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The Beach is a 1996 novel by English author Alex Garland. Set in Thailand , it is the story of a young backpacker's search for a legendary, idyllic and isolated beach untouched by tourism, and his time there in its small, international community of backpackers.
The Beach is a 2000 adventure drama film directed by Danny Boyle, from a screenplay by John Hodge, based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Alex Garland. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio , Tilda Swinton , Virginie Ledoyen , Guillaume Canet , and Robert Carlyle .
On the Beach is an apocalyptic novel published in 1957, written by British author Nevil Shute after he emigrated to Australia. The novel details the experiences of a mixed group of people in Melbourne as they await the arrival of deadly radiation spreading towards them from the Northern Hemisphere, following a nuclear war some years previous.
The Woman on the Beach is a 1947 American film noir [2] directed by Jean Renoir and starring Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan, and Charles Bickford. It was released by RKO Radio Pictures . The film is a love triangle drama about Scott, a conflicted U.S. Coast Guard officer (Ryan), and his pursuit of Peggy, a married woman (Bennett).
The hikayat is a form of Malay literature that writes concerning the adventures of heroes and legends from the pre-modern time period within the Malay Archipelago (spanning modern Indonesia and Malaysia, especially in Sumatra), it may also chronicle royalties and events surrounding them. The stories they contain, though based on history, are ...
Malaysia-born American writer. Al-Sayyid Shaykh bin Ahmad al-Hadi. Considered "father of the Malay novel." Syed Husin Ali Professor, politician and author of nearly 20 books. Syed Hussein Alatas (1928-2007). Malaysian academician, sociologist, founder of social science organisations, and politician.
Turtle Beach (1981) is a novel by ... Set in 1979 the novel follows an Australian journalist who is covering the arrival in Malaysia of ethnic Chinese fleeing ...
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