About The Author

Kam Raslan is a writer and director, working in film, TV and theatre in Malaysia. He is a columnist in The Edge weekly and Off the Edge magazine. His writings were previously compiled in Generation: A Collection of Contemporary Malaysian Ideas. He also writes for the Instant Cafe Theatre and will one day make his own feature film.

Confessions of an Old Boy: The Dato' Hamid Adventures is Kam's first book and is available at major bookstores in Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei, and is also available online at Amazon.com

If you wish to contact Kam Raslan, email to:
kam at kamraslan dot com.

Confessions of an Old Boy: The Dato' Hamid Adventures

• About The Book
• More Reviews
• Exposé on the Old Boy
• Purchase Online
• News Archive
• NEW!Kam Raslan's Talking Edge

Downloads

Download the following samples from the book in PDF format:

• Chapter 1, "A Letter to a Newspaper"
• Chapter 2, "Bikers"
• Chapter 3, "Dato' in Love"
• Chapter 4, "The Beat Generation"
• Chapter 5, "Ariff and Capitalism"
• Chapter 6, "Murder in Parit Chindai"
• Chapter 7, "The Malayans"

Kam Raslan: News, Readings and Other Appearances

• Kam and Dato' Hamid on the cover of Off The Edge
• Kam at the 6th MPH Breakfast Club for LitBloggers
• The artist as iconoclast
• Lessons from History
• Kam interviewed in The Jakarta Post
• Kam at Ubud Writers & Readers Festival 2007, 25 - 30 September 2007
• Reading at the new Times Bookstore in Pavilion
• Kam Raslan on reading, writing, censorship and a certain Man Booker Prize winner at the the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival 2007 Website Exclusive!
• Kam in Singapore

Kam Raslan's Confessions of an Old Boy: The Dato' Hamid Adventures (ISBN 978 983 3445 00 4) was first serialized in Off the Edge magazine and is published by Marshall Cavendish Editions, an imprint of Marshall Cavendish International.