Buku Fixi

Shih-Li KOW

This cross-genre collection of twenty-five short stories and flash fiction pieces explores relationships and periods of transition.
A mother questions the limits of her responsibility to her husband and son. A man operates a leaf blower during Chinese New Year, leading to tragic consequences. In speculative stories, a demolition worker dreams of clean air while Kuala Lumpur decays, and a cooking robot attempts to perfect its fried rice for a grieving family.
These characters navigate displacement and uncertainties in pursuit of better lives.
By the award-winning author of Ripples and Other Stories and the novel The Sum of Our Follies, this new collection boldly imagines scenarios we can only dream of – while subtly tethering us to Malaysian realities we can only sigh at.

Shih-Li Kow is the author of two short story collections and a novel. Ripples and Other Stories was shortlisted for the 2009 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Her second book, The Sum of Our Follies, is also available in Italian, French and Bulgarian. The French edition (tr. Frederic Grellier) won the 2018 Prix du Premier Roman Étranger. Her latest collection is Bone Weight and Other Stories. She lives in Kuala Lumpur.

256 pages - US$12.50 - ISBN: 978-967-0042-88-6
Short Stories

Nadia KHAN

“The road less traveled really is hard. There’s no map, no manual. It’s just you trying to figure things out as you go along, all the while hoping you don’t lose yourself or your humanity.”
After suffering from a tragedy, Abby picks up the pieces of her broken self while still being plagued by the consequences of her impulsive actions. But words from the millennial bible – “Adulting is hard” – follow her like a curse as she struggles to not fall into the trap of bad decisions.
Children We Never Had is a story of profound loss and interesting findings.

Nadia Khan is an ex-doctor, psychologist and lecturer who is now living the dream as an author, screenwriter and filmmaker. She lives a low-maintenance life in Shah Alam with her soulmate and is constantly in a dilemma between travelling the world and owning a cat. In 2024 she made her film directing debut with The Musketeer Code, adapted from her own bestselling novel Gantung and its sequel.

252 pages - US$13.15 - ISBN: 9789670042695
Fiction / Contemporary Romance

Deric EEE

KL NOIR: MAGIC marks the resurrection of the notorious KL Noir series. The editor Deric Ee selects 20 original stories that bring you through the crimes and tribulations of life in Kuala Lumpur. There will be a bar hostess with a secret, a crisis in a minibus, well-dressed pontianaks, junkies discovering a new high, vampire slayers, and even an honest taxi driver. This time round, redemption may no longer be such an elusive thing.

Deric Ee is a writer, editor, and arts manager with a background in event pro-duction. He developed his skills through stints at creative agency Keepers Stu-dio, arts and culture publication The Daily Seni, placemaking consultancy lab-DNA, and the 9^th George Town Literary Festival. He is a Committee Member of PEN Malaysia.

288 pages - US$12.15 - ISBN: 9789672328483
Fiction Anthology / Crime