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The Midnight Children

A Vanishing

Tunku Halim

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English
Penguin Random House SEA
26 August 2021
What do you do

when strange things happen around you?

The

Midnight Children trilogy is a series of dark fantasy novels for children age

8-13 combining Asian mythology and Gothic elements.

The characters,

ten-year-old Min and twelve-year-old Zak are the main protagonists. In The

Midnight Children- A Vanishing, Zak and Min's father mysteriously disappears

at breakfast and curious things then begin to happen to them. Min encounters

two small creatures with spider-like legs, a doll that runs, talks and steals

and Shaz, the shaman, who gives her a box with a finger bone inside. Zak is

chased by a strange man on all fours in the shopping mall, flees from snakes

that interrupt his homework and is visited by a ghostly old lady in his

bedroom who happens to love matcha ice cream.

Trying to find their father,

they are transported to an eerie world called the Moonlight Lands where oily

creatures want to kidnap and eat them. The novel concludes with Zak vanishing

one night during dinner.
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Imprint:   Penguin Random House SEA
Country of Publication:   Singapore
Dimensions:   Height: 197mm,  Width: 130mm,  Spine: 14mm
Weight:   130g
ISBN:   9789814914215
ISBN 10:   9814914215
Pages:   128
Publication Date:  
Recommended Age:   From 9 to 12 years
Audience:   Children/juvenile ,  English as a second language
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Tunku Halim was born in 1964. He is dubbed as Asia's Stephen King and by delving into Malay myth, legends and folklore, his writing is often regarded as 'World Gothic'. His novel, Dark Demon Rising (1997), was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award whilst his second novel, Vermillion Eye (2000), is used as a study text in The National University of Singapore's Language and Literature course. He has also won first prize in a Fellowship of Australian Writers' short story competition and has had three consecutive wins in Malaysia's Popular-Star Readers' Choice Awards between 2015 and 2017. His short-story collections include-The Rape of Martha Teoh & Other Chilling Stories (1997), BloodHaze- 15 Chilling Tales (1999), The Woman Who Grew Horns and Other Works (2001), 7 Days to Midnight (2013) and The Rape of Nancy Ng - 13 Nightmares (2018). His other novels include Juriah's Song (2008), Last Breath (2014) and A Malaysian Restaurant in London (2015). His non-fiction books include A Children's History of Malaysia (2003), History of Malaysia-A Children's Encyclopedia (2009) and a biography of his late father, A Prince Called ""Charlie"" (2018). Tunku Halim's collection of short horror stories, published by Penguin Random House SEA in 2019, Scream to the Shadows, was a best seller in Singapore and Malaysia.

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