Map of the Invisible World (Signed First Edition)

Aw, Tash

ISBN 10: 0385527969 / ISBN 13: 9780385527965

Published by Spiegel & Grau, New York, 2010

About this Item

New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2009. First edition, first printing, with full number line including the 1. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Publisher's original price intact on jacket flap ($25.00). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight, clean copy. Octavo, 384 pages. Signed by the author on the title page, name only. A historical novel set in 1960s Indonesia during Sukarno's year of living dangerously, portraying political upheaval through the intertwined stories of two brothers separated in childhood. Aw, born in Taipei in 1971 to Malaysian-Chinese parents and raised in Kuala Lumpur, is the author of several acclaimed novels including "The Harmony Silk Factory" (winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award and Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Novel) and "Five Star Billionaire" (long-listed for the Booker Prize).

Seller Inventory # Stacks-Fiction-77

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Map of the Invisible World (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Spiegel & Grau, New York
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385527969
• ISBN 13: 9780385527965
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Asian Literature

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.

About the Author

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.