《丝之谜》(又名《和谐丝庄》)是旅英马来西亚华裔作家欧大旭的处女作,获惠特布列首部小说奖。它以上个世纪40年代的马来亚为背景,描述了殖民地势力和日本帝国主义夹攻下复杂的人性、多变的命运。作者采用三个不同的叙述角度去诠释主角的过去,小说以小见大,明显的华人标志,隐藏着的马来亚共产党身影,无不在唤醒个人、民族甚至国家的历史记忆。 Silk Mystery (aka Harmony Silk) is the debut work of the European-born Malaysian writer Daxu Wook and won the Whittaker Prize for Novels. In the context of Malaya in the 1940s, it depicts the complicated human nature and changing destiny of the colonial forces and Japanese imperialists. The author uses three different narrative angles to interpret the protagonist’s past. The novel takes the appearance of a small Chinese figure, a clear Chinese sign, and a hidden figure of the Malayan Communist Party, arousing the historical memory of individuals, nations and even the nation.