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Ah Hock is an ordinary man of simple means. Born and raised in a Malaysian fishing village, he favors stability above all, a preference at odds with his rapidly modernizing surroundings. So what brings him to kill a man?

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Aw, Tash (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
Edition:	First American edition.
Subjects:	Social classes > Southeast Asia > Fiction. Racism > Southeast Asia > Fiction. Ex-convicts > Southeast Asia > Fiction. Malaysia > Social conditions > Fiction. Political fiction. Thrillers (Fiction)
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Summary:	Ah Hock is an ordinary man of simple means. Born and raised in a Malaysian fishing village, he favors stability above all, a preference at odds with his rapidly modernizing surroundings. So what brings him to kill a man?
Physical Description:	326 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:	9780374287245 0374287244
Author Notes:	Tash Aw was born in Taipei and brought up in Malaysia. He is the author of The Harmony Silk Factory , which was the winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Novel and was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize; Map of the Invisible World ; and Five Star Billionaire , also longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2013. He is also the author of a memoir of an immigrant family, The Face: Strangers on a Pier , a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize.