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A Bend in the River
A Bend in the River
by V S Naipaul
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In the "brilliant novel" (The New York Times) V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man—an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river... (read more)

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The Makioka Sisters
The Makioka Sisters
by Junichiro Tanizaki
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In Osaka in the years immediately before World War II, four aristocratic women try to preserve a way of life that is vanishing. As told by Junichiro Tanizaki, the story of the Makioka sisters forms what is arguably the greatest Japanese novel of the... (read more)

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The Geometry of God
The Geometry of God
by Uzma Aslam Khan
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"Uzma Aslam Khan chronicles the struggle of one family in Pakistan during and after President-General Zia's administration as it battles on the side of evolution against creationism and fundamentalism. Accompanying her paleontologist grandfather on a... (read more)

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Goodbye, Xu Hu!
Goodbye, Xu Hu!
by Zhao Changtian
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Two novellas by the president of the Shanghai Writing Association address the question of how we must live with the past: in Goodbye, Xu Hu!, a chance meeting between two lovers, separated for twenty years, causes a man to wonder if the flame of their... (read more)

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Spinning Tropics (Vintage Contemporaries)
Spinning Tropics (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Aska Mochizuki
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Meet Hiro. She's tall, lanky and awkward—a twenty-something Japanese woman who has decamped to Vietnam from Tokyo to work as a language teacher.   Meet Dung. She's shy, beautiful, and tough—a young Vietnamese woman studying Japanese... (read more)

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Rivalry: A Geisha's Tale (Japanese Studies)
Rivalry: A Geisha's Tale (Japanese Studies)
by Nagai Kafu
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Originally published in 1918, Rivalry is regarded as the masterpiece of Nagai Kafu, a Japanese novelist known for his brilliant renderings of Tokyo in the early years of modern Japan. Stephen Snyder offers the first English translation of the complete... (read more)

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Forty Roses
Forty Roses
by Sun Yong
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A look at the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution, where families were destroyed, friendships disbanded and budding relationships never given a chance to bloom.... (read more)

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Ah, Blue Bird
Ah, Blue Bird
by Lu Xinger
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Lu Xing'er, one of China's most prolific writers, focuses her penetrating gaze on the life of the educated urban youth during and after the Cultural Revolution.... (read more)

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The Cloud Messenger
The Cloud Messenger
by Aamer Hussein
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"A thing of beauty. . . . You must read it."—Nadeem Aslam "A shower of pleasures."—Julia O'Faolain "Sophisticated, cosmopolitan and seductive, the novel engages mind and senses alike."—André Naffis-Sahely, The Times Literary... (read more)

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Beyond the Blossoming Fields
Beyond the Blossoming Fields
by Junichi Watanabe
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As a young girl from a wealthy family, Ginko Ogino seems set for a conventional life in the male-dominated society of 19th-century Japan. But when she contracts gonorrhea from her husband, she suffers the disgrace of divorce. Forced to bear the... (read more)

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Becoming Madame Mao
Becoming Madame Mao
by Anchee Min
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From the best-selling author of Red Azalea, this extraordinary novel tells the stirring, erotically charged story of Madame Mao Zedong, the woman almost universally known as the "white-boned demon," whom many hold directly responsible for the excesses of... (read more)

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Paradise on Earth (Contemporary Writers)
Paradise on Earth (Contemporary Writers)
by Zhu Lin
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Paradise on Earth is the deeply moving story of five travelers taking a creative writing expedition through some of China's most scenic landscapes. As these five lonely people make their way from the Fu River running through Sichuan's ancient mountains... (read more)

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Plainsong (Japanese Literature)
Plainsong (Japanese Literature)
by Kazushi Hosaka
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A nameless, ambitionless office worker finds his small apartment gradually invaded by three other people: all younger than himself, but seemingly no less adrift. The year is 1986, and the strange communal life of this foursome, extending over half a year,... (read more)

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Rickshaw =: The Novel Lo-T'o Hsiang Tzu
Rickshaw =: The Novel Lo-T'o Hsiang Tzu
by She Lao
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Rickshaw is a new translation of the twentieth-century Chinese classic Lo-t'o Hsiang Tzu, the first important study of a laborer in modern Chinese literature. While the rest of the Chinese literary world debated hotly, and for years, the value of... (read more)

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Revenge
Revenge
by Taslima Nasrin
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"Nasrin's voice is the voice of humanism everywhere."—Wole Soyinka "Taslima Nasrin has spoken out about the oppression of women under Islam, and what she's said needed saying."—Salman Rushdie Revenge is a delicious novel about getting even... (read more)

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Burial in the Clouds
Burial in the Clouds
by Hiroyuki Agawa
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Burial in the Clouds is the first English language translation of Hiroyuki Agawa's classic novel of World War II, Kumo No Bohyo. The story of a young Japanese college student who has been inducted into the Imperial Navy, Burial in the Clouds tells the... (read more)

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Beautiful Days: Two Novellas (Contemporary Writers)
Beautiful Days: Two Novellas (Contemporary Writers)
by Teng Xiaolan
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Discover the beauty of everyday life in this two-story collection from China. The first, A Riot of Brilliant Purple and Tender Crimson, examines the disparate love lives of a father and his daughter. Echoing the lyrics in the Kun Opera The Peony Pavilion,... (read more)

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The Messenger's Letter
The Messenger's Letter
by Sun Ganlu
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Taking its inspiration from the surreal imagery of writers such as Franz Kafka, this novel explores the twin themes of trust and doubt with dark humor and conviction.... (read more)

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The Most Beautiful Face in the World: Two Novellas (Contemporary Writers)
The Most Beautiful Face in the World: Two Novellas (Contemporary Writers)
by Xue Shu
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The Most Beautiful Face in the World contains two stories from noted Chinese author Xue Shu. The title story is an intricate look at the life of Ah Xing, a man who sees the world with his hands. Blind since birth, Ah Xing has a fully independent and... (read more)

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The Shadow of a Blue Cat (Japanese Literature)
The Shadow of a Blue Cat (Japanese Literature)
by Naoyuki Ii
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Businessman Yuki Yajima is fifty-one years old. He and his wife, Asako, are the parents of two daughters: Ryo, seventeen, and Yuka, an infant of only two months. Asking himself why he's allowed himself to become a father again at his age, Yuki begins to... (read more)

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