Adibah Amin writes about real people,people like the pak cik
down the road,Yin,her teacher-friend and Mano ,the gardener ‘s little boy.In
her inimitable styles,she weaves little stories around ordinary folk going
through life’s challenges or as would put it ,their ups and downs.But common
threadbinds them all.There is a message ,a ‘moral’ if you like,in even the
simplest of her tales.That’s what makes her anecdotes so captiving so
enduring”. – Ng Poh Tip
‘ Elegent,gracious,full of affection for her fellow
Malaysians,Adibah’s anecdotes give you not only sense of nostalgia but also a
deeper understanding of the way were.”you should get hold of both volumes and
experience for yourself howq Adibah celebrates life in its various shades and
colours and totally without prejudice .That is undoubtedly a ray of sunshine in
this cloudy climate of life-negating taboos.” -- Kee Thuan Chye
“ Adibah has a rare knack for turning the prosaic into
amusing anecdotes that appeal to both young and old .Rereading them almost
three decades later,I find them just as charming as ever .Her understanding of
human nature has rendered those tales into timeless pieces.” –Lydia The
“Adibah ‘s finely wrought prose,beautiful in its
concision,defitly captures the quirks and idiosyncrasies of Malaysians ; she
makes us laugh at all-too-human frailties ,our vanities ,our obsessions,and the
oddities of Malaysian culture (or lack there of) ,” Eric Forbes
“As I was Passing is priceless Malaysiana .It is the closest
that prose has come to the magic of Lat.When you first read it,you aglow with
the warth of nostalagia..if you are reading her books for the first time,I envy
you.- Eric Forbes
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