Masturah Alatas
Masturah Alatas
Masturah Alatas is the author of a tale about climate change, The Girl Who Made It Snow in Singapore (Ethos Books, 2008) and The Life in the Writing (Marshall Cavendish, 2010), a memoir-biography of Malaysian sociologist, Syed Hussein Alatas, who was also her father. Born in Singapore, she worked as a journalist in Malaysia before moving to Italy in 1992 where she teaches English at the Univerity of Macerata. A regular contributor to Counterpunch, Masturah has completed a novel and is working on another.
- Will the Flower Slip Through the AsphaltINR 175
With the earth and its inhabitants under more pressure than ever before, and with bona fide climate change deniers in the most powerful positions on the planet, reading this book is essential. It ...
Jonathan Bignell
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