The Elephant Trophy and Other Stories
2021
First Published
4.18
Average Rating
250
Number of Pages
The Elephant Trophy and Other Stories is a collection of 18 slice-of-life short stories featuring nuanced and diverse depictions of the Indian community in Malaysia. The overall theme of this collection echoes the outer and inner demons that possess the Malaysian Indian community. Specifically, the stories dictate the outlook of their lives as both Indians and Malaysians. The collection covers themes such as socio-politics, socio-economic imbalance, gender issues, social class juxtaposed to community values.
Avg Rating
4.18
Number of Ratings
22
5 STARS
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4 STARS
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3 STARS
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Author
Paul GnanaSelvam
Author · 2 books
Paul GnanaSelvam is an Ipoh-born writer and poet whose work often focuses on the experiences, issues and identity conflicts of those in the Indian diaspora. His first collection of short stories, Latha’s Christmas and Other Stories, was published in 2013. He began to write in 2005 and continiues publishing poems and short stories both locally and internationally in e-magazines, anthologies and literary journals. His latest collection of short stories 'The Elephant Trophy & Other Stories' was published by Penguin Random House SEA in July 2021. His short story, Tug-of-War, won 2nd place in the Blue-White-Dot Short Story Writing Competition (2023) organised by Sunway University Press. He currently lectures at Universiti Teknologi MARA (Perak Campus), Malaysia.
