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The South

Af: Tash Aw Engelsk Paperback

The South

Af: Tash Aw Engelsk Paperback
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''A mesmerising tale. Both heartbreaking and joyful'' MICHAEL CUNNINGHAMA radiant novel of the longing that blooms between two boys over the course of one summer – about family, desire, and what we inherit – from celebrated author Tash Aw.''Shimmeringly intelligent and elegiacally intimate'' YIYUN LICHOSEN AS A TIMES, GUARDIAN and FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF 2025.When his grandfather dies, a boy named Jay travels south with his family to the property he left them, a once flourishing farm that has fallen into disrepair. The trees are diseased, the fields parched from months of drought.Still, Jay’s father, Jack, sends him out to work the land, or whatever land is left. Over the course of these hot, dense days, Jay finds himself drawn to Chuan, the son of the farm’s manager, different from him in every way except for one.Out in the fields, and on the streets into town, the charge between the boys intensifies. Inside the house, the other family members confront their own regrets, and begin to drift apart. Like the land around them, they are powerless to resist the global forces that threaten to render their lives obsolete.At once sweeping and intimate, The South is a story of what happens when private and public lives collide. It is the first in a quartet of novels that form Tash Aw’s masterful portrait of a family navigating a period of great change – a reimagined epic for our times.
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''A mesmerising tale. Both heartbreaking and joyful'' MICHAEL CUNNINGHAMA radiant novel of the longing that blooms between two boys over the course of one summer – about family, desire, and what we inherit – from celebrated author Tash Aw.''Shimmeringly intelligent and elegiacally intimate'' YIYUN LICHOSEN AS A TIMES, GUARDIAN and FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF 2025.When his grandfather dies, a boy named Jay travels south with his family to the property he left them, a once flourishing farm that has fallen into disrepair. The trees are diseased, the fields parched from months of drought.Still, Jay’s father, Jack, sends him out to work the land, or whatever land is left. Over the course of these hot, dense days, Jay finds himself drawn to Chuan, the son of the farm’s manager, different from him in every way except for one.Out in the fields, and on the streets into town, the charge between the boys intensifies. Inside the house, the other family members confront their own regrets, and begin to drift apart. Like the land around them, they are powerless to resist the global forces that threaten to render their lives obsolete.At once sweeping and intimate, The South is a story of what happens when private and public lives collide. It is the first in a quartet of novels that form Tash Aw’s masterful portrait of a family navigating a period of great change – a reimagined epic for our times.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 0
ISBN-13: 9780008637613
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 000863761X
Udg. Dato: 13 feb 2025
Længde: 24mm
Bredde: 216mm
Højde: 134mm
Forlag: HarperCollins Publishers
Oplagsdato: 13 feb 2025
Forfatter(e): Tash Aw
Forfatter(e) Tash Aw


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ISBN-13 9780008637613


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 0


Udgave


Længde 24mm


Bredde 216mm


Højde 134mm


Udg. Dato 13 feb 2025


Oplagsdato 13 feb 2025


Forlag HarperCollins Publishers

Kategori sammenhænge