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Article: Eye on the unseen
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- New Straits Times
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- June 14, 2009
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Lucien De Guise
New Straits Times
06-14-2009
Eye on the unseen
Byline: Lucien De Guise
Edition: New Sunday Times
Section: Sunday People
WANDERING through the bestsellers section of my local bookshop, I chanced upon a rarity at that end of the store: a Malaysian book. Tash Aw has repeated the success of The Harmony Silk Factory with his latest work, Map Of The Invisible World.
Lovely cover, and a great title too. You don't often encounter titles of such outstanding originality, or so I thought, until I discovered an invitation to Mapping Invisible Cities. No possibility of plagiarism as the invisible cities exhibition started its travels before the invisible world was published.
The venue was ...