The Harmony Silk Factory
Author: Tash Aw
“This is the story of Johnny Lim – textile merchant, petty crook, and inventor of the Amazing Toddy Machine – and his marriage to Snow Soong, the most beautiful woman in the Kinta Valley. In 1940, with the Japanese threatening to invade, Johnny and Snow embark upon their honeymoon, recounted in Snow’s captivating journal, to the mysterious Seven Maiden Islands, accompanied….Read More
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