After Long Rainy Afternoons: Of Taiping And Her People
Author: Liew Suet Fun
ISBN: 9789671968123
RM80.00
PublisherGERAK BUDAYAPublication DateFormat PaperbackWeight No. of Pages 1461
Here is the unfolding of a small Malaysian town, whose history mirrors the story of a nation. At once sweeping and intimate, After Long Rainy Afternoons pulls a fine thread through momentous events and the personal stories of her people, weaving them together to create a tapestry of past, present and future.
Beginning with an exploration of its landscape, After Long Rainy Afternoons takes you on a journey from the early times to the transformation of Larut into Taiping during the tin-mining, colonial era, the period of the Second World War and subsequent years into the present.
Here are the Chinese kapitans, a charcoal kiln owner, the descendant of Perak’s exiled chieftain, the fifth generation chee cheong fun vendor, the banker turned grocer, the antique dealer whose stories are intertwined with the Taiping-born author’s experiences. They are amongst the cast of people who made the Taiping of yesterday and shape her future. It is a human story as perennial as the rains that curtain her landscape, as old as the hills that hold her within their embrace.
Beginning with an exploration of its landscape, After Long Rainy Afternoons takes you on a journey from the early times to the transformation of Larut into Taiping during the tin-mining, colonial era, the period of the Second World War and subsequent years into the present.
Here are the Chinese kapitans, a charcoal kiln owner, the descendant of Perak’s exiled chieftain, the fifth generation chee cheong fun vendor, the banker turned grocer, the antique dealer whose stories are intertwined with the Taiping-born author’s experiences. They are amongst the cast of people who made the Taiping of yesterday and shape her future. It is a human story as perennial as the rains that curtain her landscape, as old as the hills that hold her within their embrace.
