The Face: Strangers on A Pier
Author(s): Tash Aw
With his entry into Restless Book's The Face series, award-winning novelist Tash Aw explores the panoramic cultural vitality of modern Asia through his own complicated family story of migration and adaptation. From a taxi ride in present-day Bangkok, to eating Kentucky Fried Chicken in 1980s Kuala Lumpur, to his grandfathers' treacherous boat journeys to mainland China in the 1920s, Aw weaves together stories of insiders and outsiders, images from rural villages to megacity nightclubs and voices in a dizzying variety of dialects and slangs.
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This young writer has come to us fully formed, and with the promise of a long and significant career. --Chang-Rae Lee"
Born in Taipei to Malaysian parents, Tash Aw grew up in Kuala Lumpur before moving to Britainto attend university. He is the author of three critically acclaimed novels, "The Harmony SilkFactory "(2005), "Map of the Invisible World" (2009), and "Five Star Billionaire" (2013), which havewon the Whitbread First Novel Award, a regional Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and twice beenlonglisted for the Man Booker prize; they have also been translated into twenty-three languages.His short fiction has won an O. Henry Prize and been published in "A Public Space "and thelandmark Granta 100, amongst others."
General Fields
- :
- : Regan Arts
- : Restless Books
- : 0.07
- : February 2016
- : 152mm X 114mm
- : United States
- : April 2016
- : books
Special Fields
- : Tash Aw
- : Paperback
- : Apr-16
- : en
- : 899.28
- : 128
