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The
2007 Award
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The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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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. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
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Tash Aw is a recent graduate of UEA. He is Malaysian by birth but now lives in London. The Harmony Silk Factory is his first novel and was the winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award 2005. |
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