
Postponed: Tash Aw
Stranger on the Pier. Portrait of a Family
The event has been postponed. As soon as the new date is set, you will find it here on the website.
The discussion will be held in English.
Tash Aw tells a deeply personal story of modern Asia as seen through the eyes of his Malaysian-Chinese family. To escape poverty, his grandfathers fled from China to Malaysia. But when Aw wanted to know more about his ancestors, he encountered a wall of silence: Chinese culture looks to the future; it does not talk about the past. Aw interweaves his family's stories with his own experiences, revealing a dizzying diversity of languages, dialects and identities. It is a memoir that resists the Western gaze and explores issues such as migration and transgenerational trauma from a non-European perspective.
Contributors and biographies
Author: Tash Aw
Moderation: Ralph Tharayil
German Reading: Mario Fuchs