A review by sannereadstheworld
Rawa by Isa Kamari, R. Krishnan

Did not finish book.

1.0

I started reading this, because the cover promised a story about the orang seletar, an ethnic group living as sea nomads in the straits of what is now Singapore. That sounded like a wonderful and unusual subject. While the story of Rawa, the main character, isn't written in the most literary prose, the story was interesting enough to keep me going until half-way in the book. At that point, the author starts with some political exposé literally out of nowhere. That was so off-putting, I put the book down. I don't read fiction to get to an opinion piece about politics.