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TASH AW
Map of the Invisible World
Fourth Estate
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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.
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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
For my sisters LL and SL
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
Dedication