Starred Review. This exquisite and haunting second novel from Aw (*The Harmony Silk Factory*) follows a vibrant cast searching for a sense of home during the political upheaval of 1960s Indonesia. After 16-year-old Adam de Willigen's adoptive father, Karl, is arrested by Indonesian soldiers, strandi
Map of the Invisible World
β Scribed by Aw, Tash
- Book ID
- 110151691
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 289 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781588369833
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β¦ 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 Sukarnoβs 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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