From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey by Pascal Khoo Thwe [in AsianWeek]
29 Nov, by in Adult Readers, Memoir, Myanmarese (Burmese), Nonfiction, Repost, Southeast Asian
A touching memoir that traces the life of a young man from a tribal village in Burma. Thwe comes of age amidst political and economic turmoil, from his experiences as...
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Memorable volume of collected plays by one of the most hard-working, prolific, talented, tenacious – not to mention incredibly charming – playwrights of our generation: Red, Scissors, A Beautiful Country, and Wonderland.
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Adorable, fabulous story about four families who travel to China to meet and bring home their four waiting little girls.
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Often hilarious, surprisingly poignant play which looks at the life and works of the all-too-often caricatured Yoko Ono, perhaps the more talented (gasp! dare we say that?) of the Lennon-Ono duo.
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An ultimately readable volume about race in America, which has moved beyond the black and white paradigm, written by the three co-directors of the American Assembly on Racial Equality, the...
Delightfully illustrated little collection of interwoven poems that tells of oversized Duncan’s visit to Little Dog’s house.
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A remarkable, gracefully written work based on the true story of the authors’ parents’ early lives: their mother, the privileged daughter of a prominent minister in North Korea, and their...
A collection of haunting, surreal, signature-Murakami stories that have at their core a tenuous, frightening connection to the devastating 1995 earthquake in Kobe, Japan.
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