The South
A Novel
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Narrateur(s):
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Windson Liong
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Tash Aw
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A luminous and intimate novel about the weight of inheritance, the bonds of loyalty, and the awakening of love, set against the backdrop of a changing Malaysia.
The South unfolds during a visit by the Lim family to their rural clan estate after a long absence. Jay, in his mid-teens, and his two older sisters are less than thrilled to leave their city for the remote house in the south, but their parents, Sui Ching and Jack, are adamant.
Jay finds he's expected to share a room with Chuan, the son of the estate's overseer, a bit older than Jay but seemingly much more mature and capable in the world. The two soon form an intense bond, but with their very different backgrounds, and even more disparate expectations for the future, the course of their relationship is always an unspoken question.
Meanwhile, change presses in, including the destruction of the farm's beloved orchards, and the sale of the estate is mooted. The relationships between Chuan's father and Jack and Sui Ching go deep, but pressures both internal and external threaten to sever old bonds and upend an entire way of life. The South, at once sweeping and intimate, is a masterful portrait of a family navigating a period of great transformation.
Ce que les critiques en disent
“Tash Aw’s The South is a mesmerizing tale of love, courage, and endurance. Like any significant novel, it’s also infused with humor, longing, and other aspects of humanity too subtle and pervasive to be named by me. And, like any significant novel, it’s both heartbreaking and joyful.”
—Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Hours and 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, award-winning author of Wednesday’s Child
“A sublime novel from one of the most important writers of our present.”
—Édouard Louis, author of Change and The End of Eddy
"Stellar. . . . Evokes a mood of pervasive decline, [but against] this melancholy backdrop, Aw masterfully juxtaposes the hopes and desires of the younger generation. . . . This masterwork of psychological realism brings to mind the classic novels of E.M. Forster."
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“The South . . . soaks us in bodily intimacy from the outset…. Aw is brilliant at compressing sociological insight into intimate scenes. . . . Aw has moved beyond his previous novels to discover a different kind of writing here, emerging as a Proustian chronicler of momentary bodily and mental experience writing on a compressed, exquisite scale. Perhaps he will follow Proust in using his newly revealed capacity for blending the timeless and the historical to reinvent what an epic can be.”
—The Guardian