PositiveThe Asian Review of Books...a tantalizing story of broken family life that crisscrosses both the megacity of Kuala Lumpur and the tropical provinces ... The novel is rich in despair. The author unforgivingly explores the peculiar benefits and vulnerabilities of being Chinese in the Malay-dominated Southeast Asian nation ... As in his previous novels, Tash Aw is able to take a complicated subject and animate it in an engrossing and visceral work of fiction. Intriguing and worldly, We, The Survivors is a story about what transpires when the everyday poor are threatened by the poorest of the poor.
