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seeyf's review
3.0
Even though Malaysia is Singapore's closest neighbour, I don't remember learning much about Malaysian history in school, so this was a welcome read. This is not a comprehensive history, but is one that is filtered through Rashid's experience as a journalist writing about the country from both within it and abroad. Amidst anecdotes of friends, lovers and politicians, the book tries to untangle and explain the many threads that shape today's Malaysia: colonialism, the bumiputra policy, variants of Islam, corruption, language, and what it means to be Malaysian.
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