Map of the Invisible World (First Edition)

Aw, Tash

ISBN 10: 0385527969 / ISBN 13: 9780385527965

Published by Spiegel & Grau, New York, 2010

About this Item

New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2009. First edition, first printing, with full number line including the 1. Hardcover. Very Fine in a very fine dust jacket. Publisher's original price intact on jacket flap ($25.00). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight, clean copy. Octavo, 384 pages. A historical novel set in 1960s Indonesia during Sukarno's year of living dangerously, portraying political upheaval through the intertwined stories of two brothers separated in childhood. Aw, born in Taipei in 1971 to Malaysian-Chinese parents and raised in Kuala Lumpur, is the author of several acclaimed novels including "The Harmony Silk Factory" (winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award and Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Novel) and "Five Star Billionaire" (long-listed for the Booker Prize).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Map of the Invisible World (First Edition)
• Publisher: Spiegel & Grau, New York
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385527969
• ISBN 13: 9780385527965
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New

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Synopsis

From the author of the internationally acclaimed, award-winning The Harmony Silk Factory comes an enthralling new novel that evokes an exotic yet turbulent and often frightening time and place. Map of the Invisible World is the masterly, psychologically rich tale of three lives indelibly marked by the past—their own and Indonesia's.

    Sixteen-year-old Adam is an orphan three times over. He and his brother, Johan, were abandoned by their mother as children; then Adam watched as Johan was adopted and taken away by a wealthy couple; and now Adam is hiding because Karl, the man who raised him—and who is Dutch but long ago turned his back on the country of his ancestors—has been arrested by soldiers during Sukarno's drive to purge 1960s Indonesia of its colonial past.

    All Adam has to guide him in his quest to find Karl are some old photos and letters, which send him to the colorful, dangerous capital, Jakarta, and to Margaret, an American whose own past is bound up with Karl's. Soon both have embarked on journeys of discovery that seem destined to turn tragic.

    Woven hauntingly into this page-turning story is the voice of Johan, who is living a seemingly carefree, privileged life in Malaysia, but one that is careening out of control as he struggles to forget his long-ago betrayal of his helpless, trusting brother.

    Map of the Invisible World confirms Tash Aw as one of the most exciting young voices on the international literary scene.

About the Author

Tash Aw's debut novel, The Harmony Silk Factory, was the winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Novel and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Malaysian by birth, he now lives in London.