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Tash Aw

Born

in Taipei, Taiwan

October 04, 1971

Website

http://www.tash-aw.com

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Genre

Literature & Fiction

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Born in Taiwan to Malaysian parents, Tash Aw grew up in Kuala Lumpur before moving to England in his teens. He studied law at the University of Cambridge and University of Warwick, then moved to London to write. After graduating he worked at a number of jobs, including as a lawyer for four years whilst writing his debut novel, which he completed during the creative writing course at the University of East Anglia. Based on royalties as well as prizes, Aw is the most successful Malaysian writer of recent years. Following the announcement of the Booker longlist, the Whitbread Award and his Commonwealth Writers' Prize, he became a celebrity in Malaysia and Singapore, and is now one of the most respected literary figures in Southeast Asia. ...more

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Average rating: 3.62 · 16,251 ratings · 2,424 reviews · 23 distinct works • Similar authors

	Five Star Billionaire 3.47 avg rating — 4,683 ratings — published 2013 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Harmony Silk Factory 3.46 avg rating — 2,739 ratings — published 2005 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We, The Survivors 3.66 avg rating — 2,190 ratings — published 2019 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The South 3.67 avg rating — 1,988 ratings — published 2025 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Face: Strangers on a Pier 4.17 avg rating — 1,308 ratings — published 2016 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Map of the Invisible World 3.44 avg rating — 1,272 ratings — published 2009 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tiger 2.82 avg rating — 445 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Parigi by Tash Aw, Ludivine Bantigny, Bernard Chambaz really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 271 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The South: A Novel 3.91 avg rating — 22 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	X-24: Unclassified by Tash Aw, Nii Ayikwei Parkes (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Clare Wigfall 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Man is a restless creature, nomadic at heart.”
― Tash Aw, Map of the Invisible World

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“Time — how it expands to fill the spaces you create; how it makes meagre experiences seem never-ending. Whenever he heard people talk about the ravages of time, about how it robbed and deprived, Justin always smiled; because for him, time was an accomplice, plugging the gaps and fleshing out morsels of memory so he would have something substantial to hang on to. That way, however little he had seen or felt, he would always feel as if he had more: a life far richer than the truth.”
― Tash Aw, Five Star Billionaire

tags: memory, time

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“about “closure” and how worthless it was—why was it that everyone these days needed resolution, why couldn’t they just accept that life was messy, that it never ended neatly?”
― Tash Aw, Five Star Billionaire

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2013 Empire Challenge: Fiction - The East (incl. the Far East & the Middle East)

The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng

6 votes, 19.4%

The Village in the Jungle by Leonard Woolf

6 votes, 19.4%

The Singapore Grip by J.G. Farrell

4 votes, 12.9%

The Jewel in the Crown by Paul Scott

4 votes, 12.9%

Rain and Other South Sea Stories by W. Somerset Maugham

2 votes, 6.5%

Far Eastern Tales by W. Somerset Maugham

2 votes, 6.5%

The Ginger Tree by Oswald Wynd

2 votes, 6.5%

Kim by Rudyard Kipling

2 votes, 6.5%

The Harbour by Francesca Brill

1 vote, 3.2%

The Last Kashmiri Rose by Barbara Cleverly

1 vote, 3.2%

All About H. Hatterr by G.V. Desani

1 vote, 3.2%

The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh

0 votes, 0.0%

The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw

0 votes, 0.0%

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