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The South
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025 'Spellbinding' THE TIMES 'An exquisite, languorous novel' OBSERVER 'Heartstoppingly vivid' OISÍN MCKENNA
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The South
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025'Spellbinding' THE TIMES'An exquisite, languorous novel' OBSERVER'Heartstoppingly vivid' OISÍN MCKENNA A radiant novel of the 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 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.
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A Woman's Battles and Transformations
Édouard Louis is one of the most important literary voices of his generation' GuardianOne day, Édouard Louis finds a photograph of his mother from twenty years ago: a happy young woman, full of hopes and dreams. But growing up, Édouard only knew his mother's sadness - what happened in those years since the photo was taken? Then, at the age of forty-five, Édouard's mother frees herself from this life of oppression, to start a new one in Paris.A Woman's Battles and Transformations reckons with the cruel systems that govern our lives - and with the possibility of escape. It is a tender portrait of a mother, and an honouring of her self-discovery as she chooses to live on her own terms.'Tash Aw's sensitive translation captures the vividness of Louis's voice... Movingly, the book demonstrates the pain that moving from one social class to another entails' Times Literary Supplement 'A tenderness of observation' New York Times'Incandescent...Louis's most hopeful book to date' Los Angeles TimesTranslated from the French by Tash Aw
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We, the Survivors
A murderer’s confession – devastating, unblinking, poignant, unforgettable – which reveals a story of class, education and the inescapable workings of destiny.
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Armoni Ipek Fabrikasi
2005 Whitbread Ilk Roman Ödülü1940li yillarin Malayasinda, dönemin yeni zengin Cinli tüccarlarin Johny Limin, yasadisi isler icin paravan olarak kullandigi Armoni Ipek Fabrikasi ile Kinta Vadisinin en varlikli ve en güzel kizi Snow Soongla evliligi etrafinda dönen karanlik bir yasamöyküsü.Johnnynin öyküsünü ölümünün ardindan üc kisinin; oglu Jasperin karisi Snowun ve sürgünde bir Ingiliz olan dostu Peter Wormwoodun agzindan dinliyoruz. Johnny, bir bakiyorsunuz komünist bir lider, bir bakiyorsunuz bir Japon casusu, tehlikeli bir karaborsaci, aristokrat karisina dokunamayacak kadar hayran, isci sinifindan bir Cinli ya da sadik bir dost olu veriyor.Johnnynin yasamina heyecanla taniklik ederken Malezyayi da Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham ve Anthoney Burgessten sonra Tash Awin kaleminden yeniden kesfedecegiz.Ilk tepki Müthis Ikinci tepki Mutlaka okunmali - Asian WeekBüyüleyici bir anlatim sürprizlerle dolu bir öyküelinizden düsmeyecek - London TimesSon derece egzotik, carpici bir ilk roman. Aw, duygu yüklü, yetenekli bir yazar - Daily MailMüthis bir anlatim, unutulmaz bir hikaye Cok basarili bir ilk roman San Francisco Chronicle
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The South
Long-listed for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionFinalist for the Publishing Triangle Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ+ FictionNamed one of The New York Times' Notable Books of the Year One of The Washington Post's Best Fiction Books of the YearA radiant, intimate novel of the longing that blooms between two boys over the course of one summer-about family, desire, and what we inherit.When his grandfather dies, Jay travels south with his family to the property they've inherited, a once-flourishing farm that has fallen into disrepair. The trees are diseased, the fields parched from months of drought.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 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 begin to confront their own secrets and regrets. Jack is a professor at a struggling local college whose failures might have begun when he married his student, Sui Ching. Sui Ching does her best to keep the family together, though she too wonders what her life could have been. And Fong, the manager, refuses to look at what is: at Chuan, at the land, at the global forces that threaten to render his whole life obsolete.At once sweeping and compressed, Tash Aw's The South is a family novel of change and desire-a story of what happens when public and private lives collide, told with uncommon grace and beauty.
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Sister
Tash Aw
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Vreemdelingen op een kade
Een familiekroniekIn Vreemdelingen op een kade tekent schrijver Tash Aw een belangwekkend en inzichtelijk portret van het moderne Azië op aan de hand van de migratiegeschiedenis van zijn eigen familie. Zijn grootvader verliet in de jaren twintig van de vorige eeuw het vasteland van China, op zoek naar een nieuw leven in Maleisië. Tash Aw beschrijft de jaren die volgden door vele verhalen te vervlechten tot één geheel. Dat verhaal voert van kansloze immigranten naar succesvolle machthebbers, van afgelegen dorpjes naar nachtclubs in megasteden. Uit een kakofonie van stemmen in vele talen en dialecten distilleert Aw een bijzonder knap en complex beeld van een deel van de wereld dat nog altijd gevangen lijkt tussen een snel naderende toekomst en een verleden dat men niet wil loslaten.
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Strangers on a Pier
'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. From a taxi ride in present-day Bangkok, to eating Kentucky Fried Chicken in 1980s Kuala Lumpur, to his grandfathers' treacherous boat journeys to Malaysia from mainland China in the 1920s, Aw weaves together stories of insiders and outsiders, images from rural villages to megacity night clubs, and voices in a dizzying variety of languages, dialects, and slangs, to create an intricate and astoundingly vivid portrait of a place caught between the fast-approaching future and a past that won't let go.
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We, the Survivors
From the author of The Harmony Silk Factory and Five Star Billionaire, a compelling depiction of a man's act of violence, set against the backdrop of Asia in fluxAh Hock is an ordinary man of simple means. Born and raised in a Malaysian fishing village, he 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. An uncompromising portrait of an outsider navigating a society in transition, Tash Aw's anti-nostalgic tale, We, the Survivors, holds its tension to the very end. In the wake of loss and destruction, hope is among the survivors.
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Five Star Billionaire
Dreaming of love and success in rapidly changing Shanghai, four individuals--a starry-eyed waitress, a wealthy developer's son, a pop artist, and a poetry-loving activist--confront unexpected realities in regional challenges.
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Five Star Billionaire
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...
€ 14,00