Tash Aw

In this stunning new novel, Tash Aw charts the overlapping lives of migrant Malaysian workers, forging lives for themselves in sprawling Shanghai. Justin is from a family of successful property developers. Phoebe has come to China buoyed with hope, but her dreams are shattered within hours as the job she has come for seems never to have existed. Gary is a successful pop artist, but his fans and marketing machine disappear after a bar-room brawl. Yinghui has businesses that are going well but must make decisions about her life. And then there is Walter, the shadowy billionaire, ruthless and manipulative, ultimately alone in the world. In 'Five Star Billionaire', Tash Aw charts the weave of their journeys in the new China, counterpointing their adventures with the old life they have left behind in Malaysia. The result is a brilliant examination of the migrations that are shaping the new city experiences all over the world, and their effect on myriad individual lives.

Longlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize, the overlapping lives of five newcomers to China's most dynamic city are the subject of this kaleidoscopic novel. Welcome to Shanghai. A restless metropolis where old traditions collide with new ambitions - a place where anything can happen and anyone can become Somebody. Golddigger, property magnate, pop star, entrepreneur and guru: five newcomers are lured by the promise of making fortunes and remaking identities. But they find their lives converging in unpredictable ways, as the Five Star Billionaire's lessons for success wreak havoc. For in a land where dreams may come true, nothing is ever quite as it seems...

16-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 Sukarnos 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.

Pocos lugares han sufrido una transformación tan radical como la de Asia en estas últimas décadas. La vida de cada generación ha resultado ser muy diferente a la de la anterior y la siguiente. En este caos identitario, donde se mezclan pueblos rurales y mega-ciudades, resulta complicado no perder el tren del progreso, conciliar las tensiones entre oriente y occidente, y a la vez mantener las tradiciones y los vinculos con las generaciones previas. Tash Aw reflexiona sobre esto de forma personal. Sus abuelos emigraron en barca desde China a Malasia en 1920. Sus padres vivieron en un pueblo rural de Malasia. Tash Aw vivio su infancia alli, pero se educo y paso gran parte de su vida adulta en Singapur y el Reino Unido. ¿Hay algo que conecte estas tres generaciones? ¿Como construye su identidad a partir de estas tres historias?

El fascinante diario de viaje de cuatro personas a la enigmática Malasia rural del siglo XX. El director de la famosa Fábrica de Sedas Harmony; su esposa; su mejor y único amigo, Peter Wormwood, y el señor Kunichika, un japones brillante y seductor, viajan por placer a un remoto archipielago del estrecho de Malaca. La jornada revela las complejidades culturales y politicas de la epoca y apunta hacia el enigma que planea sobre esta original novela: quien es realmente Johnny Lim, un heroe o un colaboracionista traidor...

Un viaje de placer a un remoto archipiélago del estrecho de Malaca, conocido como «las Siete Sirenas», es el epicentro del brillante debut literario de Tash Aw, que, siguiendo la huella de grandes es

A brilliant novel from a genuinely exciting new voice in British fiction. A novel for anyone who enjoyed The English Patient. Set in Malaysia in the 1930s and 40s, with the rumbling of the Second World War in the background and the Japanese about to invade, The Harmony Silk Factory is the story of four people: Johnny, an infamous Chinaman - a salesman, a fraudster, possibly a murderer - whose shop house, The Harmony Silk Factory, he uses as a front for his illegal businesses; Snow Soong, the beautiful daughter of one of the Kinta Valley's most prominent families, who dies giving birth to one of the novel's narrators; Kunichika, a Japanese officer who loves Snow too; and an Englishman, Peter Wormwood, who went to Malaysia like many English but never came back, who also loved Snow to the end of his life. A journey the four of them take into the jungle has a devastating effect on all of them, and brilliantly exposes the cultural tensions of the era. Haunting, highly original, The Harmony Silk Factory is suspenseful to the last page.

A brilliant novel from a genuinely exciting new voice in British fiction. A novel for anyone who enjoyed The English Patient. Set in Malaysia in the 1930s and 40s, with the rumbling of the Second World War in the background and the Japanese about to invade, The Harmony Silk Factory is the story of four people: Johnny, an infamous Chinaman -- a salesman, a fraudster, possibly a murderer -- whose shop house, The Harmony Silk Factory, he uses as a front for his illegal businesses; Snow Soong, the beautiful daughter of one of the Kinta Valley's most prominent families, who dies giving birth to one of the novel's narrators; Kunichika, a Japanese officer who loves Snow too; and an Englishman, Peter Wormwood, who went to Malaysia like many English but never came back, who also loved Snow to the end of his life. A journey the four of them take into the jungle has a devastating effect on all of them, and brilliantly exposes the cultural tensions of the era. Haunting, highly original, The Harmony Silk Factory is suspenseful to the last page.

Malaisie, fin des années 1990. À la mort de son grand-père, le jeune Jay se rend dans le sud du pays avec sa famille pour passer l’été dans la propriété dont ils viennent d’hériter : une ferme autref

Pocos lugares han sufrido una transformación tan radical como la de Asia en estas últimas décadas. La vida de cada generación ha resultado ser muy diferente a la de la anterior y la siguiente. En este caos identitario, donde se mezclan pueblos rurales y megaciudades, resulta complicado no perder el tren del progreso, conciliar las tensiones entre oriente y occidente, y a la vez mantener las tradiciones y los vinculos con las generaciones previas. Tash Aw reflexiona sobre esto de forma personal. Sus abuelos emigraron en barca desde China a Malasia en 1920. Sus padres vivieron en un pueblo rural de Malasia. Tash Aw vivio su infancia alli, pero se educo y paso gran parte de su vida adulta en Singapur y el Reino Unido. ¿Hay algo que conecte estas tres generaciones? ¿Como construye su identidad a partir de estas tres historias?

Joseph Conrad, W. Somerset Maugham, and Anthony Burgess have shaped our perceptions of Malaysia. In Tash Aw, we now have an authentic Malaysian voice that remaps this literary landscape.The Harmony Silk Factory traces the story of textile merchant Johnny Lim, a Chinese peasant living in British Malaya in the first half of the twentieth century. Johnnys factory is the most impressive structure in the region, and to the inhabitants of the Kinta Valley Johnny is a heroa Communist who fought the Japanese when they invaded, ready to sacrifice his life for the welfare of his people. But to his son, Jasper, Johnny is a crook and a collaborator who betrayed the very people he pretended to serve, and the Harmony Silk Factory is merely a front for his fathers illegal businesses. This debut novel from Tash Aw gives us an exquisitely written look into another culture at a moment of crisis.The Harmony Silk Factory won the 2005 Whitbread First Novel Award and also made it to the 2005 Man Booker longlist.

Enfant de la diaspora chinoise, Tash Aw explore dans ce court récit intime le labyrinthe de ses origines. L’arrivée en Malaisie deses grands-parents se mêle à ses propres souvenirs, où se croisent de

Il y a longtemps, Ah Hock a tué. Désormais il vit seul, presque reclus chez lui. Un jour, une étudiante frappe à sa porte : comme d’autres avant elle, elle veut comprendre son histoire. En dépit de t

Pocos lugares han sufrido una transformación tan radical como la de Asia en estas últimas decadas. La vida de cada generación ha resultado ser muy diferente a la de la anterior y la siguiente. En este caos identitario, donde se mezclan pueblos rurales y megaciudades, resulta complicado no perder el tren del progreso, conciliar las tensiones entre oriente y occidente, y a la vez mantener las tradiciones y los vinculos con las generaciones previas. Tash Aw reflexiona sobre esto de forma personal. Sus abuelos emigraron en barca desde China a Malasia en 1920. Sus padres vivieron en un pueblo rural de Malasia. Tash Aw vivio su infancia alli, pero se educo y paso gran parte de su vida adulta en Singapur y el Reino Unido. ¿Hay algo que conecte estas tres generaciones? ¿Como construye su identidad a partir de estas tres historias?

A murderers confession devastating, unblinking, poignant, unforgettable which reveals a story of class, education and the inescapable workings of destiny.Ah Hock is an ordinary, uneducated man born in a Malaysian fishing village and now trying to make his way in a country that promises riches and security to everyone, but delivers them only to a chosen few. With Asian society changing around him, like many he remains trapped in a world of poorly paid jobs that just about allow him to keep his head above water but ultimately lead him to murder a migrant worker from Bangladesh.In the tradition of Camus and Houellebecq, Ah Hocks vivid and compelling description of the years building up to this appalling act of violence told over several days to a local journalist whose life has taken a different course is a portrait of an outsider like no other, an anti-nostalgic view of human life and the ravages of hope. It is the work of a writer at the peak of his powers.

A powerful and unsettling novel tracing the emotional and political fractures of the American South.

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025 Spellbinding THE TIMES An exquisite, languorous novel OBSERVER Heartstoppingly vivid OISÍN MCKENNA A 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. When his grandfather dies, a boy named Jay travels south with his family to the property he left them, a once flourishing farm that has fallen into disrepair. The trees are diseased, the fields parched from months of drought. Still, Jays 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 farms 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 confront their own regrets, and begin to drift apart. Like the land around them, they are powerless to resist the global forces that threaten to render their lives obsolete. At once sweeping and intimate, The South is a story of what happens when private and public lives collide. It is the first in a quartet of novels that form Tash Aws masterful portrait of a family navigating a period of great change a reimagined epic for our times.

A landmark work of fiction from one of Britains most exciting new writers: The Harmony Silk Factory is a devastating love story set against the turmoil of mid-twentieth century Malaysia. Set in Malaysia in the 1930s and 40s, with the rumbling of the Second World War in the background and the Japanese about to invade, The Harmony Silk Factory is the story of four people: Johnny, an infamous Chinaman a salesman, a fraudster, possibly a murderer whose shop house, The Harmony Silk Factory, he uses as a front for his illegal businesses; Snow Soong, the beautiful daughter of one of the Kinta Valleys most prominent families, who dies giving birth to one of the novels narrators; Kunichika, a Japanese officer who loves Snow too; and an Englishman, Peter Wormwood, who went to Malaysia like many English but never came back, who also loved Snow to the end of his life. A journey the four of them take into the jungle has a devastating effect on all of them, and brilliantly exposes the cultural tensions of the era. Haunting, highly original, The Harmony Silk Factory is suspenseful to the last page.