Tash Aw is the author of three novels, including Five Star Billionaire, and a family memoir, The Face: Strangers on a Pier.
A chance encounter on Christmas Eve ends with Edouard Louis, a student at the École Normale Supérieure, taking a stranger back to his apartment. Louis has struggled with the decision to invite the man to share his home and his body, and now, poised on the brink of terrible physical and emotional violence that will have long-standing consequences for both of them, the young...
Edouard Louis discusses his autobiographical novel En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule with Tash Aw, in which he draws an unsparing portrait of the violence, alcoholism, racism and homophobia of the milieu...
What kind of politics of representation is in play if you’re writing novels about East Asian countries in English? Is it more complicated or less if you’re Malaysian and a Cambridge...
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