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Political detainee's unraveling in intense, obsessive mourning.

"The Widower" could strike a chord with you if you're drawn to stories that explore the depth of human psyche. Mohamed Latiff Mohamed deftly narrates the haunting journey of a man's grief and the subsequent disintegration of his reality. Its modernist take on love and loss set within the cultural context of Malay fiction lends it a distinctive flavor that's both compelling and unsettling.

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The Widower

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ISBN: 9789814615129
Publisher: Epigram Books
Date of Publication: 2015-05-01
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.17
(rated by 47 readers)

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Shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize 2016 for English FictionFormer political detainee and professor Pak Karman loses his wife in a car accident. The intensity of his mourning starts to unhinge him. As reality, memory and fantasy become more and more blurred, he must come to terms with his past actions before his grief overwhelms him completely. Mohamed Latiff Mohamed’s novel, hailed as a landmark in modernist Malay fiction, is an unsettling tale of psychic disintegration and obsessive love.
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Political detainee's unraveling in intense, obsessive mourning.

"The Widower" could strike a chord with you if you're drawn to stories that explore the depth of human psyche. Mohamed Latiff Mohamed deftly narrates the haunting journey of a man's grief and the subsequent disintegration of his reality. Its modernist take on love and loss set within the cultural context of Malay fiction lends it a distinctive flavor that's both compelling and unsettling.