马来西亚这个被称为“迷你亚洲”的国家,其多元种族、多元文化的社会特质的形成有其复杂的历史背景。从20世纪初,华人、印度人大量涌入马来亚,到1957年马来亚取得独立,这半个世纪的民族关系史从对立到融合,充满了曲折和艰辛。马来西亚第八届“国家文学家”荣誉称号得主阿卜杜拉.侯赛因,以一部长篇小说《融合》,将这五十载的苦与乐娓娓道来。这部长篇也奠定了作者在马来文坛的地位,成为其创作生涯的辉煌一笔。 Malaysia, known as the “mini-Asia,” has a complex historical background in the formation of a multi-ethnic and multicultural society. Since the early 20th century, Chinese and Indians flooded into Malaya. By the time Malaya gained independence in 1957, the history of ethnic relations in the past half century was full of twists and turns from the opposition to integration. Malaysia’s eighth “national writer” honorary title winner Abdullah Hussein, with a novel “integration”, this fifty years of bitter and enjoyable. This long chapter also laid the author’s position in the literary world of Malay and became a brilliant accomplishment in his creative career.