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...Kuala Lumpur MALAYSIA...
...Carey quotes original documents from the scandal extensively but updates the action to the early '70s and transports a now lone hoaxer, Christopher Chubb, to Kuala Lumpur. The book's narrator (and Chubb's hoaxee) is Sarah Wode-Douglass, editor of a highbrow literary review based in London. When Chubb shows her a single page of verse written by Bob McCorkle (the novel's Ern Malley), Wode-Douglass becomes obsessed with publishing work bearing his name. The mainspring of Carey's story is a fascinating statement by Max Harris, editor of Angry Penguins, years after the original hoax was exposed...
...setting in Kuala Lumpur before the gleaming malls and the luxury hotels were built gives My Life as a Fake a pungent, sweaty reality that enlivens most of its pages. But when the action quits Malaysia, Carey wanders into fairyland, as in an inaccurate reference to "religious police" in Bali arresting people on the streets during Ramadan?apparently a confusion of the Muslim fasting month with the Balinese Hindu feast of Nyepi, a single day of sequestration and introspection. Although observance of Nyepi is enforced by temple authorities, Indonesia, unlike Malaysia, does not have religious police. Yet none of these...
...widely seen as anti-Semitic, Mahathir has remained unrepentant. The furor, which included what President George W. Bush said was a personal rebuke when the two met at a summit in Bangkok (something Mahathir denied), began when the former physician told a group of Islamic leaders meeting in Kuala Lumpur that "Jews...
...Kuala Lumpur: Lanson Place, tel: (60-3) 4253 2888, is located near the Petronas Towers and includes family-friendly features such as a pool and a playground. Two-bedroom flats begin at $1,450 a month...