PAPERBACK OF THE WEEK
The Harmony Silk Factory
Tash Aw
(HarperPerennial, 2006)
BibliographyAW Tash [1972-] Novelist. Born Aw Ta-Shii in Taipei, Taiwan. NOVEL The Harmony Silk Factory (2005: winner of the 2005 Whitbread First Novel Award; winner of the 2005 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book, Southeast Asia and South Pacific; longlisted for the 2005 Booker Prize for Fiction and the 2005 Guardian First Book Award)
posted by Eric Forbes at 9:23 AM
4 Comments:
Yay, a new cover. Don't like the first one.
What a casuality, I bought it last week.
bit over-romanticised ... the exotic east ... much preferred the other
Sharon - really nice to her from you. The idea of the new cover is to capture the exotic east in all its beauty and mystery. And a maiden with an orchid in her hair, I guess, best exemplifies that concept. Though a tad over-romanticised, it is a very effective marketing ploy in the publishing industry. Yes, I too prefer the old cover. Happy reading!
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