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Winner of the Epigram Books Fiction Prize
Slick sharp a joy to read Tash Aw author of Five Star Billionaire
Jasmine Leong is the heiress apparent to Phoenix her familys billionringgit company known especially for its pork snacks When her grandmother the great Madame Leong unexpectedly passes away Jasmine discovers she is actually a Malay Muslim and this newfound identity threatens to upend her life and ambitions
Finding herself at the centre of a political controversy and caught between two men who love her Karina Robles Bahrins The Accidental Malay examines the human cost of a countrys racial policies and paints a portrait of a woman unwilling to accept the fate history has designated for her
A novel both generous and scathing both honest and nuanced both grounded in human emotion and engaged with history and politics Preeta Samarasan author of Evening Is the Whole Day
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