The South
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ePUB 3
Kopierschutz
Ja
Family Sharing
Ja
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
13.02.2025
Verlag
HarperCollinsSeitenzahl
288 (Printausgabe)
Dateigröße
2101 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9780008637620
A 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.
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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Quitely Powerful
If I had to describe this book in two words it would be 'quitely powerful'. Despite its barely 300 pages Aw manages to give the reader the full scope of a family dynamic and its interaction to the wider political climate of the setting. My main critique is that I had a somewhat hard time finding my footing in the setting. Neither from the blurb nor from the first couple of chapters could I have known that this story is set in Malaysia. I had also assumed that the lack of specific time given was a choice made by the author, yet other online reviews give it as 1997, a year marked by the Asian financial crisis. The prose is definitely more on the slow and melancholic side, so be warned, it isn't everyone's cup of tea. Overall, I enjoyed reading The South and its themes invite readers to ruminate even after finishing the book.
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