{"title":"Tash Aw","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"five-star-billionaire","title":"Five Star Billionaire","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the Man Booker prize-longlisted Five Star Billionaire Tash Aw charts the overlapping lives of migrant Malaysian workers, forging lives for themselves in sprawling Shanghai.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eJustin 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.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIn 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. The result is a brilliant examination of the migrations that are shaping this dazzling new city, and their effect on these individual lives.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47263945359654,"sku":"DNNMA84P","price":49.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/c19eb626-b9da-4616-acb9-14cc49b31237.jpg?v=1701089131"},{"product_id":"we-the-survivors","title":"We, The Survivors","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA murderers confession  devastating, unblinking, poignant, unforgettable  which reveals a story of class, education and the inescapable workings of destiny.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAh Hock is an ordinary, uneducated man born in a Malaysian fishing village and now trying to make his way in a country that promises riches and security to everyone, but delivers them only to a chosen few. With Asian society changing around him, like many he remains trapped in a world of poorly paid jobs that just about allow him to keep his head above water but ultimately lead him to murder a migrant worker from Bangladesh.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the tradition of Camus and Houellebecq, Ah Hocks vivid and compelling description of the years building up to this appalling act of violence  told over several days to a local journalist whose life has taken a different course  is a portrait of an outsider like no other, an anti-nostalgic view of human life and the ravages of hope. 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Both heartbreaking and joyful'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eMICHAEL CUNNINGHAM\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA radiant novel of the longing that blooms between two boys over the course of one summer – about family, desire, and what we inherit – from celebrated author Tash Aw.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen his grandfather dies, a boy named Jay travels south with his family to the property he left them, a once flourishing farm that has fallen into disrepair. The trees are diseased, the fields parched from months of drought.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStill, Jay’s father, Jack, sends him out to work the land, or whatever land is left. 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