The South by Aw, Tash
The South by Aw, Tash

The South

Long-listed for the Booker Prize A radiant, intimate novel of the longing that blooms between two boys...
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Author: Tash Aw
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Language: English
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The South by Aw, Tash

The South

$43.18
The South by Aw, Tash

The South

$43.18
Author: Tash Aw
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Long-listed for the Booker Prize

A radiant, intimate novel of the longing that blooms between two boys over the course of one summer--about family, desire, and what we inherit.

When his grandfather dies, Jay travels south with his family to the property they've inherited, a once-flourishing farm that has fallen into disrepair. The trees are diseased, the fields parched from months of drought.

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 begin to confront their own secrets and regrets. Jack is a professor at a struggling local college whose failures might have begun when he married his student, Sui Ching. Sui Ching does her best to keep the family together, though she too wonders what her life could have been. And Fong, the manager, refuses to look at what is: at Chuan, at the land, at the global forces that threaten to render his whole life obsolete.

At once sweeping and compressed, Tash Aw's The South is a family novel of change and desire--a story of what happens when public and private lives collide, told with uncommon grace and beauty.

Author: Tash Aw
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 05/27/2025
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 8.54h x 5.84w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9780374616281


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 12/01/2024 pg. 2
Publishers Weekly 03/31/2025
Booklist 04/01/2025 pg. 36
Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2025

About the Author
Tash Aw is the author of four novels, including We, the Survivors, and a memoir of a Chinese-Malaysian family, The Face: Strangers on a Pier, both finalists for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His work has also won a Whitbread Award, a Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and an O. Henry Prize, and has twice been long-listed for the Man Booker Prize. His fiction has been translated into twenty-three languages.
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