THE HARMONY SILK FACTORY
$35.00 USD • Used
orange cloth, 362, new, first UK edition, first impression in mylar protective d.j. Long-listed for the 2005 Man Booker prize, " Tash Aw's extraordinary first novel , juxtaposes three accounts of ...
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orange cloth, 362, new, first UK edition, first impression in mylar protective d.j. Long-listed for the 2005 Man Booker prize, " Tash Aw's extraordinary first novel , juxtaposes three accounts of a crucial and haunting episode in the history of a Malayasian Chinese family." (from the dust jacket. Size: 8vo
From Publisher:
A brilliant novel from a genuinely exciting new voice in British fiction. A novel for anyone who enjoyed The English Patient.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 Valley's most prominent families, who dies giving birth to one of the novel's 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. It will be one of the most talked about and admired novels of 2005.Product Info
ISBN: 000718204X
ISBN-13: 9780007182046
Publisher: Fourth Estate Ltd
Year: 2005
Type: Used
Binding: Hardcover
First Edition
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