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A landmark work of fiction from one of Britain's most exciting new writers: The Harmony Silk Factory is a devastating love story set against the turmoil of mid-twentieth century Malaysia.

From the author of the internationally acclaimed, Whitbread Award-winning ‘The Harmony Silk Factory’ comes an enthralling new novel that evokes an exotic yet turbulent and often frightening world. Sixteen-year-old Adam is an orphan three times over. He and his older brother, Johan, were abandoned by their mother as children; he watched as Johan was adopted and taken away by a wealthy couple; and he had to hide when Karl, the Dutch man who raised him, was arrested by soldiers during Sukarno’s drive to purge 1960s Indonesia of its colonial past. Adam sets out on a quest to find Karl, but all he has to guide him are some old photos and letters, which send him to the colourful, dangerous capital, Jakarta. Johan, meanwhile, is living a seemingly carefree, privileged life in Malaysia, but is careening out of control, unable to forget the long-ago betrayal of his helpless, trusting brother. ‘Map of the Invisible World’ is a masterful novel, and confirms Tash Aw as one of the most exciting young writers at work today.

Longlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize, the overlapping lives of five newcomers to Chinaâ??s most dynamic city are the subject of this kaleidoscopic novel.

A murdererâ??s confession â?? devastating, unblinking, poignant, unforgettable â?? which reveals a story of class, education and the inescapable workings of destiny.

‘So wise and so well done. It made me wish it were much longer than it is’ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie From the award-winning author of Five Star Billionaire and We, The Survivors comes a whirlwind personal history of modern Asia, as told through his Malaysian and Chinese heritage. If we are lucky we will find writing that grips us with its vitality, beauty and significance – Strangers on a Pier is like that’ Deborah Levy In Strangers on a Pier, acclaimed author Tash Aw explores the panoramic cultural vitality of modern Asia through his own complicated family story of migration and adaptation, which is reflected in his own face. From a taxi ride in present-day Bangkok, to eating Kentucky Fried Chicken in 1980s Kuala Lumpur, to his grandfathers' treacherous boat journeys to Malaysia from mainland China in the 1920s, Aw weaves together stories of insiders and outsiders, images from rural villages to megacity night clubs, and voices in a dizzying variety of languages, dialects, and slangs, to create an intricate and astoundingly vivid portrait of a place caught between the fast-approaching future and a past that won't let go.

A radiant novel of longing that blooms between two boys over the course of one summerâ??about family, desire, and what we inheritâ??from celebrated author Tash Aw.

'A mesmerising tale. Both heartbreaking and joyful' MICHAEL CUNNINGHAMA radiant novel of the longing that blooms between two boys over the course of one summer - about family, desire, and what we inherit - from celebrated author Tash Aw.'Shimmeringly intelligent and elegiacally intimate' YIYUN LI

This question leads a young, privileged journalist to Ah Hock’s door. While the victim has been mourned and the killer has served time for the crime, Ah Hock's motive remains unclear, even to himself. His vivid confession unfurls over extensive interviews with the journalist, herself a local whose life has taken a very different course. The process forces both the speaker and his listener to reckon with systems of power, race, and class in a place where success is promised to all yet delivered only to its lucky heirs. An uncompromising portrait of an outsider navigating a society in transition, Tash Aw’s anti-nostalgic tale, We the Survivors, holds its tension to the very end. In the wake of loss and destruction, hope is among the survivors.

A radiant, intimate novel of the longing that blooms between two boys over the course of one summer--about family, desire, and what we inherit. When his grandfather dies, Jay travels south with his family to the property they've inherited, a once flourishing farm that has fallen into disrepair. The trees are diseased, the fields parched from months of drought. Jay's father, Jack, sends him out to work the land, or whatever land is left. Over the course of these hot, dense days, Jay finds himself drawn to Chuan, the son of the farm's manager, different from him in every way except for one. Out in the fields, and on the streets into town, the charge between the boys intensifies. Inside the house, the other family members begin to confront their own secrets and regrets. Jack is a professor at a struggling local college whose failures might have begun when he married his student, Sui Ching. Sui Ching does her best to keep the family together, though she too wonders what her life could have been. And Fong, the manager, refuses to look at what is: at Chuan, at the land, at the global forces that threaten to render his whole life obsolete. At once sweeping and compressed, Tash Aw's The South is a family novel of change and desire--a story of what happens when public and private lives collide, told with uncommon grace and beauty.

Long-listed for the Booker Prize Named one of The New York Times's Notable Books of the Year One of The Washington Post's Best Fiction Books of the Year A radiant, intimate novel of the longing that blooms between two boys over the course of one summer--about family, desire, and what we inherit. When his grandfather dies, Jay travels south with his family to the property they've inherited, a once-flourishing farm that has fallen into disrepair. The trees are diseased, the fields parched from months of drought. Jay's father, Jack, sends him out to work the land, or whatever land is left. Over the course of these hot, dense days, Jay finds himself drawn to Chuan, the son of the farm's manager, different from him in every way except for one. Out in the fields, and on the streets into town, the charge between the boys intensifies. Inside the house, the other family members begin to confront their own secrets and regrets. Jack is a professor at a struggling local college whose failures might have begun when he married his student, Sui Ching. Sui Ching does her best to keep the family together, though she too wonders what her life could have been. And Fong, the manager, refuses to look at what is: at Chuan, at the land, at the global forces that threaten to render his whole life obsolete. At once sweeping and compressed, Tash Aw's The South is a family novel of change and desire--a story of what happens when public and private lives collide, told with uncommon grace and beauty.

From the author of The Harmony Silk Factory and Five Star Billionaire, a compelling depiction of a man's act of violence, set against the backdrop of Asia in flux Ah Hock is an ordinary man of simple means. Born and raised in a Malaysian fishing village, he favors stability above all, a preference at odds with his rapidly modernizing surroundings. So what brings him to kill a man? This question leads a young, privileged journalist to Ah Hock's door. While the victim has been mourned and the killer has served time for the crime, Ah Hock's motive remains unclear, even to himself. His vivid confession unfurls over extensive interviews with the journalist, herself a local whose life has taken a very different course. The process forces both the speaker and his listener to reckon with systems of power, race, and class in a place where success is promised to all yet delivered only to its lucky heirs. An uncompromising portrait of an outsider navigating a society in transition, Tash Aw's anti-nostalgic tale, We, the Survivors, holds its tension to the very end. In the wake of loss and destruction, hope is among the survivors.

Running the area's most impressive Chinese silk factory in the Malaysian region throughout the first half of the twentieth century, admired war veteran Johnny Lim finds his life complicated by his son's belief that Johnny is a collaborator who uses the factory as a front for illegal businesses. A first novel. Reprint.

Uvlekatelnyj i glubokij roman, dajuschij predstavlenie ob atmosfere v sovremennom Kitae. Fibi - prostaja devushka iz glubokoj provintsii, ona priekhala v Shankhaj s namereniem najti khot kakuju-nibud rabotu, no s mechtami o chem-to gorazdo bolshem. Gari - derevenskij v proshlom paren, stavshij pop-zvezdoj, no tak i ne szhivshijsja so svoim novym polozheniem. Dzhastin - naslednik bogatoj malajzijskoj semi, ego tsel - uprochit familnuju imperiju nedvizhimosti, no v Shankhae on natalkivaetsja na nerazreshimuju problemu. Inkhoj - uspeshnaja biznes-ledi, sbezhavshaja iz rodnoj Malajzii, gde ona byla prosto devochkoj iz khoroshej semi... I rasskazchik, kotoryj napravljaet zhizni kazhdogo soglasno svoemu, tolko emu izvestnomu, planu.

I Fremmede på moloen utforsker den kritikerroste forfatteren Tash Aw det moderne Asias vitale kulturelle mangfold gjennom sin egen families historie. Fra en drosjetur gjennom dagens Bangkok, via Kentucky Fried Chicken i Kuala Lumpur på åttitallet, til bestefedrenes farefulle båtreiser fra fastlands-Kina til Malaysia på 1920-tallet fletter Aw sammen fortellinger om å befinne seg på innsiden og utsiden. Slik skaper han et forbløffende levende portrett av en verdensdel som er fanget mellom en fortid som ikke slipper taket og en framtid som nærmer seg i stormfart. Tash Aws korte og treffende personlige essay er på samme tid reflekterende, underholdende, politisk og vakkert skrevet, og gir et unikt innsyn i en verden av migrasjon og skiftende tilhørighet og identitet. Det skildrer forholdet mellom generasjonene i innvandrerfamilier på treffsikkert og bevegende vis, og viser hvordan den raske utviklingen fra én økonomisk klasse til en annen kan gjøre erfaringene besteforeldre, foreldre og barn forholder seg til så forskjellig at full forståelse nesten blir umulig. Aws fortelling springer ut av hans families spesifikke kulturelle og geografiske bakgrunn, men fanger samtidig på glimrende vis opp hva det vil si å leve i vår globale verden i dag.

From the author of the internationally acclaimed The Harmony Silk Factory comes an enthralling novel that evokes an exotic yet turbulent place and time--1960s Indonesia during President Sukarno's drive to purge the country of its colonial past. A page-turning story, Map of the Invisible World follows the journeys of two brothers and an American woman who are indelibly marked by the past--and swept up in the tides of history.

In the Man Booker prize-longlisted 'Five Star Billionaire' Tash Aw charts the overlapping lives of migrant Malaysian workers, forging lives for themselves in sprawling Shanghai.