There’s that quote by John Berger that everyone keeps bringing up nowadays, and that Arundhati Roy used as an epigraph: “Never again will a single story be told as though it’s the only one.” ... Malaysian history is so hybrid, so vexed, so different depending on whom you ask, that to me the *only* way to reveal that history is through individual lives. A Malaysian Indian family will have experienced a different Malaysian history than a Malay family or a Malaysian Chinese family. ... Anyway, that’s the whole purpose of fiction: to tell the big story through small stories. And that’s what I love about it. The whole thing, all of fiction since the beginning of time, has been an effort to show that History is about real people.
Anne Stameskin interviews Preeta Samarasan for Fiction Writers Review.
Don't forget to catch Preeta at MPH"s Breakfast Club tomorrow (Sat) at MPH Bangsar Village II at 11a.m., and at Seksan's at 3.30 p.m.). Full details
here.
4 comments:
Wasn't she supposed to appear on NTV7's Breakfast Show this morning? I switched on after 9 a.m. but she must've appeared earlier.
7.40 a.m.
Huh? Tinling Choong and Choong Kwee Kim both appeared after 9 a.m. when they were featured previously.
Too early ...
Was it any good?
me dunno chet. that was the message on my h/p from mph's shirley and i didn't see it until too late. how nice though that they were all featured.
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