Family Tensions

Tash Aw’s latest work The South was recently reviewed by Jon Day for the Financial Times.

“Identity and self-invention have loomed large in most of Aw’s previous novels. In The South identities are shown to be both contested and contestable. Jack, a teacher, is ostracised by his colleagues for his Chinese ethnicity; Yin has a secret Malay boyfriend whom, even though he is the ‘modern kind, quite open-minded of course,’ she still worries what her parents will think of. Then there is Jay’s sexual identity, a secret, delicate thing that can’t be confronted directly.”

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