The Harmony Silk Factory Paperback - 2006
by Tash Aw
Conrad, Maugham, and Burgess have shaped our perceptions of Malaysia. Now, with The Harmony Silk Factory, we have an authentic Malaysian voice that remaps this literary landscape. Through his examination of a mysterious and larger than life character-hero or traitor?-Tash Aw gives us an exquisitely written look into another culture at a moment of crisis.
Summary
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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- Title The Harmony Silk Factory
- Author Tash Aw
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Trade Pape
- Pages 416
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Riverhead Books, NY USA
- Date 2006-02-07
- ISBN 9781594481741 / 1594481741
- Weight 0.76 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 7.98 x 5.19 x 0.92 in (20.27 x 13.18 x 2.34 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
"A beguiling narrative mosaic...bewitchingly written...mercilessly gripping."—The Times (London)
"First reaction: WOW! Second reaction: Read it."—Asian Week
"A beautifully composed and memorable story...A first book anyone who travels by fiction will want to read."—San Francisco Chronicle
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