The Harmony Silk Factory ++++ A SIGNED & LINED UK FIRST EDITION - FIRST PRINTING HARDBACK ++++

Tash Aw

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ISBN 10: 000718204X ISBN 13: 9780007182046

Published by Fourth Estate, London, 2005

Language: English

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A near fine UK first edition, first printing in a near fine unclipped dustjacket fitted with a protective and removable mylar sleeve - All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days) - SIGNED & LINED BY THE AUTHOR - Pictures available upon request.

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Title: The Harmony Silk Factory ++++ A SIGNED & LINED UK FIRST EDITION - FIRST PRINTING HARDBACK ++++
Publisher: Fourth Estate, London
Publication Date: 2005
Language: English
ISBN 10: 000718204X
ISBN 13: 9780007182046
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Printing: 1st Printing
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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A brilliant novel from a genuinely exciting new voice in British fiction. A novel for anyone who enjoyed The English Patient. 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. Haunting, highly original, The Harmony Silk Factory is suspenseful to the last page.

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Tash Aw is a recent graduate of UEA. He is Malaysian by birth but now lives in London. This is his first novel.

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