Tash Aw THE HARMONY SILK FACTORY First Edition Signed
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Tash Aw THE HARMONY SILK FACTORY First Edition Signed
First UK edition, first print hardback of THE HARMONY SILK FACTORY, by Tash Aw and published by Fourth Estate, London in 2005. Signed by Tash Aw on the title page. With the number '1' on the copyright page.The book is in very good condition (Clean orange cloth boards with white lettering on the spine), with minor wear to the dust jacket which is not price clipped, (light creasing to the edges). Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no other inscriptions.
Tash Aw was born in Taipei, in the Republic of China, and brought up in Malaysia. He moved to England in his teens and now lives in London. He is the author of The Harmony Silk Factory, which was the winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Novel and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and Map of the Invisible World.
His most recent novel, Five Star Billionaire, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013. His books have also been translated into 23 languages and his short fiction has won an O. Henry Prize.
"A landmark work of fiction from the twice-Man Booker prize-longlisted author: a devastating love story set against the turmoil of mid-twentieth-century Malaysia.
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 Valleys most prominent families, who dies giving birth to one of the novels 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."
A fine, strong, confident novel and what a storyteller Tash Aw is. Unputdownable - Doris Lessing
The Harmony Silk Factory is an utterly remarkable debut. Its a dream of a novel, lovely and exquisite and intense, and reveals Tash Aws 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
'Bewitchingly written and gracefully assured The story Aw tells is mercilessly gripping and his prose is lucid, uncluttered, beautiful Aw orchestrates a graceful ballet of dissonances and congruences, of echoes and discords.' - Neel Mukherjee, The Times
'Tash Aw's striking debut is as elusive as it is exotic. Aw is a skilled and sensitive writer' - Daily Mail
'Absorbing a rich, intense novel The strength of Tash Aw's writing can be seen in the three narratives. Each voice is distinct and each offers a subtly different viewpoint, remaking the material afresh The beauty and danger of nature are everywhere in this delicately drawn novel' - TLS
362 pages.
ISBN: 000718204X
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