{"product_id":"25664-map-of-the-invisible-world","title":"Map of the Invisible World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Tash AW\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: HarperCollins\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2009\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 343\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 9788172238254\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of the internationally acclaimed, Costa Award-winning The Harmony Silk Factory comes an enthralling new novel that evokes an exotic yet turbulent and often frightening world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e16-year-old Adam is an orphan three times over. He and his older brother, Johan, were abandoned by their mother as children; he watched as Johan was adopted and taken away by a wealthy couple; and he had to hide when Karl, the Dutch man who raised him, was arrested by soldiers during Sukarno's drive to purge 1960s Indonesia of its colonial past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAdam sets out on a quest to find Karl, but all he has to guide him are some old photos and letters, which send him to the colorful, dangerous capital, Jakarta. Johan, meanwhile, is living a seemingly carefree, privileged life in Malaysia, but is careening out of control, unable to forget the long-ago betrayal of his helpless, trusting brother.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMap of the Invisible World is a masterful novel, and confirms Tash Aw as one of the most exciting young writers at work today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePRAISE FOR THE HARMONY SILK FACTORY:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘What a storyteller Tash Aw is. Unputdownable.’\u003cbr\u003e-DORIS LESSING\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Bewitchingly written and gracefully assured…Aw’s prose is lucid, uncluttered, and beautiful.’\u003cbr\u003e-THE TIMES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Aw writes with what seems like effortless fluidity… Dazzling’.\u003cbr\u003e- GUARDIAN\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Tash AW \/ HarperCollins \/ Hardcover","offer_id":40776568471721,"sku":"25664","price":35.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/1048\/4393\/products\/25664_0763bb97-db12-492a-8b5a-6ff1fa5df320.jpg?v=1625570696","url":"https:\/\/indiaclub.com\/de\/products\/25664-map-of-the-invisible-world","provider":"The India Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}