Ahmad Lutfi

Bangkai Bernyawa [Living corpses]. (Singapore : Qalam, 1949)

From December 1941, Japan successively invaded Hong Kong, the Philippines, Malaya, Singapore, the Netherlands East Indies and other parts of the Southeast Asian and East Asian region.

This Malay story, written in Jawi script, was written at the beginning of 1946 and depicts various incidents that occurred during the Japanese occupation of Malaya. The publisher writes in the foreword that:

It is an important historical event and [the book] reminds us of the horrors and sufferings that took place at that time… it should be remembered, studied deeply, and used as a comparison by future generations… We should feel sorry for what happened to ourselves when we were living in a time of prosperity, but we should also remember that an event such as this will happen again, perhaps during our lifetime. [Translation by Hashim Abdulhamid]

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