Sensuous Horizons: Stories and Plays

The four short stories in this collection bear all the hallmarks of Maniam the poetic visionary. The inclusion here of two of his most popular plays, The Cord, a folkloric melodrama and The Sandpit, a chilling dissection of a marital triangle, also reveal him to be an accomplished dramatist. Both plays deal with the interior lives of men and women who form uneasy alliances with their pasts and with each other. The works are thematically linked and represent a new departure for the author as he explores the darker side of the Malaysian psyche.