Penghulu EBRD Literature Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2018) one of the best-known and

one of the best-known and best-loved books on art ever written

From a natural storyteller

a mythology has grown up around the family and its firms

as the boys' fragile sense of order begins to collapse

there is continuing debate on how the war has been remembered or

Penghulu EBRD Literature Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2018) one of the best-known andPak 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