The South

Advance Praise ""The stellar latest from Aw . . . Aw masterfully juxtaposes the hopes and desires of the younger generation, crystallized in the tender, slow-burning relationship . . . This masterwork of psychological realism brings to mind the classic novels of E.M. Forster."" --Publishers Weekly (starred review) ""Like Chekhov's Russia, Aw's Malaysia is both a universally resonant vision of a timeless and placeless lost world, and a historically precise portrait of a country undergoing rapid modernisation.... [Aw] emerg[es] as a Proustian chronicler of momentary bodily and mental experience writing on a compressed, exquisite scale . . . blending the timeless and the historical to reinvent what an epic can be."" --Lara Feigel, The Guardian (UK) ""[A] spellbinding story about a group of people navigating a period of upheaval . . . that reveals Aw's greatest strength as a novelist -- an ability to subtly shift and unsettle your perceptions."" --Johanna Thomas-Corr, The Times (UK) ""A universal and mesmerising tale of family dynamics, first experiences of longing, and the subtle social and cultural changes that each generation has to grapple with."" --The New Statesman ""A sublime novel from one of the most important writers of our present."" --Édouard Louis, author of Change ""Tash Aw's The South is a mesmerizing tale of love, courage, and endurance, infused with humor, longing, and other aspects of humanity too subtle to be named. And, like any significant novel, it's both heartbreaking and joyful."" --Michael Cunningham, author of Day ""Tash Aw presents a world as timeless as the worlds brought to us by Turgenev and V. S. Naipaul, and yet catches the subtle and unstoppable changes each generation faces. Reflecting the human entanglements that come with home, land, and homeland, The South is a shimmeringly intelligent and elegiacally intimate novel."" --Yiyun Li, author of Wednesday's Child