We asked a few Malaysian literary personalities to recommend a book that celebrates romance.
“I discovered this book by accident, fell in love and have since read every one of Elif Shalak’s books. Very simplistically, it is a beautiful story of love and spirituality that is set in two narratives – one in a contemporary American house where 40-year-old Ella is disillusioned with her mundane life and the other is set in 13th century Iran tracing the relationship between the Shams of Tabriz and the poet Rumi.
“For me it was a weighty book that unpacked so many emotions that it sat with me long after I turned the last page. And it was one I gifted and paid forward to friends and family.”Karina Robles Bahrin picks“My favourite of Marquez’s work, this is a story of love in all its iterations. Epic in scale, it examines love through the lens of undying devotion juxtaposed against love in the real world, passion versus pragmatism, loyalty versus infidelity and all the shades in between.
“Read it and get your heart broken, mended and broken all over again, only to realize that happy endings can come in all guises. This is no mere love story. It is bigger than that. It is love writ large and an examination of how it is such an essential and defining aspect of the human experience.”Lauren Ho picks“For Valentine’s Day I recommend this fantasy novel by fellow Malaysian author Sue Lynn Tan.
“Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann, two of the most outstanding post-World War II poets of the German language, first met in Vienna in May 1948. Soon after their first encounter, Bachmann described her room as a“field of poppies”, engulfed by the blood red flowers Celan had sent her.
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