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Tash Aw

Biography

Tash Aw

Tash Aw was born in Taipei and brought up in Malaysia. 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 long-listed for the Man Booker Prize; MAP OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD; and FIVE STAR BILLIONAIRE, also longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2013. He is also the author of a memoir of an immigrant family, THE FACE: Strangers on a Pier, a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize.

Tash Aw

Books by Tash Aw

by Tash Aw - Fiction

Born and raised in a Malaysian fishing village, Ah Hock favors stability above all, a preference at odds with his rapidly modernizing surroundings. So what brings him to kill a man? This question leads a young, privileged journalist to Ah Hock’s door. While the victim has been mourned and the killer has served time for the crime, Ah Hock's motive remains unclear, even to himself. His vivid confession unfurls over extensive interviews with the journalist, herself a local whose life has taken a very different course. The process forces both the speaker and his listener to reckon with systems of power, race and class in a place where success is promised to all yet delivered only to its lucky heirs.

by Tash Aw - Fiction

Phoebe is a factory girl who has come to Shanghai with the promise of a job. Gary is a country boy turned pop star who is spinning out of control. Justin is in Shanghai to expand his family’s real estate empire. He has long harbored a crush on Yinghui, who has reinvented herself as a successful Shanghai businesswoman. Yinghui is about to make a deal with Walter Chao, the five star billionaire of the novel, who has a hand in the lives of each of the characters.