Tuan Room
by Hisham Abdullah
Publisher: Pagebayt Publishing (2025)
Language: English
Paperback: 218 pages
ISBN-10: 6299560525
ISBN-13: 978-6299560524
Some guests leave only stories behind.
Others leave a part of themselves.
Some never leave at all.
On a misty hill in the Far East, Cyathea Bungalow sits in quiet retreat. Once grand, now weathered and still, this colonial bungalow watches the trees and the passing of time.
In one room—the Tuan Room, named for the Malay word “Tuan,” meaning “master”—a box of old manuscripts lies tucked beneath the bed, waiting for guests curious enough to find it. Who wrote them and why, no one can say. But for those who read them, something lingers.
No one is ever certain whether they are reading the stories—or whether the stories are reading them.
Twenty interconnected stories written in the Tuan Room, where memory blurs with fiction. Here, stories confess what silence tried to keep.
