Five Star Billionaire

Product Number: D2919
Released: 01 Apr, 2014
Business Term: Purchase
ISBN: #9780007553778
Narrator(s): Nick Taylor
Publisher: W F Howes
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Description

Justin is from a family of successful property developers. Phoebe has come to China buoyed with hope, but the job she has come for seems never to have existed. Gary is a successful pop artist, but his fans and marketing machine disappear after a bar-room brawl. Yinghui has businesses that are going well but must make decisions about her life. And then there is Walter, the shadowy billionaire, ruthless and manipulative, ultimately alone in the world. In Five Star Billionaire Tash Aw charts the overlapping lives of migrant Malaysian workers, forging lives for themselves in sprawling Shanghai.

Author(s): Tash Aw
Awards:Longlisted for the Man Booker 2013; Longlisted for the Green Carnation Prize 2013
Original Publish Date: 01 Apr, 2014

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CD
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Author(s): Tash Aw
Narrator(s): Nick Taylor
Product Number DCD56
Released: 01 Jan, 2014
Business Term: Purchase
Publisher: W F Howes
ISBN: #9780007553761
MP3 CD
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Author(s): Tash Aw
Narrator(s): Nick Taylor
Product Number MPCD301
Released: 01 Jan, 2014
Business Term: Purchase
Publisher: W F Howes
ISBN: #9780007569151

Professional reviews

"Justin is from a family of successful property developers. Phoebe has come to China buoyed with hope, but the job she has come for seems never to have existed. Gary is a successful pop artist, but his fans and marketing machine disappear after a bar-room brawl. Yinghui has businesses that are going well but must make decisions about her life. And then there is Walter, the shadowy billionaire, ruthless and manipulative, ultimately alone in the world. In Five Star Billionaire Tash Aw charts the overlapping lives of migrant Malaysian workers, forging lives for themselves in sprawling Shanghai."

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