The Harmony Silk Factory Tash Aw by Tash Aw 9780007303151, 0007303157, B0087OROSM instant download after payment.

Tash Aw’s acclaimed first novel is a multi-layered story of love and regret set against the turmoil of mid-20th century Malaysia. 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 is 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. A journey that four people take into the jungle has a devastating effect on all of them, and brilliantly exposes the cultural tensions of the era. The story revolves around an anti-hero called Johnny Lim - a salesman, a fraudster, possibly a murderer - whose life is narrated by three different people, with contradictory perspectives.

"Written with style and confidence, this refusal to tie up loose ends is one of the book's many strengths. Each section lays down its narrative tracks and over the course of the novel these tracks crisscross -- always adding to the picture but never completing it. Throughout there is the idea that with death everything is erased -- all traces and memories of the lives lived."  -  Marian McCarthy, The Age

Tash Aw studied law at the University of Cambridge and the University of Warwick.  After graduating he worked as a lawyer for four years whilst writing his debut novel, which he completed during the creative writing course at the University of East Anglia. Based on royalties as well as prizes, Aw is the most successful Malaysian writer of recent years receiving the Whitbread Award and his Commonwealth Writers' Prize.