{"product_id":"the-sleeper-9781066638109","title":"The Sleeper","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Kenneth Eales\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Parang Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Parang Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Asia - Southeast Asia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKenneth Eales was born in a two-up, two-down terrace in Wimbledon during the Depression, the son of a family with no money, no connections, and no particular plan. He ended his working life having run one of the largest plantation groups in Southeast Asia, survived a communist insurgency, and navigated the collapse of the British Empire from the inside.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Sleeper traces the journey between those two points with wit, candour and considerable surprise. Arriving in Malaya in 1956 as a twenty-one-year-old RAF veteran with a gift for numbers and an instinct for people, Eales spent thirty-five years learning to read cultures, politics and rooms that many of his contemporaries never tried to understand. The results\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewere sometimes spectacular, occasionally disastrous, and always illuminating.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a vanishing world rendered with hard-won authority: rubber estates and monsoon rains, corporate intrigue in Kuala Lumpur, the 1969 racial riots, a cattle farm in New South Wales that humbled him in ways the boardroom never quite managed. A British memoir of wartime London, the end of empire, and forty years in the heart of colonial and post-independence Malaysia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbove all it is the portrait of a man who was hiding in plain sight all along: watching, learning, and always finishing what he started.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Parang Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47892612087959,"sku":"9781066638109","price":1689.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781066638109.webp?v=1781187736","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-sleeper-9781066638109","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}