Well, not really. But it would have made a great tagline if the world’s most powerful man had visited our columnist’s favourite bookstore in Malaysia.
MY former colleagues at Kinokuniya Bookstores in Malaysia had a wishful and wistful thought recently: that Mr Obama would make an unannounced visit to the store during his brief stay in Malaysia last month. I don’t blame them because we booksellers do always have outlandish dreams, though I would much prefer to call it a hope – the audacity of hope, in Barack Obama’s words.