The Harmony Silk Factory (Signed First Edition)

Tash Aw

ISBN 10: 000718204X / ISBN 13: 9780007182046

Published by Fourth Estate (London), 2005

About this Item

First British edition. First printing. Hardbound. New! A pristine unread copy. Very fine/very fine in all respects. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. He has signed his name only, with no other marks. Comes with mylar dust jacket protector. Smoke free shop, shipped in sturdy box. Booker Prize Nominee.

Seller Inventory # oct05-32

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Harmony Silk Factory (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Fourth Estate (London)
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 000718204X
• ISBN 13: 9780007182046
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed First Editions

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Tash Aw’s debut novel The Harmony Silk Factory was the winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award and Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Novel, as well as being longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He was born in Malaysia and now lives in London.