Harris bin Potter and the Stoned Philosopher

Zusatztext

<p>An illustrated edition of the author’s first novel—the hilarious, viral hit<em>Harris bin Potter and the Stoned Philosopher</em>, in which a bespectacled boy finds out that magic is disappearing in Singapore... and has to stop it.<br/><br/>Harris bin Potter is an orphan who loves to play void deck football like any other Singaporean boy. But when he discovers he is a parceltongue (i.e., he can talk to boxes...er, parcels), his world changes. Harris learns about his magical lineage and enrols at the MOE-approved Hog-Tak-Halal-What School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.<br/><br/>There, he is sorted into the House of Fandi and gets caught up in an insane adventure to save Singapore’s magical folk from being turned into kosongs.</p>

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Suffian Hakim is a writer of fantastical, whimsical, wacky books. His first was a parody,<em>Harris bin Potter and the Stoned Philosopher</em>, whose initial chapter was published online in 2013 before going viral.<em>The Straits Times</em> calls Suffian undoubtedly one of the most whimsical, creative and unpretentious young voices in Singapore literature. He was previously a regional content lead at media agency GroupM and had written for television shows such as<em>Random Island</em> and<em>The Noose</em>, and publications<em>Esquire</em> and<em>August Man</em>.

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