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Omar Musa

Fierceland by Omar Musa [Trade paperback]

Fierceland by Omar Musa [Trade paperback]

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Set in Malaysian Borneo and moving between past and present, Fierceland follows siblings Rozana and Harun as they return home for their father Yusuf’s funeral and face what they have inherited. Musa writes the rainforest, the city and the family estate with crisp detail. The copy in your hands is a clean trade paperback with clear type and a firm spine, easy to read and easy to gift.

Across the novel you see how fortune was built and what it cost. Early logging upriver in the 1980s, the palm-oil boom, a disappearance that shadows every room, and adult children split between Sydney, Los Angeles and Kota Kinabalu. It reads like contemporary literary fiction with a strong sense of place and consequence. 

What you are getting

  • Format: Trade paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • ISBN: 9781926428796
  • Publication date: 2 Sep 2025
  • Condition: Brand new Penguin

Why this book matters

A family story that also reads as a reckoning with land, legacy and complicity in Borneo. It gives you a grounded view of wealth, grief and responsibility without losing momentum. If you enjoy literary fiction that is place-sure and emotionally direct, this will land.

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Blurb

How do you mourn your father when you know his secrets?

After many years abroad, Roz and Harun return to Malaysian Borneo for the funeral of their father Yusuf – and to reckon with their inheritance. A renowned palm-oil baron during Malaysia’s economic rise, Yusuf built the family’s immense wealth by destroying huge tracts of rainforest. What his children know is that he was also responsible for the violent disappearance of a man who stood in his way.

Harun has become a successful tech entrepreneur in Los Angeles, Roz is an artist struggling to stay afloat in Sydney. Now they want to return something their father stole from the forests of their homeland. In their quest for redemption they grapple with the legacy of power and corruption, dreamers and exiles, thugs and zealots. Most dangerous of all, they are haunted – by the ghosts of colonialism, the ghosts of family, the ghosts of language, and the ghosts of the forest itself.

A trailblazing journey across the globe, Fierceland weaves the past and the present into an emotionally powerful family saga that plays out at a mythical scale.

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