The face : strangers on a pier
(2016)
By: Aw, Tash

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[United States] : Restless Books, 2016
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ISBN/ISSN
9781632060594 MWT15035204, 1632060590 15035204
LANGUAGE
English
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LA Times Book Prize Finalist: The Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose "Tash Aw's The Face, so wise and so well done, made me wish it were much longer than it is." -Chimamanda Adichie, The Guardian's Best Books of 2016 From the award-winning author of Five Star Billionaire and The Harmony Silk Factory comes a whirlwind personal history of modern Asia, as told through his Malaysian and Chinese heritage. In The Face: Strangers on a Pier, acclaimed author Tash Aw explores the panoramic cultural vitality of modern Asia through his own complicated family story of migration and adaptation, which is reflected in his own face. From a taxi ride in present-day Bangkok, to eating Kentucky Fried Chicken in 1980s Kuala Lumpur, to his grandfathers' treacherous boat journeys to Malaysia from mainland China in the 1920s, Aw weaves together stories of insiders and outsiders, images from rural villages to megacity night clubs, and voices in a dizzying variety of languages, dialects, and slangs, to create an intricate and astoundingly vivid portrait of a place caught between the fast-approaching future and a past that won't let go. Alternately philosophical, funny, personal, political, and poetic, the short memoirs in The Face series offer unique perspectives from some of our favorite writers. Find out more at www.restlessbooks.com/the-face

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