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Strangers on a pier : portrait of a family

Aw, Tash2021
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Novelist Tash Aw explores the panoramic cultural vitality of modern Asia through his own complicated family story of migration and adaptation. From a taxi ride in present-day Bangkok, to eating Kentucky Fried Chicken in 1980s Kuala Lumpur, to his grandfathers' treacherous boat journeys to mainland China in the 1920s, Aw weaves together stories of insiders and outsiders, images from rural villages to megacity nightclubs and voices in a dizzying variety of dialects and slangs.
Author:
Aw, Tash, author
Imprint:
London : 4th Estate, 2021.
Collation:
91 pages ; 21 cm
Notes:
Originally published: as The face. New York: Restless Books, 2015.
ISBN:
9780008421274 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
823.92920920 AWAWB AWB
Language:
English
Added title:
BRN:
282833
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