Penghulu EBRD Literature Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2018) Publication Date: 08 Nov 2011

Publication Date: 08 Nov 2011

riding freight trains two thousand miles across America – how else do 12-year-olds get to Washington D

if only to understand ourselves better

as the boys' fragile sense of order begins to collapse

As a hurricane passes through Islamorada

Penghulu EBRD Literature Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2018) Publication Date: 08 Nov 2011Pak Suleh was the penghulu of Pulau Sebidang, one of the influential village headmen of the islands of the South. Forced to relocate to a small high rise flat on mainland Singapore, he worries for the future of his family and yearns for his beloved island. A powerful meditation on loss, Penghulu is a portrait of a man struggling to return to his old way of life. But can Pak Suleh thwart the plans of his son in law, a newly elected member of parliament