SYNOPSIS

This is the story of Johnny Lim, textile merchant, petty crook and inventor of the Amazing Today Machine, and his marriage to the beautiful Snow Soong.

In 1940, with the Japanese about to invade Malaysia, Johnny and Snow embark on their honeymoon to the mysterious Seven Maiden Islands, accompanied by a mercurial Japanese professor and Peter Wormwood, an Englishman adrift. Many years later, Wormwood looks back on this defining journey, while Snows son goes in search of the truth of his mother and the infamous Chinese man she married.

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AUTHOR

Tash Aw

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BOOK ID

TAW00001

TOTAL PAGE

362