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020			_a9781594481741
040			_cGESM
100	1		_a Aw, Tash
240	0	0	_aHarmony Silk Factory
245	0	0	_aHarmony Silk Factory _cTash Aw
260			_bPenguin Group US _c2006
300			_a408 p.
520			_aThe Harmony Silk Factory traces the story of textile merchant Johnny Lim, a Chinese peasant living in British Malaya in the first half of the twentieth century. Johnny's factory is the most impressive structure in the region, and to the inhabitants of the Kinta Valley Johnny is a hero-a Communist who fought the Japanese when they invaded, ready to sacrifice his life for the welfare of his people. But to his son, Jasper, Johnny is a crook and a collaborator who betrayed the very people he pretended to serve, and the Harmony Silk Factory is merely a front for his father's illegal businesses. This debut novel from Tash Aw gives us an exquisitely written look into another culture at a moment of crisis.
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