{"id":5342,"date":"2005-05-05T14:24:18","date_gmt":"2005-05-05T18:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=5342"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:55:36","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:55:36","slug":"the-harmony-silk-factory-by-tash-aw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-harmony-silk-factory-by-tash-aw\/","title":{"rendered":"The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw [in AsianWeek]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2005\/05\/Harmony-Silk-Factory.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-30919\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2005\/05\/Harmony-Silk-Factory.jpg\" alt=\"Harmony Silk Factory\" width=\"461\" height=\"678\" \/><\/a>First reaction: WOW! Second reaction: Read it! The story revolves around the Harmony Silk Factory, a\u00a0textiles shop in rural Malaysia run by Johnny Lim, part crook, part untouchable legend.<\/p>\n<p>Three narrators \u2013\u00a0his resentful son, his beautiful wife, his one and only friend \u2013\u00a0recount their very different relationships with the unknowable Johnny. In <em>Rashomon<\/em>-style, Aw\u2019s three narrators prove unreliable, their stories overlapping only over\u00a0minute details. Ultimately, the reader must decide where the truth might lie \u2013\u00a0and whether truth is ever discernible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/asianweek-2005-05-05-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;New and Notable Books, <em>AsianWeek<\/em>, May 5, 2005<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2005<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4463\" title=\"Harmony Silk Factory\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/07\/harmony-silk-factory.jpg\" alt=\"Harmony Silk Factory\" width=\"127\" height=\"193\" \/>First reaction: WOW! Second reaction: Read it! The story revolves around the Harmony Silk Factory, a textiles shop in rural Malaysia run by Johnny Lim, part crook, part untouchable legend. <\/p>\n<p>Three narrators \u2013 his resentful son, his beautiful wife, his one and only friend \u2013 recount their very different relationships with the unknowable Johnny. In <em>Rashomon<\/em>-style, Aw\u2019s three narrators prove unreliable, their stories overlapping only over minute details. Ultimately, the reader must decide where the truth might lie \u2013 and whether truth is ever discernible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/08\/asianweek-2005-05-05-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;New and Notable Books, <em>AsianWeek<\/em>, May 5, 2005<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2005<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,330,6,436,6535,136],"tags":[3598,84,6608,10,189,11,3778,13,39,437],"class_list":["post-5342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-british-asian","category-fiction","category-malaysian","category-repost","category-southeast-asian","tag-asianweek","tag-betrayal","tag-bookdragon","tag-family","tag-father-son-relationship","tag-friendship","tag-harmony-silk-factory","tag-love","tag-parent-child-relationship","tag-tash-aw"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw [in AsianWeek] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-harmony-silk-factory-by-tash-aw\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw [in AsianWeek] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"First reaction: WOW! 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