Tale of the Dreamer's Son

English-language original by Malaysian author, for readers of Zadie Smith, Kiran Desai and Arundhati Roy

The author's debut novel Evening Is The Whole Day was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2009 and sold 2,500 copies in hardcover and another 2,500 in paperback on BookScan

Evening Is The Whole Day received starred reviews from Booklist and Library Journal and a glowing review from the NYT: "A delicious first novel Samarasan's fabric is gorgeous."

Evening Is the Whole Day won the Hopwood Novel Award, was a finalist for the Commonwealth Writers Prize 2009, and was on the longlist for the Orange Prize for Fiction

Tale of the Dreamer's Son is set in Malaysia in the 1970s, early 1980s and the present day

A small, isolated, cult-like community attempts to ignore all differences in race and religion and create the ideal Malaysia, a country where equality, friendship and tolerance reign until a mysterious death sets off a police investigation and the community falls apart

The idealistic efforts fail when faced with the harsh reality of Malaysian ethnic and religious tensions during the global Islamic revival movement

A sweeping view of Malaysia's history and an investigation of the psychology of cults

A suspenseful and colorful novel of the rivalry between two half-brothers, both striving for their father's love, until fate strikes and the community falls apart.

Preeta Samarasan was born and raised in Malaysia, but moved to the United States in high school. She received her MFA from the University of Michigan and was the recipient of the Asian American Writer's Workshop/Hyphen Magazine short-story award

Preeta attended high school at the United World College USA, and Hamilton College. She was enrolled in a Ph.D program in musicology at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester. She now lives in France

Her short fiction and nonfiction has been published in the Asian Literary Review, Five Chapters, Hyphen, the Michigan Quarterly Review, EGO Magazine, and A Public Space

Author has a professionally designed, English-language website: http://preetasamarasan.com/

The author supports independent bookstores and hopes her readers will too. In Malaysia, where the government controls all newspapers and one large bookselling chain, independent bookstores play a crucial role in supporting and promoting dissenting voices

Recent essays by author: o https://agnionline.bu.edu/essay/wagers o https://themarkaz.org/the-short-happy-life-of-shirley-thompson/

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