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The Widower

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“This novel marks a significant milestone in the development of the contemporary Malay novel.” —Dewan Sastera (Malaysia)

Former political detainee and professor Pak Karman loses his wife in a car accident. The intensity of his mourning starts to unhinge him. As reality, memory and fantasy become more and more blurred, he must come to terms with his past actions before his grief overwhelms him completely. Mohamed Latiff Mohamed’s novel, hailed as a landmark in modernist Malay fiction, is an unsettling tale of psychic disintegration and obsessive love.

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“This novel marks a significant milestone in the development of the contemporary Malay novel.” —Dewan Sastera (Malaysia)

Former political detainee and professor Pak Karman loses his wife in a car accident. The intensity of his mourning starts to unhinge him. As reality, memory and fantasy become more and more blurred, he must come to terms with his past actions before his grief overwhelms him completely. Mohamed Latiff Mohamed’s novel, hailed as a landmark in modernist Malay fiction, is an unsettling tale of psychic disintegration and obsessive love.

 

Publisher: Epigram Books

Paperback

2015

ISBN: 9789814615129

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