01888nam a22002657i 4500003000500000005001700005008004100022020003800063040002500101082001500126100003000141245004000171250003600211264007000247264001100317300002300328336002100351337002500372338002300397520111200420650002101532650002001553655002601573655002301599PPAK20191112120140.0191112t20192005enk    g      000 1 engod  a9780007232284cRM49.90qpaperback  aPPAKbengcPPAKerda04223a823.921 aAw, Tash,d1971-eauthor.10aThe Harmony Silk Factory /cTASH AW  a4th Estate paperback edition 23 1aLondon :b4th Estate, An imprint HarperCollins Publishers ;c2019 4c©2005  a362 pages :c20 cm  2rdacontentatext  2rdamediaaunmediated  2rdacarrieravolume  aA landmark work of fiction from one of Britain's most exciting new writers: The Harmony Silk Factory is a devastating love story set against the turmoil of mid-twentieth century Malaysia. Set in Malaysia in the 1930s and 40s, with the rumbling of the Second World War in the background and the Japanese about to invade, The Harmony Silk Factory is the story of four people: Johnny, an infamous Chinaman - a salesman, a fraudster, possibly a murderer - whose shop house, The Harmony Silk Factory, he uses as a front for his illegal businesses; Snow Soong, the beautiful daughter of one of the Kinta Valley's most prominent families, who dies giving birth to one of the novel's narrators; Kunichika, a Japanese officer who loves Snow too; and an Englishman, Peter Wormwood, who went to Malaysia like many English but never came back, who also loved Snow to the end of his life. A journey the four of them take into the jungle has a devastating effect on all of them, and brilliantly exposes the cultural tensions of the era. Haunting, highly original, The Harmony Silk Factory is suspenseful to the last page.14aMalaysia fiction20aEnglish fiction7 aPsychological fiction7 aHistorical fiction