In the Malaysian New Straits Times Umapagan Ampikaipakan does offer Eleven for 2011, his 'best books of 2011'.
Unfortunately, it's not a very (or at all) local list, and could just as well have been found in any American periodical.
A sign of these global times, and a global book market ?
Still, quite disappointing.
He does offer some explanation in After words -- but not about the absence of any local works in the top eleven.
He does offer some explanation in After words -- but not about the absence of any local works in the top eleven.