Smalltown Godzilla: Stories

A surreal, pathbreaking debut story collection from a contemporary Chinese Malaysian voice, exploring themes of diaspora, neocolonialism, and cultural lineage

Smalltown Godzilla introduces anglophone readers to a bold new voice in Mahua literature—a vibrant tradition of ethnic Chinese writers from Malaysia. Drawing on this diasporic lineage, Teng Kuan Kiat has crafted eight formally inventive stories, each with its own uncanny architecture. In Teng’s absurd worlds, language itself becomes an...