To Swim Across the World by Frances and Ginger Park [in AsianWeek]
26 Sep, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean, Korean American, North Korean, Repost, Young Adult Readers
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Fox Girl takes readers back to post-Korean War “America Town,” where the abandoned, racially mixed children of U.S. soldiers fought for bare survival and Korean women continued to service occupying GIs in order to put food...
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Debut collection filled with diverse, disturbing, haunting, entertaining miniatures of Indian and Indian American life.
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A remarkable collection of disturbing short stories about lost love, betrayal, unrequited passions, obsession, and ultimate sacrifices. Louis’s characters may not inhabit lengthy pages, but the memory of them will...
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Letters from Ogura to his young wife, who survived the actual bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, only to die of radiation sickness...
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.
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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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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...
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...
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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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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