"In 1969, in the wake of Malaysia's deadliest race riots, a woman named Du Li An secures her place in society by marrying a gangster; in a parallel narrative, a critic known as the Fourth Person explores the work of a writer also named Du Li An; in a third storyline, "you" are reading a novel titled The Age of Goodbyes in the wake of your mother's death. Li Zi Shu's debut novel THE AGE OF GOODBYES explores what happens to memory when official accounts...