LA Times Book Prize Finalist: The Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose "Tash Aw's The Face, so wise and so well done, made me wish it were much longer than it is." --Chimamanda Adichie, The Guardian's Best Books of 2016 From the award-winning author of Five Star Billionaire and The Harmony Silk Factory comes a whirlwind personal history of modern Asia, as told through his Malaysian and Chinese heritage. In The Face: Strangers on a Pier, acclaimed author Tash Aw explores the panoramic cultural vitality of modern Asia through his own complicated family story of migration and adaptation, which is reflected in his own face. From a taxi ride in present-day Bangkok, to eating Kentucky Fried Chicken in 1980s Kuala Lumpur, to his grandfathers' treacherous boat journeys to Malaysia from mainland China in the 1920s, Aw weaves together...
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