Description
Malaysia is the pendant to three overwhelming cultures: those of India, China, Islam. She is also anglicised; and she is a nation of the third world fast developing into anonymous modernity. Yet still this peninsular contrives to call her soul her own.
In The House of the Arousing, John Toft explores certain reaches of that soul. This sequence of stories, fictional, yet drawn from his own experiences in the Far East, records his personal and subjective responses to Malaysia and also seeks to shed light upon it for the benefit of his readers.
Against the background of the many influences that have created this complicated and lovely country, he has identified ancient memorials, modern contradictions and abiding powers. He has composed an affectionate, yet searching tribute to a fascinating people and to the complex beliefs that stir them.
Readers who have enjoyed Mr Toft's Staffordshire novels, The Bargees and The Wedge, will be delighted to meet him on this exotic ground.
ISBN: 0491010028
