Tash Aw: The South

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The new novel by Tash Aw, a multiple Booker Prize nominee, follows Jay and his family in Malaysia in the late 1990s, struggling with his late grandfather's farm. The sultry, charged atmosphere becomes the backdrop for a sixteen-year-old's coming-of-age as he discovers desire in a nascent relationship, while the Asian financial crisis looms in the background.

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