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Animal’s People by Indra Sinha [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 May, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Indian, Repost

animals-peopleA 2007 Booker Prize nominee, Sinha’s third title is presented as a series of 23 directly transcribed tapes, spoken by a creature called “Animal,” who was once human before an industrial chemical catastrophe (inspired by the...

MW by Osamu Tezuka, translated by Camellia Nieh [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Repost, Translation

mwWho knew the “godfather of manga” could be this dark? When a mysterious poison gas kills the inhabitants of a Japanese island that was once home to a foreign military base, two survivors are inextricably linked...

The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service (vols. 1-4) by Eiji Otsuka, art by Housui Yamazaki, translated by Toshifumi Yoshida, edited by Carl Gustav Horn [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Repost, Translation

kurosagi142 Four fabulous volumes (the fourth just out) about a mismatched clan that makes up the fantastically talented Kurosagi (“black crane”) Corpse Delivery Service. Five unemployed Buddhist university students band together to help corpses find eternal peace,...

God of Luck by Ruthanne Lum McCunn [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Repost

god-of-luckRuthanne Lum McCunn has built her literary career by breathing life into certain moments of forgotten history. Her latest title explores the little-known tragic experience during the 19th century when Chinese men were brutally...

The Reluctant Fundamentalist: A Novel by Mohsin Hamid [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Pakistani, Repost

reluctant-fundamentalistA deserved Booker 2007 shortlister, Hamid’s slim, powerful title is a deconstruction of the failure of the American Dream for those who look like the enemy. Changez is a young, accomplished Pakistani transplant with a Princeton...

Sold by Patricia McCormick

20 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Fiction, Nepali, Nonethnic-specific, Poetry, Verse Novel/Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers

Although her family is extremely poor, 13-year-old Lakshmi’s young life in a mountainous village in Nepal is not without moments of great joy and comfort. But then the monsoons arrive, leaving behind only destruction and...

The Assassin’s Song by M.G. Vassanji [in Christian Science Monitor]

04 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Fiction, Indian, Indian American, Repost, South Asian, South Asian American

assassins-songAt the heart of M.G. Vassanji's sixth novel, The Assassin's Song, is an exercise in perspective. Definitions of right and wrong, truth and deception, the chosen and outcast – especially in matters having to do with...

Mail (vols. 1-3) by Housui Yamazaki, translated by Douglas Varenas, edited by Carl Gustav Horn [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Repost, Translation

mail13 From the artist who brought you the inventively creepy Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service series comes a three-volume thriller that will cause goosebumps, even in 95 degree weather. Reiji Akiba, who grew up blind,...

I Love Dollars and Other Stories of China by Zhu Wen, translated by Julia Lovell [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Chinese, Fiction, Repost, Short Stories, Translation

i-love-dollarsForget pastoral countryside and quaint village life – this is post-Tiananmen China in which money rules and reinvention is the answer to survival in a new society defined by unleashed capitalism and greed. Six stories capture...

Love in a Fallen City by Eileen Chang, translated by Karen S. Kingsbury and Eileen Chang [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Chinese, Fiction, Repost, Short Stories, Translation

love-in-a-fallen-cityConsidered to be one of the great writers of 20th-century China since she hit the literary scene in the 1940s with a mighty bang, Chang died in obscurity in Los Angeles in 1995. Recently rediscovered thanks...

Lust Caution: The Story by Eileen Chang, translated with a foreword by Julia Lovell, afterword by Ang Lee with a special essay by James Schamus [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Chinese, Fiction, Hong Kongese, Japanese, Repost, Translation

lust-cautionThis single-story novella, to be released simultaneously with the eponymous film by Ang Lee, was undoubtedly inspired by Chang’s own relationship with a Japanese collaborator during the Japanese occupation of Shanghai and Hong Kong. As part...

Ode to Kirihito by Osamu Tezuka, translated by Camellia Nieh [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 May, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Repost, Translation

ode-to-kirihitoFrom the “godfather of manga” – who also had a medical degree! – comes the first English translation of the mysterious story of a dedicated young doctor, Kirihito Osanai, who is initially sent to a remote...

The Last Empress by Anchee Min [in San Francisco Chronicle]

01 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Chinese, Fiction, Repost

last-empress2Any way you look at it, royal life is hell. So here's yet another book to prove it. "Although I had every luxury and my duties were often rewarding, Imperial glory also meant loneliness and living...

Mona Lisa Awakening by Sunny [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Repost

mona-lisa-awakeningWhile her husband Da Chen writes sweeping literary historical sagas, newcomer Sunny offers a contemporary entertaining tale of young Mona Lisa who discovers she has latent super-powers. Turns out our heroine is actually half-Monère, an ancient...

The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific, Repost

memory-keepers-daughterWhat a beginning: a snowstorm, a home birth, surprise twins, and a split-second decision by a father to give away his Down Syndrome-daughter while his wife believes their lost child has died. While the small leftover...

Brothers: A Novel by Da Chen [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Repost

brothers1Author of bestselling memoirs Colors of the Mountain and Sounds of the River, Da Chen debuts his first novel for adults. The sprawling saga, set in late-20th-century China, follows the inevitably intertwined lives of two brothers...

Londonstani by Gautam Malkani [in Christian Science Monitor]

11 Jul, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, British, British Asian, Fiction, Repost, South Asian, Young Adult Readers

londonstaniHere's what makes Londonstani a difficult read: "Yeh, blud, safe ...

The Door to Bitterness by Martin Limón [in AsianWeek]

29 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean, Nonethnic-specific, Repost

Door To BitternessTwo American GIs stationed in Korea get caught up in a complicated casino robbery – and the layers only thicken from there. ‘Course, where there are GIs, there are prostitutes – don’t...

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See [in AsianWeek]

08 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Chinese, Chinese American, Fiction, Repost

Snow FlowerTwo interesting facts emerge: 1. young girls are bonded together to become laotongs (literally, “old sames”) for life and 2. women communicate using nu shu, a secret women-only written language. In the novel, 80-year-old...

Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam [in AsianWeek]

26 May, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, British, British Asian, Fiction, Pakistani, Repost, South Asian

Maps for Lost LoversPersonal favorite of the month – and favorite of many others as it won the Kiriyama Prize just recently. A pair of unmarried lovers goes missing. Five months...

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