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People from Bloomington by Budi Darma, translated by Tiffany Tsao [in Shelf Awareness]

19 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Indonesian, Repost, Short Stories, Translation

More than four decades after its Indonesian debut, the fascinating People from Bloomington by Budi Darma (1937-2021), one of Indonesia's most lauded authors, arrives for English-language readers. Darma (Conversations) wrote these seven stories in peripatetic jaunts between 1976 and 1979, when he was a master's and...

Fly on the Wall by Remy Lai [in Shelf Awareness]

18 Sep, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Australian, Australian Asian, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Indonesian, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Singaporean

Duplicating the prose and graphic hybrid format of her award-winning debut, Pie in the Sky, Indonesia-born Remy Lai presents Fly on the Wall, another pitch-perfect middle-grade book about the longing to belong. As the youngest Khoo, 12-year-old Henry is "FORBIDDEN from Doing Anything on His Own...

The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida by Clarissa Goenawan [in Library Journal]

08 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Indonesian, Japanese, Repost, Singaporean

Indonesian-born, Singaporean-domiciled Clarissa Goenawan (Rainbirds) takes her sophomore title back to a death in remote Japan. This time, death arrives via suicide, claiming the titular Miwako, an enigmatic university sophomore who disappears without notice, and is found only after death. Desperate to comprehend her fatal...

The Majesties by Tiffany Tsao [in Shelf Awareness]

17 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Australian, Fiction, Indonesian, Repost, Southeast Asian

Since comparisons to Kevin Kwan's Crazy Rich Asians seem unavoidable, here's what might be familiar: yes, crazy, rich, Asian characters populate Tiffany Tsao’s The Majesties. Differences, however, immediately overshadow superficial similarities, most obviously from the very first sentence: "When your sister murders three hundred people,...

Kitchen Curse: Stories by Eka Kurniawan, translated by Annie Tucker, Tiffany Tsao, Maggie Tiojakin, and Benedict Anderson [in Library Journal]

18 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Indonesian, Repost, Short Stories, Translation

Eka Kurniawan, the first Man Booker International Prize-nominated Indonesian writer (he was long-listed in 2016 for Man Tiger), makes his collection-in-English debut, with the majority of the 16 stories translated by Annie Tucker, his PEN/Heim Translation Fund-awarded Beauty Is a Wound translator; three of the...

Captain Long Ears by Diana Thung

02 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Australian, Australian Asian, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Indonesian, Middle Grade Readers, Young Adult Readers

So enthralled by Diana Thung's August Moon earlier this week, I immediately ordered Captain (her first and only other title thus far), and was delightfully tickled to find a blurb on the back cover from Gene Luen Yang (of first-ever National Book Award graphic novel finalist-fame for American Born Chinese): "Goofy and endearing...

August Moon by Diana Thung

28 Nov, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Australian, Australian Asian, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Indonesian, Middle Grade Readers, Southeast Asian, Young Adult Readers

Get ready for surreal delight. When a mysterious creature with an imbedded bullet turns up, Fi and her scientist father head to the town of Calico – linked "to the rest of the country! and the world!" by a single bridge. They'll be staying with Fi's Uncle...

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama

16 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Audio, Black/African American, Indonesian, Indonesian American, Nonfiction, Pacific Islander, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Southeast Asian, Southeast Asian American, Young Adult Readers

The inaugural post for a historic inaugural year! While finding out so much more about our first African American president, you can also discover his Asian Pacific American cultural heritage, as well. He was born in Hawai’i, his father-figure ages 4-6 was an Indonesian man, Lolo...

The Killing Sea by Richard Lewis [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Indonesian, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Repost, Southeast Asian, Young Adult Readers

killing-sea American teenager Sarah would much rather be hanging out with her friends back home in an air-conditioned mall than being stuck with her family vacationing in faraway Indonesia. When the massive tsunami of 2004 hits the...

All That Is Gone: Stories by Pramoedya Ananta Toer, translated by Willem Samuels [in AsianWeek]

27 Feb, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Indonesian, Repost, Short Stories

All That Is Gone Lyrical collection of semi-autobiographical short stories by one of Asia's most famous authors. The title story is a heartbreaking memory piece of a boy's first years that captures through young,...

BookDragon Indonesian

People from Bloomington by Budi Darma, translated by Tiffany Tsao [in Shelf Awareness]

Fly on the Wall by Remy Lai [in Shelf Awareness]

The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida by Clarissa Goenawan [in Library Journal]

The Majesties by Tiffany Tsao [in Shelf Awareness]

Kitchen Curse: Stories by Eka Kurniawan, translated by Annie Tucker, Tiffany Tsao, Maggie Tiojakin, and Benedict Anderson [in Library Journal]

Captain Long Ears by Diana Thung

August Moon by Diana Thung

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama

The Killing Sea by Richard Lewis [in Bloomsbury Review]

All That Is Gone: Stories by Pramoedya Ananta Toer, translated by Willem Samuels [in AsianWeek]

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