Winner of the Epigram Books Fiction Prize 'Slick sharp . . . a joy to read' - Tash Aw author
of Five Star Billionaire Jasmine Leong is the heiress apparent to Phoenix her family's
billion-ringgit company known especially for its pork snacks. When her grandmother the great
Madame Leong unexpectedly passes away Jasmine discovers she is actually a Malay Muslim and
this newfound identity threatens to upend her life and ambitions. Finding herself at the
centre of a political controversy and caught between two men who love her Karina Robles
Bahrin's The Accidental Malay examines the human cost of a country's racial policies and paints
a portrait of a woman unwilling to accept the fate history has designated for her. 'A novel
both generous and scathing both honest and nuanced both grounded in human emotion and engaged
with history and politics' - Preeta Samarasan author of Evening Is the Whole Day
