The Shadows He Never Carved

About this book

Pak Su Din has been a dalang for sixty years. When an unknown village puppet appears in his chest and compels a story he has never heard, a drowned Kelantan valley begins to speak through the screen. Night by night, his grandson, a retired teacher and the descendant of a man who profited from an old injustice uncover why eight families disappeared from the compensation roll, and why Din himself has never told the tale. The last debt is settled through naming, aloud and in public, with a lamp behind a white cloth.