New York:: Riverhead Books,, (2005). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. The author's first novel - "The Harmony Silk Factory is the textiles store run by Johnny Lim, a Chinese peasant living in rural Malay in the first half of the twentieth century. It is the most impressive and truly amazing structure in the region, and to the inhabitants of the Kinta Valley Johnny Lim is a hero-a Communist who fought the Japanese when they invaded, ready to sacrifice his life for the welfare of his people. But to his son, Jasper, Johnny is a crook and a collaborator who betrayed the very people he pretended to serve, and the Harmony Silk Factory is merely a front for his father's illegal businesses." SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Whitbread award. 378 pp.

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Joseph Conrad, W. Somerset Maugham, and Anthony Burgess have shaped our perceptions of Malaysia. In Tash Aw, we now have an authentic Malaysian voice that remaps this literary landscape. The Harmony Silk Factory traces the story of textile merchant Johnny Lim, a Chinese peasant living in British Malaya in the first half of the twentieth century. Johnny's factory is the most impressive structure in the region, and to the inhabitants of the Kinta Valley Johnny is a hero—a Communist who fought the Japanese when they invaded, ready to sacrifice his life for the welfare of his people. But to his son, Jasper, Johnny is a crook and a collaborator who betrayed the very people he pretended to serve, and the Harmony Silk Factory is merely a front for his father's illegal businesses. This debut novel from Tash Aw gives us an exquisitely written look into another culture at a moment of crisis. The Harmony Silk Factory won the 2005 Whitbread First Novel Award and also made it to the 2005 Man Booker longlist.

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Bookseller: Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 63660
Title: THE HARMONY SILK FACTORY.
Author: Aw, Tash
Format/Binding: SIGNED hardcover first edition -
Book Condition: Used - Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Jacket Condition: like
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 157322300X
ISBN 13: 9781573223003
Publisher: Riverhead Books,
Place of Publication: New York:
Date Published: (2005)
Keywords: malaysia, chinese, historical fiction, whitbread award,
Bookseller catalogs: First book or first novel;

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