Comparing Values Across Space and Time

By Yong-Yu Huang

April 2022 PENANG MONTHLY BOOK REVIEW
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Book review: 912 Batu Road (Clarity Publishing 2021)912 BATU ROAD is novelist Viji Krishnamoorthy’s literary debut. It tells the harrowing tale of love and loss between two families, the Tans and the Iyers, over a span of 60 years. Two narrative strands weave the story; the first centres on struggles during the Japanese invasion of Malaya, while the second revolves around an interracial love story mired in prejudice and tradition.The first pages describe chilling violence in wartime Penang, and the...

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Yong-Yu Huang

is a Taiwanese student based in Penang. She doesn’t know where she’s headed, but she hopes there’ll be tea.

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