Twice Booker longlisted, the Malaysian author is shining a light on immigration stories rarely told in fiction
“It is the most personal novel I’ve ever written,” says Tash Aw of his fourth novel We, the Survivors. “It is very close to my heart.” For this reason, it was also the most difficult to write. It is the story of Ah Hock, born in a poor fishing village in Malaysia, whose dreams of self-improvement are destroyed in an act of senseless violence – Camus’s L’Étranger shadows the novel.
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