A follow-up by the Whitbread First Novel-winning author of The Harmony Silk finds 16-year-old Adam repeatedly abandoned by his caregivers in the wake of Holland's repatriation activities, a series of personal tragedies that mark his efforts to find his adoptive father.
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Tash Aw's debut novel, The Harmony Silk Factory, was the winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Novel and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Malaysian by birth, he now lives in London.
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