Asia (General)
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The Tale of Genji
$8.00 Add to cartCompleted in the early 11th century, The Tale of Genji is considered the supreme masterpiece of Japanese prose literature, and one of the world’s earliest novels. A work of great length, it comprises … [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Murasaki, Lady
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 24 2000
- ISBN10: 0486414159
- Language: English
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My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women
$25.00 Read moreA landmark collection: the first anthology of short fiction by Afghan women that are “powerful, profound, and deeply moving” (Elif Shafak, author of The Island of Missing Trees, a Reese’s Book Club pi… [more below]
- Author: 18 Afghan Women
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1538726823
- Language: English
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Story-Wallah: Short Fiction from South Asian Writers
$23.95 Add to cartWriters of South Asian descent have been garnering more and more success, acclaim, and attention. Story-Wallah gathers the finest South Asian voices in fiction for the first time in a single volume. A
- Author: Selvadurai, Shyam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 438
- Publish Date: April 07 2005
- ISBN10: 0618576800
- Language: English
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Needle at the Bottom of the Sea: Bengali Tales from the Land of the Eighteen Tides
$24.95 Add to cart“Brave and vivid.”–New York Review of Books
These enchanting stories from early modern Bengal reveal how Hindu and Muslim traditions converged on timeless themes of human morality, social culture, an… [more below]- Series: World Literature in Translation
- Author: Stewart, Tony K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0520388933
- Language: English
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Birth Canal
$17.00 Read moreThis dazzling novella from a rising star of Indonesian literature explores generational legacies, lost loves, the damage that war does to men, and the damage that men do to women.
In today’s Jakarta,
- Author: Wuri, Dias Novita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1957363622
- Language: English
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Amanat: Women’s Writing from Kazakhstan
$22.00 Add to cartWorld Literature Today’s Notable Translations of 2022
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An unprecedented collection of women’s voices from the heart o
- Author: Batayeva, Zaure
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: July 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0999451480
- Language: English
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The Street of a Thousand Blossoms
$21.00 Add to cartGail Tsukiyama’s The Street of a Thousand Blossoms is a powerfully moving masterpiece about tradition and change, loss and renewal, and love and family from a glorious storyteller at the height of he
- Author: Tsukiyama, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 05 2008
- ISBN10: 0312384777
- Language: English
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From Ash to Ashes
$18.99 Add to cartA tragedy in Mira Singh’s life has left her devastated and mourning. No one in her family knows how to confront the tragedy that befalls them, and they place the blame on each other, and even on God.
- Author: Arora, Krishma Tuli
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1627204261
- Language: English
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Chinatown
$16.95 Read moreWINNER OF THE 2023 NATIONAL TRANSLATION AWARD IN PROSE
An abandoned package is discovered in the Paris Metro: the subway workers suspect it’s a terrorist bomb. A Vietnamese woman sitting nearby, her
- Author: Thuan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 0811231887
- Language: English
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Hanoi at Midnight: Stories
$29.95 Add to cartBreaking a thirty-year silence, Bảo Ninh has
permitted at last the publication of a new work in English. Ninh is perhaps
Vietnam’s foremost chronicler of the war, which he joined at age 17. Bringi… [more below]- Series: Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network
- Author: Ninh, Bao
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: March 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1682831620
- Language: English
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The Motion Picture Teller
$16.95 Read moreAn enchanting new standalone novel from CWA Dagger winner Colin Cotterill, set in Bangkok: a mystery without a crime, where the line between fact and fiction blurs, and nothing is as simple as it appe… [more below]
- Author: Cotterill, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1641295309
- Language: English
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The Storm We Made
$27.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK In this spellbinding novel, an ordinary housewife becomes an unlikely spy–and her dark secrets will test even the most unbreakable ties. Mala- Author: Chan, Vanessa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 02, 2024
- ISBN10: 1668015145
- Language: English
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What You Are Looking for Is in the Library
$21.99 Add to cartA TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
A WASHINGTON POST BEST FEEL GOOD BOOK OF 2023
For fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, a charming, internationally bestselling Japanese novel about how the perfect book reco
- Author: Aoyama, Michiko
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 1335005625
- Language: English
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The Garden of Evening Mists
$18.99 Add to cartThis “elegant and haunting novel of war, art and memory” (The Independent) award-winning novel from the acclaimed author of The Gift of Rain follows the only Malaysian survivor of a Japanese wartime c
- Author: Eng, Tan Twan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 04, 2012
- ISBN10: 1602861803
- Language: English
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Tali Girls: A Novel of Afghanistan
$22.00 Add to cartAn intimate look at the lives, loves, horrors, and dreams of girls and women in an Afghan mountain village under Taliban rule
A heartbreaking tragedy in the vein of The Kite Runner from a major Englis- Author: Herawi, Siamak
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 391
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1953861660
- Language: English
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The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
$18.95 Add to cartColombo, 1990. Maali Almeida–war photographer, gambler, and closet queen–has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira Lake and he
- Author: Karunatilaka, Shehan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 132406482X
- Language: English
