我的童年、我的少年、我的中年,都是由书砌成的。我诞生于马来西亚北部一个美丽的小镇怡保,就在那儿,度过了我生命里的最初八年。第二次世界大战结束后,我的父亲在怡保创办了一家称作“迅报”的小报社。这是一份“曲高和寡”的报纸,父亲不肯随俗,更不肯媚俗,结果呢,读者和他的经费一样,越来越少;最后,终于闭门大吉了。 My childhood, my boyhood, my middle age are made of books. I was born in Ipoh, a beautiful town in northern Malaysia, where I spent the first eight years of my life. After the end of World War II, my father founded a small newspaper called “Xun Bao” in Ipoh. This is a “highbrow” newspaper, his father refuses to follow the trend and refuses to be vulgar. As a result, the readership is less and less like his expenses. Finally, the eventual closure is over.