Justin is from a family of successful property developers. Phoebe has come to China buoyed with hope, but her dreams are shattered within hours as the job she has come for seems never to have existed. Gary is a successful pop artist, but his fans and marketing machine disappear after a bar-room brawl. Yinghui has businesses that are going well but must make decisions about her life. And then there is Walter, the shadowy billionaire, ruthless and manipulative, ultimately alone in the world. In 'Five Star Billionaire', Tash Aw charts the weave of their journeys in the new China, counterpointing their adventures with the old life they have left behind in Malaysia.
'What a storyteller Tash Aw is. Unputdownable' Doris Lessing
'Bewitchingly written and gracefully assured ... Aw orchestrates a graceful ballet of dissonances and congruences, of echoes and discords' Neel Mukherjee, The Times
'Aw's prose can be powerful and mesmerising in its sense of place...Haunting and memorable' Maya Jaggi, Guardian
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About Tash Aw
Tash Aw is a recent graduate of UEA. He is Malaysian by birth but now lives in London. The Harmony Silk Factory is his first novel.
