The Face: Strangers on a Pier, Tash AwLA Times Book Prize Finalist: The Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical ProseThe Guardian's Best Books of 2016 From the award winning author of Five Star Billionaire and The Harmony Silk Factory comes a whirlwind personal history of modern Asia, as told through his Malaysian and Chinese heritage. In The Face: Strangers on a Pier, acclaimed author Tash Aw explores the panoramic cultural vitality of modern Asia through his own complicated

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