Map of the Invisible World (First Edition)

Aw, Tash

ISBN 10: 0385527969 / ISBN 13: 9780385527965

Published by Spiegel & Grau, New York, 2010

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First printing (with full number sequence including the 1). Brand new! Very Fine in a very fine dust jacket. A tight, clean copy, new and unread. Comeswith archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. NOT price clipped. Shipped in well padded box. FICTION -rear stacks. Seller Inventory # Stacks-Fiction-77

Bibliographic Details

Title: Map of the Invisible World (First Edition)

Publisher: Spiegel & Grau, New York

Publication Date: 2010

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Dust Jacket Condition: New

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

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.

Review:

"Reminiscent of Graham Greene . . . powerful and mesmerizing . . . haunting and memorable."--"The Guardian" (U.K.) "Full of immense intelligence and empathy."--"Time""" "Beautifully written . . . The tension of the lives of Aw's characters, the frayed fabric of Jakarta . . . the dichotomies of beauty and squalor, the mobs, the menace, the impending crisis--all of this is captured in "Map of the Invisible World "with a fidelity that can't be faulted."--"The Washington Post" "Exquisite . . . What makes ["Map of the Invisible World"] brilliant are its rootless main characters. These fully formed individuals and their relationships transform [this] novel into a moving meditation on identity, memory, and art."--"Time Out New York " "Exquisitely and subtly rendered . . . Aw's haunting writing and his detailed evocation of 1960s Indonesia are both masterly."--"The Christian Science Monitor" "[A] vibrant narrative . . . enveloping the reader in several haun