Malaysian writer Tash Aw burst onto the international literary scene with his highly acclaimed and award-winning debut, The Harmony Silk Factory. He talks to Kevin Rabalais about Map of the Invisible World, set during the tumultuous ‘Year of Living Dangerously’ in post-colonial Indonesia.
TASH AW (INTERNATIONAL) TASH AW is Malaysian by birth and now lives in London. His first novel, The Harmony Silk Factory, won the Whitbread Best First Novel Award and the Commonwealth Best First Novel Award. His second novel, Map of the Invisible World, is set in post-Independence Malaysia and Indonesia. Tash is a frequent contributor to the BBC on South-East Asian literature, film and culture.
His participation is supported by HarperCollins Publishers. tash-aw.com
Kevin Rabalais grew up in New Orleans and now lives in Melbourne. He is the author of The Landscape of Desire, and co-author of Novel Voices, conversations with award-winning American writers. His work has appeared in The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Weekend Australian, The Wellington Dominion-Post, The New Orleans Times-Picayune, and in numerous literary journals, including Tin House, Brick and The Kenyon Review.
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