Map of the Invisible World

Aw, Tash

ISBN 10: 000728988X / ISBN 13: 9780007289882

Editore: HarperCollins Publishers Limited, 2009

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• Titolo: Map of the Invisible World
• Editore: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 000728988X
• ISBN 13: 9780007289882
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Edizione: Canadian First.
• Condizione: Good

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Riassunto

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

16-year-old Adam is an orphan three times over. He and his older brother, Johan, were abandoned by their mother as children; he watched as Johan was adopted and taken away by a wealthy couple; and he had to hide when Karl, the Dutch man who raised him, was arrested by soldiers during Sukarno's drive to purge 1960s Indonesia of its colonial past.

Adam sets out on a quest to find Karl, but all he has to guide him are some old photos and letters, which send him to the colourful, dangerous capital, Jakarta. Johan, meanwhile, is living a seemingly carefree, privileged life in Malaysia, but is careening out of control, unable to forget the long-ago betrayal of his helpless, trusting brother.

Map of the Invisible World is a masterful novel, and confirms Tash Aw as one of the most exciting young writers at work today.

Informazioni sull?autore

Tash Aw's debut novel The Harmony Silk Factory was the winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award and a Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Novel, as well as being longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He was born in Malaysia and now lives in London.