Tash Aw





Tash Aw

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born
October 04, 1971 in Taipei, Taiwan

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Joseph Conrad, Vladimir Nabokov, Anthony Burgess, William Faulkner and...more


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Born in Taiwan to Malaysian parents, Tash Aw grew up in Kuala Lumpur before moving to England in his teens. He studied law at the University of Cambridge and University of Warwick, then moved to London to write. After graduating he worked at a number of jobs, including as a lawyer for four years whilst writing his debut novel, which he completed during the creative writing course at the University of East Anglia. Based on royalties as well as prizes, Aw is the most successful Malaysian writer of recent years. Following the announcement of the Booker longlist, the Whitbread Award and his Commonwealth Writers' Prize, he became a celebrity in Malaysia and Singapore, and is now one of the most respected literary figures in Southeast Asia.


Average rating: 3.29 · 861 ratings · 164 reviews · 3 distinct works
The Harmony Silk Factory
3.33 of 5 stars 3.33 avg rating — 599 ratings — published 2005 — 19 editions
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Map Of The Invisible World
3.19 of 5 stars 3.19 avg rating — 261 ratings — published 2009 — 13 editions
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“It's impossible to find happiness if you're an orphan."
"That's not true. Orphans are the only ones who are free to find their own happiness; they don't have their own history so they create it for themselves."
"But, Z, that's just an illusion. Their lives are determined for them by people who have no relation to them whatsoever -- total strangers dictate their future. They have no attachment to anything, they stumble around in the dark until one day something happens to set them on a different, random path. I don't call that freedom."
"But that's just what it's like for all of us!”
Tash Aw, Map Of The Invisible World

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