Neverness

There are obscure emotions that reside in every one of us, where language cannot reach, because its waters are too deep. A lot was going on in 1979. Most Malay villages were long gone or in their dying days. Malay rock began its unstoppable rise with the emergence of its first influential rock band, while drugs were just across the street. And on one Friday night that year, during the final months in the life of the once major Malay village of Engku Aman in Geylang Serai, 15-year-old Alia left her house and vanished without a trace. In the aftermath of her disappearance, the protective layers in the lives of three other young people who knew her begin unpeeling as they struggle to make sense of her disappearance and their lives in a period of immense social and cultural change.


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Reviews

Neverness is the shawl that is blown by the winds of transience … yet precious as the golden bracelet of lost memories of a bygone era that was Engku Aman. — Isa Kamari, Novelist & Cultural Medallion Recipient

Absorbing, evocative and written with passion yet with restraint. — Tan Pin Pin, Film Director


A powerful excavation of the hidden histories of a kampung near Geylang Serai. — Philip Holden, scholar of Singapore and Southeast Asian Literature

AUTHORS

Fairoz Ahmad