Two Figures in a Car and Other Stories

Two Figures in a Car and Other Stories presents a collection of short stories set in contemporary Malaysia and Singapore, portraying the lives of the lonely, desperate, and heartbroken in morally-subjective worlds.

Two figures sit in a car, waiting to commit a crime. A young girl steals her grandmother's jade bracelet. A Malay man collects the blonde hair of a British teenager with whom he is mesmerised, and a young woman feeds human blood to a frangipani tree.

Is there really a distinction between right and wrong in this world? This compilation of fourteen stories delves into the grey and amoral lives of ordinary—and not so ordinary—Malaysians and Singaporeans striving to carve their place in the world.

Shifting between the dark hills of Penang Island, the lonely coasts of Singapore, and the cramped corners of Kuala Lumpur and Manchester, Two Figures in a Car is imbued with petty crimes, modest ambitions, and fantastical delusions.