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  • Categories:Literature & Fiction
  • Language:Simplified Ch.
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  • Pages:312
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  • Size:149mm×210mm
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Feature

★Malaysia’s most well-known children literature author Khor Ewe Pin;Most Popular IP for adaptation!!
★187,000 copies sold, ranked in The International Chinese Newsweekly Malaysian Bestsellers Top 10 (Book) List for 17 weeks.
★Best IP for adaptation
★Suitable for children age 11-17
★Rights Sold: TV series/Movie Adaptation (China, Japan, Korea) , Audio book (Worldwide) , TV Series Adaptation (Malaysia), Simplified Chinese language copyright sold to Mainland China.

Shi Yue’s mom leaves him some “tasks” before she passed away, and a secret about him revealed in the process of solving them! It makes him tries to escape but he has nowhere to go as there is no place to call “home” anymore.
After overcome the frustration, he finally realized what he really feels and the good will of his mom. The heart of mothers are like the ocean...

Description

Features

★Mother and child’s love brought out through a simple plot and empathy can be build up easily. Suitable for every mother and child.
★There will be cruelty on the growing of children but it is fine to let them know that “love” is something true.
★A simple story but not monotonous, suitable for beginners.

Synopsis

October, a story about Shi Yue and his mother, is Khor Ewe Pin’s second novel.

At the beginning of the novel, Shi Yue’s mother had passed away when Shi Yue was barely 15. He lived with his uncle, together with his good-hearted aunt, an antagonistic cousin brother, and a lovely cousin sister.

His mother left him several letters which were put in different places. Shi Yue had to complete task that was given by his mother in the first letter before he could proceed to open the next. What are the tasks that his mother had left for him? Can he fulfill all her wishes? All will be slowly revealed in the book.

Shi Yue found out that his mother whom had raised him for 15 years may not be his biological mother after all. He was devastated! To him, his mother maybe gone, but she still lives in his heart. If she is not his natural mother, the mother in his heart was lost as well. This thought made him even sadder. Has he got another natural mother? The answer is in the book.

Readers are guided to discover a mother’s love through words. A mother’s love cannot be shown in a few words, but it can be portrayed through a story. A mother is not a saint, she makes mistakes too, but, a mother’s love is the noblest. The story of hundred thousand words showed how deep a mother’s love is. No matter how many secrets she has or how many mistakes she had made, a mother will always be a mother. A story will end, a mother will grow old, but her loves will never stop.

Author

Khor Ewe Pin,

was born in the state of Kedah, Malaysia in the year 1955. A former teacher, he obtained his first degree in Zoology (University of Malaya), after which he pursued a postgraduate Masters in Education. He had also worked as an editor (both textbooks and others) and was a feature writer too. He started writing teenage novels in 2006. He sold the publication rights of 34 titles to Qingdao Publishing Group and Zhejiang Juvenile and Children’s Publishing House in The People’s Republic of China, to publish his books in simplified Chinese since 2010. He won the first prize in the 4th Xiang Qing Novella Writing Competition, and also came out tops to win the 1st Mahan Literary Award. In year 2020, he won the 6th Nanyang Chinese Literature Award. In year 2021, as a result of home quarantine pandemic prevention, he came to be acquainted with digital illustration. The publication of his first picture book Huha! Huha! serves to fulfill his long-standing wish to become an artist.

Awards
★Won the first prize in the 4th Xiang Qing Novella Writing Competition.
★Won the 1st Mahan Literary Award.
★Bright Times was selected as one of the Top 10 Readers' Choice of the Year (Literature) and Top 10 Virtuoso Recommendation of the Year (Literature) by Sin Chew Daily in 2008.
★A Cold Wind Blows was selected as 50 Best Malaysian Titles for International Rights 2012.
★The Boy and His Sea Turtle was selected as Suggested Reads for Youth by Read! Singapore in 2014.
★Won the 6th Nanyang Chinese Literature Award in 2020.

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