The Harmony Silk Factory

Name: The Harmony Silk Factory
Brand: Riverhead Books
SKU: 9781594481741
Price: 1796.00 INR
Availability: InStock

by Tash Aw

Riverhead Books · 2006 · Paperback

Tash Aw's novel follows Johnny Lim, a Chinese textile merchant in British Malaya during the first half of the twentieth century. Suits readers of historical fiction and Malaysian writing.

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About this book

Earlier writers such as Conrad, Maugham and Burgess formed the Western image of Malaysia. Tash Aw brings a Malaysian voice that changes that picture, and this novel is his account of a people left out of those earlier writings.

The story traces Johnny Lim, a textile merchant who was a Chinese peasant in British Malaya. His silk factory is the most impressive building of its kind in the region, and the novel follows his fortunes, and the lives around him, through the Kinta Valley.

Readers of historical fiction and of Southeast Asian literature, and anyone curious about colonial Malaya seen from within, are the natural audience for the book.

Edition note: published by Riverhead Books. ISBN-13: 9781594481741.