Tuesdays With Bapak

A father taken in the middle of the night. Whisked away by very stern men under the draconian Internal Security Act (ISA). For years, the family of Tan Sri A Samad Ismail (Pak Samad) could only meet their beloved Bapak in a police station on Tuesdays.

This book holds the memories of Datuk Nuraina Samad, celebrated journalist and daughter of the influential Pak Samad as she tells the story of her family as they navigate this crisis and shed light on how it was like growing up in her large, colourful brood in the days when the histories and identities of Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia were being written by movers and shakers like Pak Samad.