KUALA LUMPUR -- Bernice Chauly, a prominent figure in Malaysia's literary scene, looked relieved as she reflected on her six-year journey to become a fiction author. "Everything about writing a novel," she said emphatically, "is difficult."
Her debut, "Once We Were There," is a racy, dark and sexually frank political novel set in Kuala Lumpur during the bleak years of the Reformasi era, a unique period in Malaysia's contemporary history.
