~ Trade Paperback

~ Winner of the Whitbread Award for First Novel - 2005, Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in South East Asia and Pacific - 2006

An exquisitely written look into another culture at a moment of crisis, The Harmony Silk Factory traces the story of textile merchant Johnny Lim, a business man and communist hero, and his son, Jasper, who sees his father as a crook and collaborator who betrayed his people . . .

Joseph Conrad, W. Somerset Maugham, and Anthony Burgess have shaped the west's  perceptions of Malaysia, but in Tash Aw readers now have an authentic Malaysian voice that remaps this literary landscape.