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portada We, the Survivors
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Year
2020
Language
English
Pages
336
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
21.0 x 13.7 x 1.8 cm
Weight
0.37 kg.
ISBN13
9781250757920

We, the Survivors

Tash Aw (Author) · Picador · Paperback

We, the Survivors - Tash Aw

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Synopsis "We, the Survivors "

From the author of The Harmony Silk Factory and Five Star Billionaire, a compelling depiction of a man's act of violence, set against the backdrop of Asia in flux Ah Hock is an ordinary man of simple means. Born and raised in a Malaysian fishing village, he favors stability above all, a preference at odds with his rapidly modernizing surroundings. So what brings him to kill a man? This question leads a young, privileged journalist to Ah Hock's door. While the victim has been mourned and the killer has served time for the crime, Ah Hock's motive remains unclear, even to himself. His vivid confession unfurls over extensive interviews with the journalist, herself a local whose life has taken a very different course. The process forces both the speaker and his listener to reckon with systems of power, race, and class in a place where success is promised to all yet delivered only to its lucky heirs. An uncompromising portrait of an outsider navigating a society in transition, Tash Aw's anti-nostalgic tale, We, the Survivors, holds its tension to the very end. In the wake of loss and destruction, hope is among the survivors.
Tash Aw
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Tash Aw, nacido como Aw Ta-Shii en Taipei en 1971 y criado en Malasia, es un novelista que ha consolidado su lugar dentro de la literatura contemporánea en lengua inglesa gracias a su exploración de temas como la migración, la identidad y las tensiones culturales del sudeste asiático. Su prosa se distingue por un estilo elegante y reflexivo, capaz de dar voz a personajes que se mueven entre fronteras geográficas y emocionales. Con una carrera que lo ha llevado a vivir en diferentes países, su escritura refleja un profundo interés por los cruces de mundos y las historias invisibles de quienes transitan entre ellos.

Su primera novela, The Harmony Silk Factory, fue muy bien recibida y marcó el inicio de una trayectoria sólida. A lo largo de su obra, Aw ha desarrollado una narrativa donde lo íntimo y lo histórico se entrelazan con naturalidad, mostrando su talento para captar la complejidad del presente y las huellas del pasado. The South es un ejemplo claro de esta mirada, en la que el viaje y la búsqueda de sentido se convierten en ejes centrales de sus relatos.
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