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The Harmony Silk Factory

By Tash Aw

By Tash Aw

By Tash Aw

By Tash Aw

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    About The Harmony Silk Factory

    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 hero—a 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.

     

    About The Harmony Silk Factory

    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 hero—a 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.

     

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    About Tash Aw

    Born in Taipei to Malaysian parents, Tash Aw grew up in Kuala Lumpur before moving to Britain to attend university. He is the author of three critically acclaimed novels, The Harmony Silk Factory (2005), Map of the Invisible World (2009),… More about Tash Aw

    About Tash Aw

    Born in Taipei to Malaysian parents, Tash Aw grew up in Kuala Lumpur before moving to Britain to attend university. He is the author of three critically acclaimed novels, The Harmony Silk Factory (2005), Map of the Invisible World (2009),… More about Tash Aw

    Product Details

    Category: Historical Fiction | Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Riverhead Books
    Feb 07, 2006 | 416 Pages | 5-1/8 x 8 | ISBN 9781594481741

    Category: Historical Fiction | Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Riverhead Books
    Feb 07, 2006 | 416 Pages | ISBN 9781440628337

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    “Unputdownable.”—Doris Lessing

    “A beguiling narrative mosaic…bewitchingly written…mercilessly gripping.”—The Times (London)

    “First reaction: WOW! Second reaction: Read it.”—Asian Week

    “A beautifully composed and memorable story…A first book anyone who travels by fiction will want to read.”—San Francisco Chronicle

    Awards

    Whitbread First Novel Award WINNER

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