Malay Sketches

Malay Sketches is a collection of stories that borrows its name from a book of anecdotes by colonial governor Frank Swettenham, In Alfian Sa'at's hands, these sketches are re-imagined as flash fictions that record the lives of a spectrum of vivid and unforgettable characters. With precise and penetrating prose, Malay Sketches offers the reader profound and radical insights into the realities of life as an ethnic minority in Singapore.