Book Review: The Best of Malaysian Short Fiction in English 2010-2020, Exploring the Faculty of Malaysia’s Fictioneers

By Yee Heng Yeh

May 2023 BOOK REVIEW
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WHAT MAKES A short story successful? In reading The Best of Malaysian Short Fiction in English 2010-2020 (which, as an aside, has a really gorgeous cover), I found my own answer to this question shifted and challenged with every new encounter – each of the 19 stories seems to answer this particular question in its own way.To feel like a story is successful, we must first have a sense of what it sets out to do before we are able...

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Yee Heng Yeh

is a writer and Mandarin-to-English translator whose work has been featured in The KITA! Podcast, adda, Strange Horizons, NutMag, Nashville Review and Guernica. You can find him on Twitter at @ HengYeh42.

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