Sifu: An Unusual Teacher in the Turbulence of the Malayan War
ABOUT
THE BOOK
He grew up in uncertain and violent times, Even with the return of the British after the Japanese Occupation, a peaceful life was still non-existent in post-war Malaya, he was forced to join his family in suffering an uprooting from his home to a barbed-wire New Village as a government’s strategy to contain a Communist insurgency.
Having watched his father’s cold –blooded murder as ordered by an over – zealous British army officer, he knew he had to survive in order to seek vengeance. Young as he was, he also knew he couldn’t do it all on his own but has to learn from those who were able to teach him.
It was his destiny to meet the sifu- teacher or master- who would initiate him in the deadly craft of a professional assassin. But unlike many others, he wouldn’t kill indiscriminately. He killed only those who deserved to die until death come too close to him.
NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS
This novel presents Malaysian historical insight from a Chinese author’s point of view.