A radiant, sensual coming-of-age novel about first love, family and inheritance — from celebrated Malaysian author Tash Aw, and the first in a planned quartet.
When his grandfather dies, a teenage boy named Jay travels south with his family to the property he left them: a once-flourishing farm now fallen into disrepair, its trees diseased and its fields parched by months of drought. Still, Jay's father sends him out to work whatever land remains — and there, over a string of hot, heavy days, Jay finds himself drawn to Chuan, the son of the farm's manager, different from him in every way but one.
As the charge between the two boys intensifies, the rest of the family confront their own regrets and quietly begin to drift apart — powerless, like the land around them, against the global forces threatening to render their lives obsolete. Sweeping yet intimate, The South is a masterful portrait of private longing and public change.
Proudly Malaysian and quietly extraordinary.
Paperback · Literary fiction · In stock at Book Tanks, shipped across Malaysia.
Book details
Author: Tash Aw
ISBN: 9780008637644
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Genre: Literary fiction, Malaysian
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