Five-star billionaire : a novel
Aw, Tash
Five-star billionaire : a novel / Tash Aw. - 1st ed. - New York : Spiegel & Grau , [2013] - xiii, 379 p. ; 24 cm.
Think of Aw's third novel as an ingenious game called "How To Be a Billionaire." A how-to guide is interspersed with 30 rules that also serve as chapters, e.g., "Move to Where the Money Is," "Always Rebound After Each Failure," "Strive To Understand the Big Picture." The playing board is Shanghai, that 21st-century city of limitless possibility; the power broker is the eponymous Five Star Billionaire. A quartet of players-all Malaysian immigrants-are revealed one by one: country girl Phoebe, real estate heir Justin, pop superstar Gary, and businesswoman Yinghui, who is about to multiply her success. Aw moves fluidly between past and present, creating a multilayered narrative about chasing, catching, and sometimes losing elusive opportunities.
9780812994346
2012035692
Malayasians----China----Fiction
Young adults----Fiction
China----Civilization----21st century----Fiction
Shanghai (China)----Fiction
PR6101.W2 / F58 2013
FIC AW
Five-star billionaire : a novel / Tash Aw. - 1st ed. - New York : Spiegel & Grau , [2013] - xiii, 379 p. ; 24 cm.
Think of Aw's third novel as an ingenious game called "How To Be a Billionaire." A how-to guide is interspersed with 30 rules that also serve as chapters, e.g., "Move to Where the Money Is," "Always Rebound After Each Failure," "Strive To Understand the Big Picture." The playing board is Shanghai, that 21st-century city of limitless possibility; the power broker is the eponymous Five Star Billionaire. A quartet of players-all Malaysian immigrants-are revealed one by one: country girl Phoebe, real estate heir Justin, pop superstar Gary, and businesswoman Yinghui, who is about to multiply her success. Aw moves fluidly between past and present, creating a multilayered narrative about chasing, catching, and sometimes losing elusive opportunities.
9780812994346
2012035692
Malayasians----China----Fiction
Young adults----Fiction
China----Civilization----21st century----Fiction
Shanghai (China)----Fiction
PR6101.W2 / F58 2013
FIC AW
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