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Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
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 ...Show more
Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
In this stunning new novel, Tash Aw charts the overlapping lives of migrant Malaysian workers, forging lives for themselves in sprawling Shanghai. Justin is from a family of successful property developers. Phoebe has come to China buoyed with hope, but her dreams are shattered within hours as the job sh ...Show more
Map of the Invisible World by Tash Aw
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
From the author of the internationally acclaimed, Whitbread Award-winning 'The Harmony Silk Factory' comes an enthralling new novel that evokes an exotic yet turbulent and often frightening world. 16-year-old Adam is an orphan three times over. He and his older brother, Johan, were abandoned by their mo ...Show more
Map of the Invisible World by Tash Aw
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
Brothers Johan and Adam grow up in an Indonesian orphanage but are separated when Johan is adopted by a rich Malaysian couple and taken to Kuala Lumpur by a wealthy Malaysian couple, to a life of smart restaurants and expensive cars, whilst Adam remains in Indonesia where he is adopted by a Dutch painte ...Show more
Strangers on a Pier - Portrait of a Family by Tash Aw
$25.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general | Reading Level: very good
'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 wil ...Show more
The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A brilliant novel (now being translated into many languages around the world for simultaneous publication in 2005) from a genuinely exciting new voice in fiction. A novel for anyone who enjoyed The English Patient. Set in Malaysia in the 1930s and '40s, with the rumbling of World War II in the backgrou ...Show more
The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
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 Facto ...Show more
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