Pulp International - Ahmad+Murad+Nasruddin

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Pulp International - Ahmad+Murad+Nasruddin

May 28 2013

MALAYS AND ANXIETY

Example of Malaysian cover art from 1959 isn’t classically pulp, but we’ll take it.

Here’s something we found that’s a bit different than usual. It’s a copy of Nyawa di-hujong Pedang, which we gather is a pretty famous book written by a pretty famous author (Ahmad Murad Nasruddin). In English it’s called Life at the End of the Sword, it’s about the struggle against Japanese aggression circa World War II, and the year of publication was originally 1946, with this edition appearing in 1959. Perhaps the art doesn’t perfectly fit the definition of pulp, but it is international and since it’s as close to pulp as we’ve ever seen out of Malaysia we’ll expand our parameters a bit to squeeze it into the website. The art is signed, but we can’t decipher the artist’s scrawl. As a side note, you may remember we shared two amazing items from Malaysia a while back. If you missed those, they’re something you should see, and they reside here and here. We’ll have a few more Malaysian tidbits later.

Malaysia Kuala Lumpur World War II Ahmad Murad Nasruddin cover art literature

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