Interlok gets its history wrong

comments     Terence Netto     Published     Updated

COMMENT Potential readers of ‘Interlok’, the Malay literature text presently the subject of raging controversy, may no longer be that keen to procure copies after having searched in vain for them at popular bookstores before the school term began 11 days ago.

This is because excerpts secreted in web news portals and newspaper columns the last few days suggest the novel has got some things pretty drastically wrong...

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