Tash Aw

Dreaming of love and success in rapidly changing Shanghai, four individuals including a starry-eyed waitress, a wealthy developer's son, a pop artist and a poetry-loving activist confront unexpected realities in regional challenges, including a billionaire's complex business strategy. By the award-winning author of The Harmony Silk Factory.

A Novel

Five-star Billionaire

azliana aziz

such a letdown. i went in with good expectation what's with on the front cover stated that it was longlisted in man booker prize and then it centers around malaysian immigrant in Shanghai. i try to keep up hopes that it will pick up somewhere but NO. at first i could relate to two of the characters while pretty much indifferent to the others. but as i continue to read wow, i realised that i kind of want to punch all of them. like i get it you want to be succesful in bumbling city but why are you all so self centered? and the book come of as preachy and sometimes pretentious. you want to make it a grand scale, out of the world lives of four people but the underlining of it is i don't care at all.

Mario Menti 

I first came across Tash Aw when in Malaysia a couple of years ago, just as the excellent "We, The Survivors" was published (I have this thing that I like to read books local to where I'm travelling). 

"Five Star Billionaire" was written a few years earlier. I finally got around to reading it, and I loved this just as much - the intersecting stories of five Malaysian expats from very different backgrounds trying to make it in Shanghai.

Five-star Billionaire A Novel

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