Beautiful, brutal tale moves from global to personal consequences

Tash Aw’s new novel We, The Survivors delivers an account of a murder, as revealed by Ah Hock, a villager of Chinese descent living in Malaysia

Tash Aw’s new novel is a tale about the chaos of modern living

FICTION: We, the Survivors, By Tash Aw, Fourth Estate, €17.95

Beautiful as it is brutal, Tash Aw’s new novel We, The Survivors delivers an account of a murder, as revealed by Ah Hock, a villager of Chinese descent living in Malaysia. The details of his life leading up to the point at which he finds himself in jail, for a crime that’s made clear at the novel’s end, are spilled out to eager ...