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Vera is an analyst who wants to find enough time outside of work to learn to love jazz. She can't. Because she's swept up into the world of a secret nation that claims to have guided world events for centuries. Who are they? Why do they think Vera is the key to saving the world? And why do they want to kill her brother?

Jasmine Leong is the heiress apparent to Phoenix, her family’s billion-ringgit company known especially for its pork snacks. When her grandmother, the great Madame Leong, unexpectedly passes away, Jasmine discovers she is actually a Malay Muslim and this newfound identity threatens to upend her life and ambitions. Finding herself at the centre of a political controversy, and caught between two men who love her, The Accidental Malay examines the human cost of a country’s racial policies and paints a portrait of a woman unwilling to accept the fate history has designated for her.

Há anos um grupo separatista da região de Barba, em Portugal, explode bombas ao redor do mundo como estratégia para conseguir a sua independência. A comunidade internacional vive aterrorizada com os atentados implacáveis e imprevisíveis e a autodeterminação de Barba é um dos temas centrais e mais quentes da política mundial. A capital, Cinzeiro, abriga jornalistas de toda parte, entre eles o recém-chegado Edgar Kellogg–advogado bem-sucedido que trocou a carreira em Nova York pelo entusiasmo e a imprevisibilidade do jornalismo.