TBR (To Be Read): Han Suyin, a baroque novelist who blossomed in Malaya

SINGAPORE – Almost nobody in Singapore reads the novels of the late Eurasian author Han Suyin these days. This is a pity not only because the China-born writer was peerless in her baroque approach to style and genre, but also because she blossomed as a novelist in Malaya.

Between 1952 and 1964, when she worked as a doctor in Johor Bahru and Singapore and also taught a ground-breaking course on Asian literature at Nanyang University, Han published six of her 10 novels.