Tash Aw

Map of the Invisible World


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      TASH AW

       Map of the Invisible World

       Copyright

      Fourth Estate

      An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF www.4thestate.co.uk

      First published in Great Britain by Fourth Estate 2009

      Copyright © Tash Aw 2009

      Cover credit © Jack Smyth; Figure photo © Plainpicture / Willing-Holtz; Texture © Unsplash

      Tash Aw asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Source ISBN: 9780007349982

      Ebook Edition © JULY 2009 ISBN: 9780007337576

      Version: 2019-02-20

       Dedication

       For my sisters LL and SL

       Epigraph

      Did I not once upon a time have a lovable childhood, heroic and fabulous, to be written on leaves of gold, an excess of good fortune?

      RIMBAUD, Matin

      His voice lasted just a few moments. A fleeting tremor, never to be repeated.

      PRAMOEDYA ANANTA TOER, ‘Yang Sudah Hilang’

      ‘My dreams are like other people’s waking hours…My memory, sir, is like a garbage heap.’

      BORGES, ‘Funes, His Memory’

       Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

      Dedication

       Epigraph

       Chapter 1

       Chapter 2

       Chapter 3

       Chapter 4

       Chapter 5

       Chapter 6

       Chapter 7

       Chapter 8

       Chapter 9

       Chapter 10

       Chapter 11

       Chapter 12

       Chapter 13

       Chapter 14

       Chapter 15

       Chapter 16

       Chapter 17

       Chapter 18

       Chapter 19

       Chapter 20

       Chapter 21

       Chapter 22

       Chapter 23

       Chapter 24

       Chapter 25

       Chapter 26

       Chapter 27

       Chapter 28

       Chapter 29

       Chapter 30

       Chapter 31

       Chapter 32