{"product_id":"singa-pura-pura-malay-speculative-fiction-from-singapore","title":"Singa-Pura-Pura: Malay Speculative Fiction from Singapore","description":"\u003ch2 style=\"background-color: #6ba292; color: #ffffff; padding: 8px 12px; border-radius: 4px; font-weight: bold;\"\u003eSynopsis\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom a future of electronic doas and AI psychotherapists, sense-activated communion with forests and a portal to realms undersea, to a reimagined origin and afterlife—editor and translator Nazry Bahrawi brings together an exciting selection of never-before translated and new Malay spec-fic stories by established and emerging writers from Singapore. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEspecially in an anglophone-dominated genre, very little of Malay speculative fiction from Singapore is known to readers here and beyond. Yet contemporary Bahasa literature here is steeped in spec-fic writing that can account as a literary movement (aliran)—and unmistakably draws from the minority Malay experience in a city obsessed with progress.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"background-color: #6ba292; color: #ffffff; padding: 8px 12px; border-radius: 4px; font-weight: bold;\"\u003eAbout The Author\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNazry Bahrawi\u003c\/strong\u003e is a literary translator, critic and academic. He translates to introduce Anglophone readers to the rich tradition of Bahasa literature. Trained in comparative literature, Nazry specialises in the study of non-material cultures through literary texts and films of the Malay Archipelago as part of the Indian Ocean cultural sphere. He is an editor-at-large at Wasafiri magazine and the essay \u0026amp; research editor for Journal of Practice, Research and Tangential Activities (PR\u0026amp;TA).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ethos Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49379262497027,"sku":null,"price":71.0,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0777\/3146\/3427\/files\/Singa-Pura-Pura-1.webp?v=1785998918","url":"https:\/\/grassrootsbookroom.com\/products\/singa-pura-pura-malay-speculative-fiction-from-singapore","provider":"草根书室","version":"1.0","type":"link"}