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Strangers on a pier : portrait of a family / Tash Aw.

Strangers on a pier : portrait of a family / Tash Aw.
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B 823.92 AW
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ISBN 9780008421274 (hardback)
Name Aw, Tash author.
Uniform title Face
Title Strangers on a pier : portrait of a family / Tash Aw.
Published London : 4th Estate, 2021.
©2021
Description 91 pages : illustration ; 21 cm.
Notes Originally published as 'The face: strangers on a pier'. Brooklyn: Restless Books, 2016.
Summary This is a personal history of modern Asia, as told through the author's Malaysian and Chinese heritage. 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.
Subjects Aw, Tash
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography
Authors, Malaysian -- 20th century -- Biography
Chinese -- Malaysia -- Biography
Families -- Malaysia -- Social life and customs
Malaysia -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Genre Autobiographies
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