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Author : Tash Aw
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1632060450
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Face written by Tash Aw and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-03 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A whirlwind personal history of modern Asia, as told through his Malaysian and Chinese heritage
Author : Tash Aw
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008421285
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)
Download or read book Strangers on a Pier: Portrait of a Family written by Tash Aw and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘So wise and so well done. It made me wish it were much longer than it is’ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie From the award-winning author of Five Star Billionaire and We, The Survivors comes a whirlwind personal history of modern Asia, as told through his Malaysian and Chinese heritage.
Author : Ruth Ozeki
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1632060523
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Face written by Ruth Ozeki and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-03 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revelatory short memoir from the author and Zen Buddhist priest Ruth Ozeki about how her face has shaped and been shaped by her life
Author : Tash Aw
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1588369838
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)
Download or read book Map of the Invisible World written by Tash Aw and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-01-05 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the internationally acclaimed The Harmony Silk Factory comes an enthralling novel that evokes an exotic yet turbulent place and time—1960s Indonesia during President Sukarno’s drive to purge the country of its colonial past. A page-turning story, Map of the Invisible World follows the journeys of two brothers and an American woman who are indelibly marked by the past—and swept up in the tides of history.
Author : Chris Abani
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1632060434
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Face written by Chris Abani and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-03 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nigerian-born author and poet Chris Abani gives a profound and gorgeously wrought short memoir that navigates the stories written upon his own face. Beginning with his early childhood immersed in the lgbo culture of West Africa, Abani unfurls a lushly poetic, insightful, and funny narrative that investigates the roles that race, culture, and language play in fashioning our sense of self
Author : Tash Aw
Publisher : Restless Books
ISBN 13 : 1632060590
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Face: Strangers on a Pier written by Tash Aw and published by Restless Books. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the the award-winning author of Five Star Billionaire and The Harmony Silk Factory comes a whirlwind personal history of modern Asia, as told through his Malaysian and Chinese heritage. In The Face: Strangers on a Pier, acclaimed author Tash Aw explores the panoramic cultural vitality of modern Asia through his own complicated family story of migration and adaptation, which is reflected in his own face. From a taxi ride in present-day Bangkok, to eating Kentucky Fried Chicken in 1980s Kuala Lumpur, to his grandfathers’ treacherous boat journeys to Malaysia from mainland China in the 1920s, Aw weaves together stories of insiders and outsiders, images from rural villages to megacity night clubs, and voices in a dizzying variety of languages, dialects, and slangs, to create an intricate and astoundingly vivid portrait of a place caught between the fast-approaching future and a past that won’t let go. “Mr. Aw is a patient writer, and an elegant one. His supple yet unshowy prose can resemble Kazuo Ishiguro's.… He's a writer to watch." —Dwight Garner, The New York Times “Tash Aw is an essential voice for the global world we live in today." —Yiyun Li, author of Gold Boy, Emerald Girl “Aw is emerging as a master storyteller.' —The Times “Aw's prose can be powerful and mesmerising in its sense of place…and psychological acuity. Haunting and memorable.” —Maya Jaggi, The Guardian Born in Taipei to Malaysian parents, Tash Aw grew up in Kuala Lumpur before moving to Britain to attend university. He is the author of three critically acclaimed novels, The Harmony Silk Factory (2005), Map of the Invisible World (2009), and Five Star Billionaire (2013), which have won the Whitbread First Novel Award, a regional Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and twice been longlisted for the Man Booker prize; they have also been translated into twenty-three languages. His short fiction has won an O. Henry Prize and been published in A Public Space and the landmark Granta 100, amongst others.
Author : Tash Aw
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008318565
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)
Download or read book We, The Survivors written by Tash Aw and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A murderer’s confession – devastating, unblinking, poignant, unforgettable – which reveals a story of class, education and the inescapable workings of destiny.
Author : Julie Powell
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316054488
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)
Download or read book Cleaving written by Julie Powell and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julie Powell thought cooking her way through Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking was the craziest thing she'd ever do -- until she embarked on the voyage recounted in her memoir, Cleaving. Her marriage challenged by an insane, irresistible love affair, Julie decides to leave town and immerse herself in a new obsession: butchery. She finds her way to Fleischer's, a butcher shop where she buries herself in the details of food. She learns how to break down a side of beef and French a rack of ribs -- tough physical work that only sometimes distracts her from thoughts of afternoon trysts. The camaraderie at Fleischer's leads Julie to search out fellow butchers around the world -- from South America to Europe to Africa. At the end of her odyssey, she has learned a new art and perhaps even mastered her unruly heart.
Author : Mitch Albom
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0748112634
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Five People You Meet In Heaven written by Mitch Albom and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2009-06-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE INSPIRATIONAL CLASSIC FROM THE MASTER STORYTELLER WHOSE BOOKS HAVE TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF OVER 40 MILLION READERS 'Mitch Albom sees the magical in the ordinary' Cecilia Ahern _________ To his mind, Eddie has lived an uninspiring life. Now an old man, his job is to fix rides at a seaside amusement park. On his eighty-third birthday, Eddie's time on earth comes to an end. When a cart falls from the fairground, he rushes to save a little girl's life and tragically dies in the attempt. When Eddie awakens, he learns that the afterlife is not a destination, but a place where your existence is explained to you by five people - some of whom you knew, others who were ostensibly strangers. One by one, from childhood to soldier to old age, five individuals revisit their connections to Eddie on earth, illuminating the mysteries of his 'meaningless' life and revealing the haunting secret behind the eternal question: 'Why was I here?' __________ WHAT READERS SAY ABOUT THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN 'Breathtakingly beautiful. A story that will stay with you forever' 'A beautiful and flawlessly choreographed book . . . No other book may ever compare' 'One of my favourite books . . . Wonderful, inspirational, and heart-warming! To me, it is a MUST READ! 'The book is beyond words . . . Well written, engaging, poignant' 'This really is a wonderful book. You should read it'
Author : Leah Hager Cohen
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698409647
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)
Download or read book Strangers and Cousins written by Leah Hager Cohen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR One of Christian Science Monitor's BEST FICTION OF 2019 "Funny and tender but also provocative and wise. . . One of the most hopeful and insightful novels I've read in years." - Ron Charles, The Washington Post "Serious yet joyous comedy, reminiscent of the Pultizer-winning Less" - Out Magazine A novel about what happens when an already sprawling family hosts an even larger and more chaotic wedding: an entertaining story about family, culture, memory, and community. In the seemingly idyllic town of Rundle Junction, Bennie and Walter are preparing to host the wedding of their eldest daughter Clem. A marriage ceremony at their beloved, rambling home should be the happiest of occasions, but Walter and Bennie have a secret. A new community has moved to Rundle Junction, threatening the social order and forcing Bennie and Walter to confront uncomfortable truths about the lengths they would go to to maintain harmony. Meanwhile, Aunt Glad, the oldest member of the family, arrives for the wedding plagued by long-buried memories of a scarring event that occurred when she was a girl in Rundle Junction. As she uncovers details about her role in this event, the family begins to realize that Clem's wedding may not be exactly what it seemed. Clever, passionate, artistic Clem has her own agenda. What she doesn't know is that by the end, everyone will have roles to play in this richly imagined ceremony of familial connection-a brood of quirky relatives, effervescent college friends, ghosts emerging from the past, a determined little mouse, and even the very group of new neighbors whose presence has shaken Rundle Junction to its core. With Strangers and Cousins, Leah Hager Cohen delivers a story of pageantry and performance, hopefulness and growth, and introduces a winsome, unforgettable cast of characters whose lives are forever changed by events that unfold and reverberate across generations.
