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01967aam a2200385 a 4500 001 50C9044A780011EBB85B79874CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210226010012 007 tb 008 200207t20202019miu d 000 1 eng d 020 $a 1432875809 020 $a 9781432875800 040 $a KyBuM $c KyBuM $d SILO 043 $a a-my--- $a a-my--- 050 00 $a PR6101.W2 $b W4 2019 082 14 $a Fic $2 15 100 1 $a Aw, Tash. 245 10 $a We, the survivors / $c Tash Aw. 250 $a Large print ed. 260 $a [Farmington Hills, Mich.] : $b Thorndike Press/Gale, $c 2020, c2019. 300 $a 493 p. (large print) ; $c 23 cm. 490 0 $a Thorndike Press large print Bill's bookshelf 500 $a "A novel"--Cover. 520 $a "Ah Hock is an ordinary man of simple means. Born and raised in a Malaysian fishing village, he favors stability above all, a preference at odds with his rapidly modernizing surroundings. So what brings him to kill a man? This question leads a young, privileged journalist to Ah Hock's door. Ah Hock's motive remains unclear, even to himself. His vivid confession unfurls over extensive interviews with the journalist, herself a local whose life has taken a very different course. The process forces both the speaker and his listener to reckon with systems of power, race, and class in a place where success is promised to all yet delivered only to its lucky heirs"--From the publisher's web site. 521 2 $a 9-12 $b Medialog, Inc. 650 7 $a Racism $z Southeast Asia $v Fiction. $2 sears 650 7 $a Immigrants $v Fiction. $2 sears 650 7 $a Social classes $z Southeast Asia $v Fiction. $2 sears 651 7 $a Malaysia $x Social conditions $v Fiction. $2 sears 651 7 $a Southeast Asia $x Social conditions $v Fiction. $2 sears 650 7 $a Large print books. $2 sears 941 $a 1 945 $a lpt 952 $l ZKPC437 $d 20210226010356.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=50C9044A780011EBB85B79874CECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search