1515

Malaysian Literature Series

1515 – Attack the court and kingdom of Melaka? Portugal is surely courting death!

1515 – A revered date for the Malay race, not for the white Bengali. Alfonso de Albuquerque, gallant governor-general at whose hands the blood of thousands were shed in Ormuz and Goa, finally meets his doom at the sword of a Melakan heroine.

Nyemah, Tun Nyemah Mulya, a maiden of 15 years, commander of the Melakan forces – exceptionally capable, astutely tactical, cultured, intelligent and decisive – leads the Nusantara armada of 100 warships carrying 60,000 armed forces, riding the high waves to accomplish double missions to keep a promise to return Albuquerque’s preserved body to Portugal for burial and to seize and conquer Portugal.

1515 – A date western historians keep silent about – the fall of the Portuguese government and the rise of Malay sultanate in Europe for decades! 1515 is the story of one historian’s quest for historical truth, tracing a people achievements that had been deliberately erased from the history books, to re-enact the bitter clashes on the battlefields of history; to visualize the bittersweet longing of love unrequited; to pay tribute to female heroism, to the sacrifice of a woman, a wife.

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