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Kampung Boy

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Kampung Boy is a favorite of millions of readers in Southeast Asia. With masterful economy worthy of Charles Schultz, Lat recounts the lifetime of Mat, a Muslim boy growing up in rural Malaysia within the 1950s: his adventures and mischief-making, fishing trips, biblical studies, and work on his circle of relatives’s rubber plantation. Meanwhile, the traditional way of living in his village (or kampung) is ceaselessly disappearing, with tin mines and factory jobs regularly replacing circle of relatives farms and rubber small-holders. When Mat himself leaves for boarding school, he can handiest hope that his familiar kampung will still be there when he returns. Kampung Boy is hilarious and affectionate, with brilliant, super-expressive artwork that opens a window into a global that has now just about vanished.

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