01973nam a22003017i 4500 174908 174908 PPAK 20191112120140.0 191112t20192005enk g 000 1 engod 9780007232284 RM49.90 paperback PPAK eng PPAK rda 23 823.92 823.92 AWT G Aw, Tash, 1971- author. The Harmony Silk Factory / TASH AW 4th Estate paperback edition 23 London : 4th Estate, An imprint HarperCollins Publishers ; 2019 ©2005 362 pages : 20 cm rdacontent text rdamedia unmediated rdacarrier volume A 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. Malaysia fiction English fiction Psychological fiction Historical fiction ddc B 0 0 PPAK G 2019-11-24 823.92 AWT A01619932 2019-11-24 00:00:00 B 0 0 BL G 2019-11-24 1 1 823.92 AWT A01619933 2020-09-28 00:00:00 2020-08-18 B 0 0 SP G 2019-11-24 823.92 AWT A01619934 2019-11-24 00:00:00 B