A review by mrswythe89
Malaysian Tales: Retold & Remixed by Zed Adam Idris, Rehman Rashid, O Thiam Chin, Janet Tay, Ho Lee-Ling, Preeta Samarasan, Kee Thuan Chye, Daphne Lee, Jeremy Chin, Amir Muhammad, Ann Lee, M. Shanmughalingam, Fazlyn Abdul Malek, Adèle Geras, Karina Bahrin

3.0

Bumped up to 3 stars for the brilliant cover. I really intensely wanted to like this. The stories I remember most are the two Preeta Samarasan ones ("Si Tanggang" and "Mahsuri"; I liked "Mahsuri" better -- notwithstanding any issues I had with both stories, Samarasan is a writer fully in control of her craft) and the Zed Adam Idris story, "Batu Belah", which reminded me a bit of Geoff Ryman. Creepy robot monkeys and sticky human-ish relationships. Also totally random endings!

I hope there are more local anthologies with similar themes.