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Five Star Billionaire

by Tash Aw
Five Star Billionaire - Thryft
Five Star Billionaire
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Interlinked migrants navigating Shanghai's opulent maze

"Five Star Billionaire" speaks to the dreamer and the realist in all of us. Tash Aw masterfully intertwines the tales of individuals striving for success, offering a compelling glimpse into the high stakes and rapid pace of life in modern China. If the complexities of ambition and identity in the face of unrestrained capitalism intrigue you, this book will resonate with your inner seeker.

  • Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2013)
  • Green Carnation Prize Nominee for Longlist (2013)
  • POPULAR-The Star Readers’ Choice Awards Nominee for Fiction (2014)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Five Star Billionaire

by Tash Aw
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ISBN: 9780007494163
Authors: Tash Aw
Publisher: 4th Estate / HarperCollins UK
Date of Publication: 2013-02-28
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Contemporary
Related Topics: Asian Literature, Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.47
(rated by 4703 readers)

Description

An entertaining, expansive, and eye-opening novel that captures the vibrance of China today, by a writer whose previous work has been called “mesmerizing,” “haunting,” “breathtaking,” “mercilessly gripping,” “seductive,” and “luminous.” Phoebe is a factory girl who has come to Shanghai with the promise of a job - but when she arrives she discovers that the job doesn't exist. Gary is a country boy turned pop star who is spinning out of control. Justin is in Shanghai to expand his family's real-estate empire, only to find that he might not be up to the task. He has long harboured a crush on Yinghui, who has reinvented herself from a poetry-loving, left-wing activist to a successful Shanghai businesswoman. She is about to make a deal with the shadowy figure of Walter Chao, the five-star billionaire of the novel, who - with his secrets and his schemes - has a hand in the lives of each of the characters. All bring their dreams and hopes to Shanghai, the shining symbol of the New China, which, like the novel's characters, is constantly in flux and which plays its own fateful role in the lives of its inhabitants. Five Star Billionaire, the dazzling kaleidoscopic new novel by the award-winning writer Tash Aw, offers rare insight into China today, with its constant transformations and its promise of possibility.
 

Interlinked migrants navigating Shanghai's opulent maze

"Five Star Billionaire" speaks to the dreamer and the realist in all of us. Tash Aw masterfully intertwines the tales of individuals striving for success, offering a compelling glimpse into the high stakes and rapid pace of life in modern China. If the complexities of ambition and identity in the face of unrestrained capitalism intrigue you, this book will resonate with your inner seeker.

  • Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2013)
  • Green Carnation Prize Nominee for Longlist (2013)
  • POPULAR-The Star Readers’ Choice Awards Nominee for Fiction (2014)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.