Five Star Billionaire

Five Star Billionaire is a captivating novel that explores life in modern-day Shanghai through five distinct Malaysian-Chinese voices. The city is a symbol of the New China, constantly evolving and ever-changing, and the characters in the novel bring their dreams and hopes to its restless landscape. Bursting with energy, contradictions, and possibility, Tash Aw's remarkable book is both poignant and comic, exotic and familiar. This novel offers rare insight into the buzzing world of Shanghai, creating a cast of fascinating characters who have come to the city to remake themselves, yet are haunted by their pasts in ways that they barely understand.