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Tash Aw’s kaleidoscopic novel is about the overlapping lives of five ambitious newcomers to China’s most dynamic city. Five Star Billionaire charts the overlapping lives of migrant Malaysian workers, forging lives for themselves in sprawling Shanghai.Welcome to Shanghai. A restless metropolis, where old traditions collide with new ambitions. A place where anything can happen and anybody can become a ‘somebody’. Gold-digger, property magnate, pop star, entrepreneur, guru: five newcomers are lured by the promise of making fortunes and remaking identities. But then they find their lives converging in unpredictable ways..."Aw is a master storyteller and Five Star Billionaire can be read as The Way We Live Now for our times... [It is a story] of lives lost and found, of the transience of material success and the courage required to hope and to trust again, to forgive oneself and to believe in the possibility of love." - The Guardian (UK)Tash Aw was unsatisfied with how south-east Asia was portrayed in Western literature so he set out to show its complexities. Aw attended the University of East Anglia’s celebrated creative writing school and subsidised his nascent career by working as an

Who reads Five Star Billionaire : A Novel?

Author

Aw, Tash

Publisher

Random House Publishing Group

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812984811

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Contemporary Fiction

Rating

3.46 / 5 (2,626 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13