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Map of the Invisible World
Tash Aw
Spiegel & Grau
January 2010
On Sale: January 5, 2010
336 pages
ISBN: 0385527969
EAN: 9780385527965
Hardcover
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From the author of the internationally acclaimed, award-
winning The Harmony Silk Factory comes an enthralling new
novel that evokes an exotic yet turbulent and often
frightening time and place. Map of the Invisible World is
the masterly, psychologically rich tale of three lives
indelibly marked by the past—their own and Indonesia's. Sixteen-year-old Adam is an orphan three times over. He
and his brother, Johan, were abandoned by their mother as
children; then Adam watched as Johan was adopted and taken
away by a wealthy couple; and now Adam is hiding because
Karl, the man who raised him—and who is Dutch but long ago
turned his back on the country of his ancestors—has been
arrested by soldiers during Sukarno's drive to purge 1960s
Indonesia of its colonial past. All Adam has to guide him in his quest to find Karl are
some old photos and letters, which send him to the
colorful, dangerous capital, Jakarta, and to Margaret, an
American whose own past is bound up with Karl's. Soon both
have embarked on journeys of discovery that seem destined
to turn tragic. Woven hauntingly into this page-turning story is the
voice of Johan, who is living a seemingly carefree,
privileged life in Malaysia, but one that is careening out
of control as he struggles to forget his long-ago betrayal
of his helpless, trusting brother. Map of the Invisible World confirms Tash Aw as one of
the most exciting young voices on the international
literary scene.
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