Edinburgh by Alexander Chee [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]
01 Dec, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Hapa/Mixed-race, Korean American, Repost
Lyrical debut about Korean American hapa, Fee, who survives child molestration, and the subsequent relationship he unwittingly falls into with his molestor’s teenage son.
Review: "New and Notable," aMagazine: Inside Asian America, December 2001/January...
Delightful debut about two teenage boys sent to be “re-educated” during Mao’s Cultural Revolution and their love for a local village girl and banned western literature.
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Title says it all. It's the third edition, by the way, of The Beacon Best, in case you want to check out the others.
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Groundbreaking, inspiring celebration of more than three decades of Asian American activism.
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Intriguing, disturbing short story collection from the author of haunting Red Sorghum.
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A writer tries to reconstruct the life of a childhood acquaintance – an ex-combat nurse during Vietnam – after her sudden suicide.
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Asian American Studies guru captures 200 years of Asian Pacific American history. Together with the 
Fluffy, dishy first novel based on Quan’s own experiences as an elite call girl in the big city.
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Anthology of writings by Japan’s favorite American gaijin, credited with introducing Japanese film to the West.
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Fascinating essay collection about being various shades of hapa.
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The Dealmaker
Six years ago, as a brand-new literary agent, Theresa Park was handed a certain letter by her then assistant. It came from the unwanted slush pile (one toss away from the garbage can)...
Flower Power
Ask any Asian American familiar with musicals, and they’ll probably be able to sing “I Enjoy Being a Girl," recalling endless images of mirror-cloned Nancy Kwans. Like it or not, as...
The latest novel by this year’s Nobel Prize winner examines dislocation, tragic relationships, and the ultimately redemptive powers of love. Willie Chandran, born in India to a Brahmin who married down, immigrates...
Perhaps the biggest news in translated Asian titles is the rebirth of the world’s first novel, The Tale of Genji, by Lady Murasaki Shikibu, translated for the third time into English, this...
Here's the updated, revised second edition of the bestselling academic classic. Put it together with the two-parter Sources of Japanese Tradition, Volume Two: 1600 to 2000, and you'll have the...
This welcome collection offers a look at some of the later works of the prolific 17th-century Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725), still considered to be Japan’s most famous playwright.
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Hats off to Columbia University Press for being the über-publisher of translated titles year, including The Columbia History of Chinese Literature, which happens to be the first comprehensive...
Available for the first time in English translation, Mistress and Maid is a renowned 17th-century Chinese classic tragedy about ill-fated lovers who refuse to be parted.
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In a new translation by Xie’s own daughter Lily Chia Brissman and Barry Brissman, this autobiography gives a fresh new voice to a revolutionary Chinese woman who lived almost the entire 20th century –...
A worthy compilation of hundreds of poems by some 50 poets that highlights the diversity of Taiwanese poetry spanning the 20th century.
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