A sharp social message masquerading as a courtly love story, Keris Mas’s first story, translated by Chang Shih Yen here, already showed his political leanings and literary gifts.
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In this story “Celebrating Eid at Grandmother’s Grave,” by Malaysia’s first National Laureate Keris Mas, translated by Chang Shih Yen, a woman tries to get a red shirt for her child so that he can celebrate Eid like the other children.
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