The Harmony Silk Factory
by Tash Aw | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0007232284 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0007232284 Global Overview for this book
Registered by Edwardstreet of Lower Hutt, Wellington Province New Zealand on 7/15/2017
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A landmark work of fiction from one of Britain's most exciting new writers: 'The Harmony Silk Factory' is a devastating love story set against the turmoil of mid-twentieth-century Malaysia. 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 Factory, he uses as a front for his illegal businesses; Snow Soong, the beautiful daughter of one of the Kinta Valley's most prominent families, who dies giving birth to one of the novel's narrators; Kunichika, a Japanese officer who loves Snow too; and an Englishman, Peter Wormwood, who went to Malaysia like many English but never came back, who also loved Snow to the end of his life. A journey the four of them take into the jungle has a devastating effect on all of them, and brilliantly exposes the cultural tensions of the era.
Journal Entry 5 by keeta1 at Pegler Drive Street Library in Howick, Auckland Province New Zealand on Tuesday, June 4, 2019
Released 4 yrs ago (6/4/2019 UTC) at Pegler Drive Street Library in Howick, Auckland Province New Zealand
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