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Book review: Kelantan-born writer Fatimah Busu’s hard-to-find short stories are magical
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Malaysian writer Fatimah Busu's short stories are collected in An Ordinary Tale About Women And Other Stories.
PHOTOS: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE SEA
Fatimah Busu, translated by Pauline Fan
Fiction/Penguin Random House SEA/Paperback/142 pages/$24.96
In 10 formally inventive tales, Malaysian writer Fatimah Busu’s first book of short stories to appear in English tantalises with its evocative feminist mythology. The title might cause you to think otherwise, but these are rather extraordinary tales about women.
