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Tash Aw © Stacey Liu
Tash Aw © Stacey Liu

Postponed: Tash Aw

Stranger on the Pier. Portrait of a Family

Literaturhaus Basel

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.

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