Books by Tash Aw
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review 1: such a letdown. i went in with good expectation what's with on the front cover stated that it was longlisted in man booker prize and then it centers around malaysian immigrant in Shanghai. i try to keep up hopes that it will pick up somewhere but NO. at first i could relate to tw...
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review 1: Overall, not a bad novel by an award-winning Malaysian author. It is well-written and it questions current social issues on terrorism and international rivalry and pride. Basically, the whole story is about letting go; how the twin brothers who were separated in the past sought t...
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review 1: This was a freebie from Kobo, a short story written by an author I've never heard of though apparently he's been long-listed for the Man Booker prize twice.The writing was beautiful and very much the sort of literary style that appeals to Man Booker judges. The story itself is a ...
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review 1: This book seems to purposefully confound my Western preconception that novels should have clear plots with everything resolved and tied up in a nice neat package at the end. In a parallel with the Indonesian tendency to see life as uncontrollable and that "you have to just take t...
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review 1: due fratelli orfani separati in tenera età, due paesi- la malesia ricca e quieta e l'indonesia agitata da tumulti e immersa in un clima di disfacimento, un'antropologa senza radici, il colonialismo e la sua fine. un romanzo ambizioso e pieno di atmosfera- che rende benissimo il s...
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review 1: Tash Aw tells a good story.This book based in the mid 60s in Indonesia, it discusses the impact of the change from Dutch Colonialism on the people of Indonesia, the rich, the poor, and those Westerners who wanted to stay part of Indonesia as it seemingly moves into civil war. Th...