The Harmony Silk Factory - Softcover
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.
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'A fine, strong, confident novel – and what a storyteller Tash Aw is. Unputdownable’
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'The Harmony Silk Factory is an utterly remarkable debut. It's a dream of a novel, lovely and exquisite and intense, and reveals Tash Aw's already prodigious gift for storytelling; this young writer has come to us fully formed, and with the promise of a long and significant career.' Chang-rae Lee
'Bewitchingly written and gracefully assured ... The story Aw tells is mercilessly gripping and his prose is lucid, uncluttered, beautiful ... Aw orchestrates a graceful ballet of dissonances and congruences, of echoes and discords.' Neel Mukherjee, The Times
'Tash Aw's striking debut is as elusive as it is exotic. Beginning in playful and indeed almost picaresque mood, The Harmony Silk Factory evolves into a novel of quiet regret and long suppressed pain. Its three narrators speak with distinctive and compelling voices. Aw is a skilled and sensitive writer' Daily Mail
‘The strength of Tash Aw’s writing can be seen in the three narratives. Each voice is distinct and each offers a subtly different viewpoint, remaking the material afresh....The beauty and danger are everywhere in this delicately drawn novel.’ TLS
Tash Aw was born in Taipei and brought up in Malaysia. He moved to England in his teens. This is his first novel.
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- PublisherRiverhead Books
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 1594481741
- ISBN 13 9781594481741
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages498
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 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. Johnny's 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 father's 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. Aw's highly original first novel juxtaposes three accounts of the life of an enigmatic man at a pivotal and haunting moment in Malaysian history. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781594481741
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