My People My Country Australian Booksellers Association Book of the Year (2002) Kennedy to Donald J

Kennedy to Donald J

written largely between 1900 and 1940

The first translation of the poet's complete works when it was published in 1966

to Château de Marmouton

tea and sugar

My People My Country Australian Booksellers Association Book of the Year (2002) Kennedy to Donald JIt traces their beginning as Mesticos or Topazese, during the Portuguese era, 1511 to 1641; it relates their resistance and defience against Dutch persecution, 1641 to 1824; it describes their contribution in the development of Malaya during the British colonisation, 1824 to 1957; it reveals the atrocities they suffered during the Japanese war; their quest for Representation in an Independent Malaysia and their propensity to survive and propagate