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Confrontation: A Novel Condition:Very Good The deceptively simple question ofSelected by The Business Times as one of the Best Books of 2013Adi loves his life in the kampung: climbing the ancient banyan tree, watching ten cent movies with his friends, fetching worms for the village bomoh. The residents of Kampung Pak Buyung may not have many material goods, but their simple lives are happy. However, looming on the horizon are political upheaval, race riots, gang wars and the Konfrontasi with Indonesia. Mohamed Latiff Mohamed,