Award-winning Malaysian author Tash Aw kicks off a sprawling family saga with coming-of-age novel "The South". He tells us about returning to the Malaysia of the 1990s and reflects on a society within ...

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WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) - A&W will open its Wausau location on Dec. 15. The new restuarant is located at the site of the former 199 Ride auto sales building, which is 2719 Stewart Avenue. The building had ...

It has been almost five years since Jeanette Aw opened her patisserie, Once Upon A Time, on Hamilton Road. But all good things must come to an end, and she will be moving out of the shophouse by ...

When words falter and sorrow becomes too heavy to bear, Ilocanos turn to dung-aw, a chant for the dead, a lament woven with memory, love, and longing. The chant, performed during wakes and funerals, ...

WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) - The city of Wausau has received a permit for an A&W to operate in the former 199 Ride auto sales building. The property is located at 2719 Stewart Avenue. The building is ...

Tash Aw’s fifth novel “The South” has been longlisted for the Booker Prize, making the acclaimed Malaysian author one of 13 semifinalists for the prestigious literary award. Aw, who has previously won ...

To promote his new book 'The South', Tash Aw appeared at Lit Books, CzipLee Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur, in March. Photo: The Star/Raja Faisal Hishan Malaysian author Tash Aw’s new book The South is among ...

Malaysian writer Tash Aw is no new name to the literary circles in his country, where he grew up before moving to London. Longlisted twice for the Booker Prize (then the Man Booker Prize), first for ...

A reader coming fresh to Tash Aw’s new novel, “The South” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), even one familiar with his four previous, award-winning novels, would profit from a word of explanation. It’s the ...

It’s 1997, the Asian financial crisis is tanking stock markets and “I’ll Be Missing You” by Puff Daddy and Faith Evans is playing in the market of a southern Malaysian town where one teenage boy, ...

If all the world’s a stage, it must include the 20 hectares of barren, dusty and drought-stricken Malaysian farmland at the center of Tash Aw’s sensitively drawn novel “The South.” This failing ...