A spellbinding novel by a Malaysian heir to Chekhov. A book that reveals Aws greatest strength as a novelist an ability to subtly shift and unsettle your perceptions of characters and situations The Times
This may be Booker-longlisted Tash Aws best book yet. MesmerisingLondon Standard
'Aw presents a world as timeless as the worlds brought to us by Turgenev and V. S. Naipaul, and yet catches the subtle and unstoppable changes each generation faces. Reflecting the human entanglements that come with home, land, and homeland, The South is a shimmeringly intelligent and elegiacally intimate novel' Yiyun Li, author of Wednesday's Child
The South is a mesmerising tale of love, courage, and endurance. Like any significant novel, its also infused with humour, longing, and other aspects of humanity too subtle and pervasive to be named by me. Its both heartbreaking and joyful Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours
A sublime novel from one of the most important writers of our present' Édouard Louis, author of The End of Eddy
'Everything about this novel is heartstoppingly vivid: its physical and emotional and social landscapes are rendered in sumptuous, shocking detail, while its meditations on desire and family are ecstatic and devastating all at once. It's exquisite' Oisín McKenna, author of Evenings and Weekends
A novel of shimmering beauty, of exquisite tenderness and longing Andrew McMillan, author of Playtime
An exquisite, languorous novel about class and aspiration, family and growing upObserver
'The South blooms as an epic, unconstrained by chronology or fate. Fluent in the vocabulary of change, Tash Aw's fifth novel gifts us a radiant and generous vision of our relationship to home, love and ourselves. I wanted to live in it forever even knowing what I do now, about time' Jemimah Wei, author of The Original Daughter
