Stylistically rooted in fairy tale and mythology, imperceptible landscapes are explored in these opulent stories from a beloved fantasy icon. There are princesses dancing with dead suitors, a knight in love with an official of exotic lineage, and fortunes fool stealing into the present instead of th
Map of the Invisible World
โ Scribed by Tash Aw
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group;Spiegel & Grau
- Year
- 2010,2011
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 215 KB
- Edition
- 2011 Spiegel & Grau trade paperback edition
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
From the author of the internationally acclaimed The Harmony Silk Factory comes an enthralling novel that evokes an exotic yet turbulent place and time--1960s Indonesia during President Sukarno's drive to purge the country of its colonial past. A page-turning story, Map of the Invisible World follows the journeys of two brothers and an American woman who are indelibly marked by the past--and swept up in the tides of history.
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