One of the pens behind the press
Tan Li Wei
Short stories · Local life · Salt, coffee and coastlines
Li Wei writes the stories happening two tables away: the kopitiam at closing time, the coast road at dawn, the conversations everyone hears and nobody remembers. Small stories, told close to the skin, that stay with you longer than they took to read.
8 books in print · 12 journal pieces
Novel & FictionShort StoriesSci-Fi & FantasyMystery & ThrillerKids & Family
Books by Tan Li Wei
Durian Season
Novel & Fiction
The Night Market at the Edge of the Rain
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
The Shadows He Never Carved
Mystery & Thriller
Kopitiam Stories, Vol. 3
Nine more mornings from the tables of Kedai Kopi Wah Seng
Kopitiam Stories, Vol. 2
Nine more mornings from the small corner shop where breakfast is never only breakfast
The Rain Collector of Kampung Semilir
Kids & Family
Salt and Starlight
Eight tales from coastlines where the sea keeps older promises than the land
Kopitiam Stories, Vol. 1
Nine stories overheard, half imagined, and pressed straight from Malaysia's coffee shop tables
Tan Li Wei in the journal
- The umbrella at the end of the coast road
- A reader asks why nothing ever happens in my stories
- The kopi that waits for a man who is always late
- Seven things the kopitiam knows before the town wakes up
- The morning the rain took the corner table
- The boat that is always last in
- The barber who does not ask what I want
- The man who mends shoes
- Small things noticed before the coffee came
- Under the awning
- First light at the stall
- In defence of the reread