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'Shimmeringly intelligent and elegiacally intimate' YIYUN LI A radiant novel of longing that blooms between two boys over the course of one summer--about family, desire, and what we inherit--from celebrated author Tash Aw. When his grandfather dies, a boy named Jay travels south with his family to the property he left them, a once flourishing farm that has fallen into disrepair. The trees are diseased, the fields parched from months of drought. Still, Jay's father, Jack, sends him out to work the land, or whatever land is left. Over the course of these hot, dense days, Jay finds himself drawn to Chuan, the local son of the farm's manager, different from him in every way except for one. Out in the fields, and on the streets into town, the charge between the boys intensifies. Inside the house, the other family members confront their own regrets, and begin to drift apart. Like the land around them, they are powerless to resist the global forces that threaten to render their lives obsolete. At once sweeping and intimate, The South is a story of what happens when private and public lives collide. It is the first in a quartet of novels that form Tash Aw's masterful portrait of a family navigating a period of great change--a reimagined epic for our times.

'Shimmeringly intelligent and elegiacally intimate' YIYUN LI A radiant novel of longing that blooms between two boys over the course of one summer--about family, desire, and what we inherit--from celebrated author Tash Aw.

Tash Aw erzählt die persönliche Geschichte seiner malaysisch-chinesischen Familie und reflektiert über Identität in modernem Asien. Von der Universitätszeit in England bis zu Erinnerungen an Bangkok und Kuala Lumpur verbindet er Familiengeschichten mit eigenen Erlebnissen und skizziert die kulturelle Vielfalt Asiens.

Ah Hock ist ein einfacher, ungebildeter Mann aus einem malaysischen Fischerdorf, der sich Reichtum und Sicherheit wünscht – wie es allen Menschen in Südostasien versprochen, aber nur bei wenigen Privilegierten eingelöst wird. Während die Gesellschaft um ihn herum sich verändert, hangelt er sich von einem schlecht bezahlten Job zum nächsten und ermordet schließlich einen Wanderarbeiter aus Bangladesch. Einer Journalistin, die ihn nach dem Gefängnis in seiner ärmlichen Hütte besucht, erzählt er, wie es zu der Gewalttat kommen konnte. Der malaysische Autor Tash Aw zeigt mit diesem ergreifenden und beeindruckenden Porträt eines Außenseiters die Erosionen eines Menschenlebens und die Verwüstungen jeglicher Hoffnung.

'So wise and so well done. It made me wish it were much longer than it is' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie From the award-winning author of Five Star Billionaire and We, The Survivors comes a whirlwind personal history of modern Asia, as told through his Malaysian and Chinese heritage. If we are lucky we will find writing that grips us with its vitality, beauty and significance - Strangers on a Pier is like that' Deborah Levy In Strangers on a Pier, acclaimed author Tash Aw explores the panoramic cultural vitality of modern Asia through his own complicated family story of migration and adaptation, which is reflected in his own face

A murderer's confession - devastating, unblinking, poignant, unforgettable - which reveals a story of class, education and the inescapable workings of destiny.

A whirlwind personal history of modern Asia, as told through his Malaysian and Chinese heritage

Set in dynamic Shanghai, this novel follows four individuals—a hopeful waitress, a developer's son, a pop artist, and a poetry-loving activist—as they navigate their dreams of love and success while facing unforeseen challenges in their rapidly changing environment.

Longlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize, the overlapping lives of five newcomers to China's most dynamic city are the subject of this kaleidoscopic novel. Welcome to Shanghai. A restless metropolis where old traditions collide with new ambitions - a place where anything can happen and anyone can become Somebody. Golddigger, property magnate, pop star, entrepreneur and guru: five newcomers are lured by the promise of making fortunes and remaking identities. But they find their lives converging in unpredictable ways, as the Five Star Billionaire's lessons for success wreak havoc. For in a land where dreams may come true, nothing is ever quite as it seems...

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