Reviews for The Malayan Trilogy

The average rating for The Malayan Trilogy based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-08-29 00:00:00 Joan Caulton [and then abandons her (hide spoiler)]

Review # 2 was written on 2011-07-28 00:00:00 Tony Garcia How odd is it that a foreigner describes my country more wholly and better than any Malaysian writer I've read? It may boil down to my not having read enough local authors, but I think it is because racial prejudices and connotations still run so deep and is ingrained in the Federal Constitution that fear of censorship, backlash and prison now stop us Malaysians from writing about our not so beloved country as is. Like Lim Cheng Po, many of us scorn our mother tongues and put on unfamiliar accents, not knowing that this means refusal to understand the (now more than) three main cultures in Malaysia. Even I as a Eurasian will not be able to describe Malaysia so fully and objectively as Burgess, because I too will be self-censoring myself so as not to offend. A beautiful work that has shown that nothing, NOTHING has changed since we gained independence, except maybe increased cynicism and hate for our nation. Its sad and so true (even the comedic scenes).