The Harmony Silk Factory - Brossura

Aw, Tash

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ISBN 10: 0007183224 ISBN 13: 9780007183227

Casa editrice: Harper Perennial, 2005

Riassunto

A brilliant novel from a genuinely exciting new voice in British fiction. A novel for anyone who enjoyed The English Patient.

Set in Malaysia in the 1930s and 40s, with the rumbling of the Second World War in the background and the Japanese about to invade, The Harmony Silk Factory is the story of four people: Johnny, an infamous Chinaman – a salesman, a fraudster, possibly a murderer – whose shop house, The Harmony Silk Factory, he uses as a front for his illegal businesses; Snow Soong, the beautiful daughter of one of the Kinta Valley’s most prominent families, who dies giving birth to one of the novel’s narrators; Kunichika, a Japanese officer who loves Snow too; and an Englishman, Peter Wormwood, who went to Malaysia like many English but never came back, who also loved Snow to the end of his life. A journey the four of them take into the jungle has a devastating effect on all of them, and brilliantly exposes the cultural tensions of the era.

Haunting, highly original, The Harmony Silk Factory is suspenseful to the last page.

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Recensione:

'A fine, strong, confident novel – and what a storyteller Tash Aw is. Unputdownable’
Doris Lessing

'The Harmony Silk Factory is an utterly remarkable debut. It's a dream of a novel, lovely and exquisite and intense, and reveals Tash Aw's already prodigious gift for storytelling; this young writer has come to us fully formed, and with the promise of a long and significant career.' Chang-rae Lee

L'autore:

Tash Aw is a recent graduate of UEA. He is Malaysian by birth but now lives in London. This is his first novel.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Harper Perennial
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0007183224
• ISBN 13: 9780007183227
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 368