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'Shimmeringly intelligent and elegiacally intimate' YIYUN LI A radiant novel of longing that blooms between two boys over the course of one summer--about family, desire, and what we inherit--from celebrated author Tash Aw. When his grandfather dies, a boy named Jay travels south with his family to the property he left them, a once flourishing farm that has fallen into disrepair. The trees are diseased, the fields parched from months of drought. Still, Jay's father, Jack, sends him out to work the land, or whatever land is left. Over the course of these hot, dense days, Jay finds himself drawn to Chuan, the local son of the farm's manager, different from him in every way except for one. Out in the fields, and on the streets into town, the charge between the boys intensifies. Inside the house, the other family members confront their own regrets, and begin to drift apart. Like the land around them, they are powerless to resist the global forces that threaten to render their lives obsolete. At once sweeping and intimate, The South is a story of what happens when private and public lives collide. It is the first in a quartet of novels that form Tash Aw's masterful portrait of a family navigating a period of great change--a reimagined epic for our times.

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.

'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

From the author of The Harmony Silk Factory and Five Star Billionaire , a compelling depiction of a man’s act of violence, set against the backdrop of Asia in flux Ah Hock is an ordinary man of simple means. Born and raised in a Malaysian fishing village, he favors stability above all, a preference at odds with his rapidly modernizing surroundings. So what brings him to kill a man? This question leads a young, privileged journalist to Ah Hock’s door. While the victim has been mourned and the killer has served time for the crime, Ah Hock's motive remains unclear, even to himself. His vivid confession unfurls over extensive interviews with the journalist, herself a local whose life has taken a very different course. The process forces both the speaker and his listener to reckon with systems of power, race, and class in a place where success is promised to all yet delivered only to its lucky heirs. An uncompromising portrait of an outsider navigating a society in transition, Tash Aw’s anti-nostalgic tale, We, the Survivors , holds its tension to the very end. In the wake of loss and destruction, hope is among the survivors.

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

An entertaining, expansive, and eye-opening novel that captures the vibrance of China today, by a writer whose previous work has been called “mesmerizing,” “haunting,” “breathtaking,” “mercilessly gripping,” “seductive,” and “luminous.” Phoebe is a factory girl who has come to Shanghai with the promise of a job - but when she arrives she discovers that the job doesn't exist. Gary is a country boy turned pop star who is spinning out of control. Justin is in Shanghai to expand his family's real-estate empire, only to find that he might not be up to the task. He has long harboured a crush on Yinghui, who has reinvented herself from a poetry-loving, left-wing activist to a successful Shanghai businesswoman. She is about to make a deal with the shadowy figure of Walter Chao, the five-star billionaire of the novel, who - with his secrets and his schemes - has a hand in the lives of each of the characters. All bring their dreams and hopes to Shanghai, the shining symbol of the New China, which, like the novel's characters, is constantly in flux and which plays its own fateful role in the lives of its inhabitants. Five Star Billionaire, the dazzling kaleidoscopic new novel by the award-winning writer Tash Aw, offers rare insight into China today, with its constant transformations and its promise of possibility.

In een weeshuis in Indonesië waakt Johan over zijn kleine broertje Adam - ze hebben verder niemand. Als ze echter door verschillende families worden geadopteerd, verliezen ze contact met elkaar. Johan wordt door een rijk Maleisisch echtpaar meegenomen naar Kuala Lumpur, Adam blijft achter in Indonesië en wordt geadopteerd door de Hollandse schilder Karl. Johan groeit op in luxe, Adam in een eenvoudig plaatsje aan de kust. Maar dan, in de zomer van 1964, dreigt in Indonesië een burgeroorlog. Buitenlanders, en met name Nederlanders, worden er steeds vijandiger bejegend. Wanneer Karl gearresteerd wordt besluit de zestienjarig Adam er alles aan te doen om hem te vinden. Wat hij niet weet is dat zijn zoektocht hem ook weer dichter bij zijn broer brengt.

"This is the story of Johnny Lim - textile merchant, petty crook, and inventor of the Amazing Toddy Machine - and his marriage to Snow Soong, the most beautiful woman in the Kinta Valley. In 1940, with the Japanese threatening to invade, Johnny and Snow embark upon their honeymoon, recounted in Snow's captivating journal, to the mysterious Seven Maiden Islands, accompanied by a mercurial Japanese professor and Peter Wormwood, an Englishman adrift. Many years later, Wormwood looks back on this defining journey, while Snow's only son goes in search of the truth of his mother and the infamous Chinaman she married." Set against the backdrop of a country in crisis, this novel is both a mystery and a confession that dramatises the ambiguous nature of identity.