Born and raised in Tampin, a town in southern Malaysia, this bilingual author has won awards for her Chinese prose. In 1994, she left Kuala Lumpur to study film at Glasgow University. She also has completed a PhD in creative writing.

Little Hut of Leaping Fishes appeared on a long-list for the Man Asian Literary Prize. Beautifully written, set against the backdrop of an ever-changing China, it’s an historical novel, a compelling story of childhood, family and ambition in the 19th century when the West eagerly tried to seize slices of the East.

Foreign-language rights to Little Hut of Leaping Fishes have sold for France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Lithuania.

Janet Chan
Pan Macmillan Asia, Hong Kong

(June 9, 2008)



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