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Peninsula: A Story of Malaysia, Rehman Rashid
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Product SKU 9789671339039
Brand Fergana
Size (L x W x H) 19 cm x 14 cm x 4 cm
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Description

Peninsula is a personal memoir by Rehman Rashid that amounts to a report on the generational changes Malaysia has undergone since independence, examining their roots in the past and implications for the future, by one who lived through them.

The narrative unravels the many strands of Malaysian history and how they braided themselves into this nation as it is in the 21st century, each contributing to the whole while striving to remain true to itself.

From the Foreword, Two Breaths, the opening lines:
There are two ways to belong to a place: to be born there, and to die there.
To be born there is to have that turtle thing happen; the molecules of first-breath air soak though the alveoli of pristine lungs to infuse the blood and marrow, just as the first breathed word in each post-foetal ear activates the brain, imprinting permanently. To die there is to have the last breath returned to that air, and mortal remains reabsorbed into that soil or scattered upon those winds and waters.
It is remarkable that these two breaths should matter more than all those in between.
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REHMAN RASHID (1955 – 2017) was a prominent Malaysian journalist and writer. Born in Taiping, Perak, Rehman studied in the Malay College Kuala Kangsar, before pursuing a degree in Marine Biology at University College Swansea in Wales. He was well known at University for writing folk songs and performing them at every opportunity.

Rehman became a journalist in 1981. Prior to this, he worked with the Fisheries Research Institute in Penang and as a research associate with the Faculty of Fisheries and Marine Science of Universiti Putra Malaysia.After seven years as Leader Writer and columnist with the New Straits Times, Malaysia's leading English-language daily, he joined Asiaweek magazine in Hong Kong as a Senior Writer. From there, he left for a year in Bermuda, as a Senior Writer with the Bermuda Business magazine, before returning home to Malaysia to complete the book A Malaysian Journey.

He was the Malaysian Press Institute's Journalist of the Year for 1985, and Bermuda's Print Journalist of the Year for 1991.