After thirty five years, Max Wheeler, an American photographer, visited Diamond Creeks, Malaysia to see his Malay wife, an artist, and his green-eyed son J, whom he had never seen. Told from the point of view of J, who was born in Austin, Texas, where his parents were students, this novel depicts the misfortunes Max Wheeler, J and Sukuni, a green-eyed original boatman, encountered when they were to spend a few days in the Belum Jungle. Flying on his paraglide, Max Wheeler was commissioned to take aerial shots of the mountains for the National Geographic. In a freak accident, Max Wheeler was incapacitated, compelling J and Sukuni to care for him, under dire circumstances. The forced proximity in the stockade J built to keep out a menacing white tiger, unleashed their mutual antagonisms. After several failed attempts they made it out of the jungle. Chastened, they struggles to accept each other as members of a family. An American, aloof and haughty, a Malay, hesitant and confused, and Orang Asli, suspicious and resentful, they yielded to learning the meaning of humility the Belum jungle had taught them?
The Stockade
Literature, MalaysianaZakaria Ali
2023. Kedai Hitam Putih
Softcover, 18 cm x 12 cm, 218 pages
ISBN 9789671872222
RM30.00
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