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The 2011 Award

 

Kheng-Hor

SIFU: An Unusual Teacher in the Turbulence of the Malayan War

by Khoo Kheng-Hor

 

 

 

Nominated by:

  • National Library of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur

 

Publisher of Nominated Edition:

Pelanduk Publications, Malaysia

 

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ABOUT THE BOOK

 
 Death was an old companion for him.

He grew up in uncertain and violent times, Even with the return of the British after the Japanese Occupation, a peaceful life was still non-existent in post-war Malaya, he was forced to join his family in suffering an uprooting from his home to a barbed-wire New Village as a government’s strategy to contain a Communist insurgency.

Having watched his father’s cold –blooded murder as ordered by an over – zealous British army officer, he knew he had to survive in order to seek vengeance. Young as he was, he also knew he couldn’t do it all on his own but has to learn from those who were able to teach him.
It was his destiny to meet the sifu- teacher or master- who would initiate him in the deadly craft of a professional assassin. But unlike many others, he wouldn’t kill indiscriminately. He killed only those who deserved to die until death come too close to him.

(From Publisher).

 
ABOUT THE AUTHOR


Khoo Kheng-Hor is probably Malaysia’s most prolific author.

He “hung-up his sword” in 1999 at the age of 43 for semi-retirement from the corporate “battlefield” to live in his mountain sanctuary with his wife, Judy, and “four-legged son”, Bandit. But after Judy was called home by the Lord on December 19, 2007, he brought Bandit to live for a while in Penang.  The rest of his time, he works on his current novel- his published novels are Taikor (nominated for the 2006 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award), Mamsan and Nanyang.


LIBRARIANS' COMMENTS

This novel presents Malaysian historical insight from a Chinese author's point of view.

 

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