The South

Name: The South
Author: Tash Aw

Tash Aw

Published
Literary
4th Estate
2025

In the 1990s, teenage Jay leaves Kuala Lumpur with his family for an inherited, deteriorating farm in rural Johor. Drought and economic change erode the land as he grows close to the farm manager’s son, Chuan, and the family confronts regrets and separation.

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