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'A fine, strong, confident novel – and what a storyteller Tash Aw is. Unputdownable’
Doris Lessing
'The Harmony Silk Factory is an utterly remarkable debut. It's a dream of a novel, lovely and exquisite and intense, and reveals Tash Aw's already prodigious gift for storytelling; this young writer has come to us fully formed, and with the promise of a long and significant career.' Chang-rae Lee
'Bewitchingly written and gracefully assured … The story Aw tells is mercilessly gripping and his prose is lucid, uncluttered, beautiful … Aw orchestrates a graceful ballet of dissonances and congruences, of echoes and discords.' Neel Mukherjee, The Times
'Tash Aw's striking debut is as elusive as it is exotic. Aw is a skilled and sensitive writer' Daily Mail
'Absorbing … a rich, intense novel … The strength of Tash Aw's writing can be seen in the three narratives. Each voice is distinct and each offers a subtly different viewpoint, remaking the material afresh … The beauty and danger of nature are everywhere in this delicately drawn novel' TLS
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The novel follows the story of Johnny Lim, a man of whispered reputation. No-one is quite sure if he's a hero or a gangster, a capitalist business man or a Communist leader. His story is told by three different narrators - his son Jasper, his wife Snow, and his friend Peter. Each relate part of Johnny's story, at times over-lapping and giving different interpretations of the man and his actions.
What makes the book work so well is the way Aw combines an epic, at time mythic, feel with wonderful small details. His chosen structure keeps mysteries alive until the end, and he writes wonderfully. The more I say the less you'll have to discover for yourself, so I'll keep it brief. What I will say is that if you're interested in the getting in at the start with an author who will become a big name in the future, order yourself a copy of 'The Harmony Silk Factory'.
There are one or two problems, for example I found Snow, the central female character, a little too cold even for her name. However the storytelling is so convincing that one overlooks these details. I wouldn't say that this book changed my life but it did teach me to look at my country and surroundings in a new light. I'm also glad that Malaysians are reading and talking about a book that doesn't involve hobbits, spells or secret codes.
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