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Malaysian author Tash Aw is behind The South, the first of four novels that will follow a Malaysian family through the decades, beginning in 1997 during the Asian Financial Crisis.
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LONDON – Tash Aw wants to reinvent the historical epic.
It had always been the Malaysian author’s ambition to write a “big family epic” in the vein of Rohinton Mistry and Vikram Seth, India-born writers he had admired growing up. Yet, the idea of writing an 800-page novel did not appeal to him.
