Eternal Summer Notes

Eternal Summer NotesEternal Summer Notes is a multilingual anthology of short stories, poems, essays, and translations inspired by the heat and humidity of Malaysias endless summer. Featuring voices from Malaysia, Ukraine, Hong Kong, China, and the USA, the collection explores selfhood through the passage of time and distance, often with a touch of humour and lightness. Born from a unique "cafe writing residency" at Pohutukawa Coffee in 2024, the anthology is a

one of the foremost Malay women writers of the past century

we are not just looking — we are reading the language of images

and East Asia

In recounting from her own life the moments of motherhood

Can we save the city - or ourselves - by taking the pavement

the oft-hapless husbands

"With my double nationality and my double upbringing

and leaves millions of people vulnerable to subjugation

a post-critical theoretical and methodological paradigm has become increasingly dominant in the human sciences

gives us a way of exploring the world around us

with its sudden gaps of wealth and security

Ravin Krishnan