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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Tash Aw is a recent graduate of UEA. He is Malaysian by birth but now lives in London. This is his first novel.
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Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. A fine UK limited edition paperback first printing - no dustjacket (as issued) - All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days) - SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR - Pictures available upon request. Signed by Author(s). Codice articolo 002187
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Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Paperback. Trade paperback novel with French wraps, signed by author on title page; Overall clean sound unmarked copy, slightly agetoned pages; The author's debut novel set in the Far East during Japanese occupation in WW2; Marked as a special limited edition, 362 pages; Signed by Author(s). Codice articolo PARA7334
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Da: Antiquariat Luna, Lüneburg, Germania
Original-Broschur. Condizione: Gut. auf Titel signiert von dem malayisch-englischen Schriftsteller Tash Aw (*1971) , leichte Gebrauchspuren, Papier etwas altersgebräunt. signed by author Size: 8°. Vom Autor signiert. Buch. Codice articolo 025326
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