Tash Aw Boeken

'So wise and so well done. It made me wish it were much longer than it is' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie From the award-winning author of Five Star Billionaire and We, The Survivors comes a whirlwind personal history of modern Asia, as told through his Malaysian and Chinese heritage. If we are lucky we will find writing that grips us with its vitality, beauty and significance - Strangers on a Pier is like that' Deborah Levy In Strangers on a Pier, acclaimed author Tash Aw explores the panoramic cultural vitality of modern Asia through his own complicated family story of migration and adaptation, which is reflected in his own face

A whirlwind personal history of modern Asia, as told through his Malaysian and Chinese heritage

A murderer's confession - devastating, unblinking, poignant, unforgettable - which reveals a story of class, education and the inescapable workings of destiny.

Set in dynamic Shanghai, this novel follows four individuals—a hopeful waitress, a developer's son, a pop artist, and a poetry-loving activist—as they navigate their dreams of love and success while facing unforeseen challenges in their rapidly changing environment.

From the author of the internationally acclaimed, Whitbread Award-winning `The Harmony Silk Factory' comes an enthralling new novel that evokes an exotic yet turbulent and often frightening world.

Longlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize, the overlapping lives of five newcomers to China's most dynamic city are the subject of this kaleidoscopic novel. Welcome to Shanghai. A restless metropolis where old traditions collide with new ambitions - a place where anything can happen and anyone can become Somebody. Golddigger, property magnate, pop star, entrepreneur and guru: five newcomers are lured by the promise of making fortunes and remaking identities. But they find their lives converging in unpredictable ways, as the Five Star Billionaire's lessons for success wreak havoc. For in a land where dreams may come true, nothing is ever quite as it seems...

Running an impressive Chinese silk factory in the Malaysian region throughout the first half of the twentieth century, Johnny Lim finds his life complicated by his son's belief that he uses the factory as a front for illegal businesses.

Tash Aw erzählt die persönliche Geschichte seiner malaysisch-chinesischen Familie und reflektiert über Identität in modernem Asien. Von der Universitätszeit in England bis zu Erinnerungen an Bangkok und Kuala Lumpur verbindet er Familiengeschichten mit eigenen Erlebnissen und skizziert die kulturelle Vielfalt Asiens.

Ah Hock ist ein einfacher, ungebildeter Mann aus einem malaysischen Fischerdorf, der sich Reichtum und Sicherheit wünscht – wie es allen Menschen in Südostasien versprochen, aber nur bei wenigen Privilegierten eingelöst wird. Während die Gesellschaft um ihn herum sich verändert, hangelt er sich von einem schlecht bezahlten Job zum nächsten und ermordet schließlich einen Wanderarbeiter aus Bangladesch. Einer Journalistin, die ihn nach dem Gefängnis in seiner ärmlichen Hütte besucht, erzählt er, wie es zu der Gewalttat kommen konnte. Der malaysische Autor Tash Aw zeigt mit diesem ergreifenden und beeindruckenden Porträt eines Außenseiters die Erosionen eines Menschenlebens und die Verwüstungen jeglicher Hoffnung.