Cloud of unknowing, tower of silk : narratives of the noumenal in the harmony silk factory by Wee, Samuel Ting Han

“…Much has been made about the polyphonic narrative structure of Tash Aw’s debut novel, The Harmony Silk Factory. While critics such as Mukherjee have praised the “lucid, uncluttered, beautiful” quality of his prose (“The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw”, Mukherjee), the lacuna the three unreliable narrators create have left them more ambivalent, with Hickling lamenting the “obfuscations and contradictions…of the book’s maddening inconsistency” (“Tropes of Silk,” Hickling). …”
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