Tash Aw: The South

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The author nominated several times for the Booker Prize tells the story of a Malaysian family in the late 1990s during the Asian financial crisis. Young Jay and his family manage his grandfather's farm, struggling against an oppressive jungle. A suffocating atmosphere reflects both the economic crisis and Jay's tumultuous coming-of-age. With simultaneous German translation.

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