The Harmony Silk Factory
by Aw, Tash
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- Condition
- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 000718204X
- ISBN 13
- 9780007182046
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Synopsis
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 heroa 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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- Bookseller
- Better World Books Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- GRP64847843
- Title
- The Harmony Silk Factory
- Author
- Aw, Tash
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 000718204X
- ISBN 13
- 9780007182046
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 2005