Malaysian author Ho Sok Fong gains global acclaim with 'Lake Like A Mirror'

Chinese Malaysian author Ho Sok Fong writes about small town life in Malaysia in her second anthology, the first to be translated into English.

When it comes to enjoying books, we readers usually have a “reading space”, a favourite little corner or room where we can curl up with a book and escape the world. Ho Sok Fong’s favoured space when she was a child was rather unusual: outside the family washroom.

“I remember when I was nine, we would gather around the kitchen and outside the newly-built washroom and read romance stories in the newspapers,” the Malaysian Chinese-language author tells us in a recent email interview.