Fixer Chao by Han Ong + Author Profile [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]
01 Dec, by in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Filipina/o, Filipina/o American, Repost, Southeast Asian, Southeast Asian American
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23. Han Ong: The Literary World's Latest Darling
Han Ong finds it “surprising and shocking and ticklish” that his first book is doing so well. Called an “inventively malevolent debut novel” by the...
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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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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Fluffy, dishy first novel based on Quan’s own experiences as an elite call girl in the big city.
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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...
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...
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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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 –...
From one of Taiwan’s best-known writers, Apples is a superb collection filled with sharp, resonating stories about simple native folk surviving day to day, fighting poverty and isolation.
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The latest in genius A Wild Sheep-creator Murakami’s repertoire of dreamy, mystical reveries, this time about the disappearance of the narrator’s quirky, unsettled writer friend.
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Funny, dark short story-debut about vaguely interrelated characters with challenging lives.
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Tongue-in-cheek, over-the-top humor fest about an ex-Hollywood child star glitterati wannabe looking for Mr. Right.
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Who needs Peter Mayle when we’ve got the original Chinese German Valley Girl?
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Currently my children's favorite book, 
Multiple Caldecott Medal-winner 
A perfectly titled, adorable counting story about ...
From traditional Indian folklore, Jaffrey reinvents and creates an entertaining tale of the faraway travels and adventures of a helpful elephant and the many friends he makes along the way.
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Asian American young-adult king Laurence Yep offers two books with recurring characters: In The Amah, Amy learns to shoulder more family responsibility when her widowed mother takes a time-consuming job, while in Angelfish, Amy's friend Robin...