'Tash Aw's new novel succeeds in achieving many feats: it is at once the great novel on today's racism that we have been waiting for; a masterly fresco of South-East Asia, a region of the world that remains under-represented in literature; and a magnificent story of the social ascent of a man born into poverty, his dreams of becoming someone else, his battles, his shattered hopes, and, finally his downfall - a sort of The Red and the Black of our times, radical and contemporary. We, The Survivors is one of the most beautiful and powerful books I've read in years' Ãpermil;douard Louis, author of Who Killed My Father'The ironically-titled We, the Survivors is the story of billions of human beings today--but not one reader. This is the tale of poor people--refugees, day laborers--whose lives are ruled by cruel circumstance and extreme poverty, whose struggles end in defeat, who are not meant to survive. What would be abstract in a report is here given burning, lacerated flesh. In the twenty-first century it is our Everyman, alas' Edmund White, author of The Unpunished Vice'Utterly absorbing to the last word . with deep empathy combined with a sharp, unflinching gaze. As with [Aw's] other books, we end up loving the characters we might otherwise hate, and arguing with those we might have a natural affinity for. He manages to turn our assumptions inside out, all while creating a world that would, without him, remain out of reach and invisible' Tahmima Anam, author of A Golden Age'What a storyteller Tash Aw is' Doris Lessing 'Aw is a writer of great power and delicacy, as able to conjure stampeding crowds as the glow of fireflies' Daily Mail [Aw] is unmatched at evoking the smells and sounds of the land and cityscapes, the figures of speech and shifting cultural mores of that finger-like peninsula that pokes into the South China Sea' Independent on Sunday 'Aw is a master storyteller' Aminatta Forna, Guardian.