The Keeper of My Kin: The Constant Companion Tales
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No. of Pages, 166
Shelf: FICTION / ADULT FICTION / ASIAN LITERARY FICTION
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This is the story of the keeper of my kin. It's been prescribed a life of violence which is none of its choosing. But master it we must, or else our clan shall perish.
Three separate incidents between World War 2 and the Malayan Emergency period connect the dots to reveal a sinister force haunting three generations of the Raden family.
THE RED-HAIRED GURKHAS
A ghost appears just as the Commonwealth War Graves Commission exhumes the remains of fallen World War 2 soldiers. A long-forgotten guardian reawakens to protect the Raden family and wreak havoc.
THE TIGER-MAN AND HIS CONSTANT COMPANION
An elderly relative reveals what their other family 'keeper', the Tiger-Man, did to the enemy soldiers. The price paid was too high.
THE NIGHT OF THE FLYING BLADES
The Raden children learn more about their family's dark past during the Emergency period. The flying blades are justice reserved for those betrayed by kith and kin.
About the Author
Salina Christmas is an author, journalist and anthropologist. Her series of horror fiction, The Constant Companion Tales, written and published in London, is loosely inspired by her childhood during the time of the Second Malayan Insurgency, and also by the periods between 1938 and 1966. She was born in Mentakab, Pahang, where her father's regiment was based. For the first 15 years, Christmas lived in military posts on the outskirts of jungles. Her dramatic fiction is informed by her experience in London and in Malaysia as a witness of the transition both countries had gone through.
Dimensions: 12.7 x 0.97 x 20.32 cm
