EMBASSY TALES

The Alliance Française de Penang and Clarity Publishing are delighted to be hosting the launch of Christine Sathiah's book Embassy Tales.

Embassy Tales is an intensely personal and perceptive account of Christine’s life as the wife of a senior Malaysian diplomat (Dato’ Renji Sathiah) spanning three decades and nine different countries, where she was witness to historical events and upheavals including war in Cambodia and Perestroika in the USSR.

Part memoir, part travelogue, Embassy Tales is a vivid and sympathetic look at the foibles and idiosyncrasies of diplomatic life, and a humorous and moving testimony to the art of traditional diplomacy that has faded in an age of screens and digital conversations.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Christine Sathiah, born in France of mixed French-Spanish heritage, spent her formative years in Paris. She studied French literature at the Sorbonne and later achieved a First Class Honours degree in International Relations and Political Science at Victoria University in

Wellington.

📅 Monday 6 January 2025

🕕 Arrival and refreshments from 6pm

🕢 Author discussion and reading from 6.30pm

📍 Alliance Française de Penang, 46 Jalan Phuah Hin Leong