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Slow Boat to China and Other Stories by Carlos Rojas, Ng Kim Chew

rmtbray's review

3.0

This collection of short stories did take me a little while to get into, because (as could be expected from a professor cum author), they're pretty dense and often quite meta, so not ideal for sleepy-brained bedtime reading. Once I got dug in, however, they were really interesting, and about a sector of the world (ethnically Chinese Malaysians) I've never read about before. The translator's introduction was also really helpful in linking together patterns etc through the stories.

Thanks to Netgalley for the chance to read this!