When he started publishing, Mr. Amir said, “bookshops told me Malays only read romance,religion and cooking. I thought, ‘There’s got to be more to life than that.’ His two best sellershave been “Kelabu, a racy love story in which a girl hires a fake boyfriend to make her real onejealous, and “Asrama, a horror story set in a girls’ school.
阿米尔说,自己刚开始从事出版业时,“书店老板告诉我,马来西亚人只读爱情小说、宗教书和烹饪书。我想,‘生活中还应该有其他东西。’他最畅销的两本书一本是《克拉布》(Kelabu),这是一本情色爱情小说,讲述一个女孩雇来假男友,好让她真正的男朋友妒忌,另一本名叫《阿斯拉玛》(Asrama),讲述发生在女子学校里的恐怖故事。
A rival publisher, Lejen Press, has had one of the biggest hits so far, a novel called “AwekChuck Taylor. Written in a combination of street slang and text messages, it has sold about40,000 copies, making it a superstar of independent publishing here.
阿米尔的竞争对手,勒耶出版社(Lejen Press)推出过迄今最畅销的书籍之一——《穿查克·泰勒的阿维克》(Awek Chuck Taylor)。它结合了街头俗语和手机信息语言,卖出了四万册,成为独立出版界的超级巨星。
The narrator, Hafiz, is a Malay slacker, a college dropout who is usually broke, is often profaneand recounts his adventures chasing multiple girls at the same time. “Awek is slang for girl,and Chuck Taylor refers to the Converse sneakers worn by a character who declares herself anagnostic and a fan of books on communism and anarchy.
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