WorldCat Linked Data Explorer

Turtle N-Triple JSON-LD RDF/XML HTML Contact Us Home

http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/974218

Harmony silk factory

Set in Malaysia in the 1930s and 40s, with the rumbling of the Second World War in the background and the Japanese about to invade, this is the story of four people. A journey the four of them take into the jungle has a devastating effect on all of them, and exposes the cultural tensions of the era.

Open All Close All

type

about

http://schema.org/about

alternateName

http://schema.org/alternateName

  • "Harmony silk factory"@it
  • "Harmony Silk Factory"

author

contributor

creator

description

http://schema.org/description

  • "Set in Malaysia in the 1930s and 40s, with the rumbling of the Second World War in the background and the Japanese about to invade, this is the story of four people. A journey the four of them take into the jungle has a devastating effect on all of them, and exposes the cultural tensions of the era."@en
  • "This novel juxtaposes three accounts of the life of an enigmatic man at a pivotal and haunting moment in Malaysian history. The author slices his first novel into three segments, wherein three characters dissect the nature of Johnny Lim, a controversial figure in 1940s Malaysia. Depending on the teller, Johnny was a Communist leader, an informer for the Japanese, a dangerous black-market trader, a working-class Chinese man too in awe of his aristocratic wife to have sex with her, or a loyal friend. Long after Johnny's death, we hear these conflicting accounts of his life."@en
  • "Roman über die Geschichte Malaysias kurz vor dem Einmarsch der japanischen Armee im Jahr 1940, erzählt anhand von vier Personen, die auf unterschiedliche Weise miteinander verstrickt sind."
  • "Une grande histoire d'amour et d'amitié mise à l'épreuve par les feux du colonialisme et la Seconde Guerre mondiale. 1940, les Britanniques s'accrochent comme ils peuvent à l'Asie du Sud-Est tandis que les Japonais envahissent la Mandchourie. Johnny Lim et sa jeune épouse partent en lune de miel aux Seven Maidens, un archipel envoûtant. Premier roman."
  • "Joseph Conrad, W. Somerset Maugham, and Anthony Burgess have shaped our perceptions of Malaysia. In Tash Aw, we now have an authentic Malaysian voice that remaps this literary landscape. The Harmony Silk Factory traces the story of textile merchant Johnny Lim, a Chinese peasant living in British Malaya in the first half of the twentieth century. Johnny's factory is the most impressive structure in the region, and to the inhabitants of the Kinta Valley Johnny is a hero'a Communist who fought the Japanese when they invaded, ready to sacrifice his life for the welfare of his people. But to his son, Jasper, Johnny is a crook and a collaborator who betrayed the very people he pretended to serve, and the Harmony Silk Factory is merely a front for his father's illegal businesses. This debut novel from Tash Aw gives us an exquisitely written look into another culture at a moment of crisis. The Harmony Silk Factory won the 2005 Whitbread First Novel Award and also made it to the 2005 Man Booker longlist."@en
  • "Running an impressive Chinese silk factory in the Malaysian region throughout the first half of the twentieth century, Johnny Lim finds his life complicated by his son's belief that he uses the factory as a front for illegal businesses."

genre

http://schema.org/genre

  • "Miscellaneous fiction"
  • "Roman psychologique"
  • "Advance copies (Publishing)"@en
  • "History"
  • "History"@da
  • "History"@en
  • "Fiction in English"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Uncorrected proofs (Printing)"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"@da
  • "General fiction"@en
  • "Roman historique"
  • "Anglicky psané romány"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Historical fiction"@en

name

http://schema.org/name

  • "Si zhi mi"
  • "La Fábrica de sedas"
  • "丝之谜"
  • "Silkkimies"@fi
  • "La vera storia di Johnny Lim"@it
  • "La vera storia di Johnny Lim"
  • "Silkefabrikken Harmony : roman"
  • "Silkefabrikken Harmony : roman"@da
  • "Die Seidenmanufaktur "Zur schönen Harmonie" Roman"
  • "De zijdehandelaar"
  • "Sidenfabriken"@sv
  • "Faktoria jedwabiu"
  • "Faktoria jedwabiu"@pl
  • "He xie si zhuang"
  • "Harmony silk factory"@en
  • "La fábrica de sedas"
  • "La fábrica de sedas"@es
  • "Metaxourgeio hē Harmonia"
  • "Le tristement célèbre Johnny Lim"
  • "Cesta za hedvábím"
  • "Die Seidenmanufaktur "Zur schönen Harmonie" : Roman"
  • "和諧絲莊"
  • "The harmony silk factory"
  • "The harmony silk factory"@da
  • "The harmony silk factory"@en
  • "The Harmony Silk Factory"
  • "The Harmony Silk Factory"@en
  • "和谐丝庄"
  • "Si zhi mi = The Harmony Silk Factory"
  • "Dodir svile"

workExample

http://schema.org/workExample