The Interpreter by Suki Kim + Author Interview [in AsianWeek]
24 Jan, by in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Fiction, Korean American, Repost
Literary Vagabond Suki Kim Makes Her Debut
Suki Kim and I have so many similarities in our respective pasts that we most certainly have crossed paths before. We were both in London at the same time, studying...
An absolutely fabulous first novel about young Indian American named Rajiv Kothari, and his path to understanding his recently deceased father, his father’s view of life as an immigrant, and his own...
When My Name Was Keoko is the first title for young audiences to deal with the Japanese occupation of Korea during the first half of the 20th century, a torturous part of history about which few...
From the author of the National Book Award-winner, Waiting, another spare, disarming, amazing novel about trying to survive life in post-Mao China. Jian Wan, a graduate student in literature, cares for his hospitalized mentor, a professor,...
Three generational-saga of a south Indian village family, which begins in 1899 with the patriarch, Solomon Dorai, village headman, and continues through a tumultuous period of political upheavals and changes...
Journey to the East: Katy Robinson's search for her Korean family in A Single Square Picture
BOISIE, IDAHO — In 1977 at the age of 7, Kim Ji-yun left Seoul and arrived in...
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...
Over 60 years ago, the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 – “a day that will live in infamy” as then-President Roosevelt named it – eventually led to the signing of Executive Order 9066...
The much awaited follow-up to the bestselling A Fine Balance. A family saga of sorts, set in a Bombay apartment (really, it’s getting to be a genre of its own!), about an elderly, Parkinson’s...
A semi-autobiographical novel about a famous writer obsessed with literature, William Blake, and dealing with parenting a mentally disabled child.
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A sweeping saga of Tibet before the Chinese occupation, told through the privileged view of the self-proclaimed “renowned idiot son” of a Tibetan chieftain.
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Lively tale of a poor man’s son who wins the hand of the Khan’s daughter through pure luck, faith, and eventually humility, in spite of demons, enemy armies, a mysterious warrior, and of course,...
A humorous, adorable tale set in a Japanese American farming community in the 1920s, about a father and son who go out to Farmer Tanaka’s fields in search of the ghosts that...
A lovely, poignant story about a young boy who grows flowers on the windowsill of the city apartment he shares with his mother, hoping to surprise her when she finally returns from...
The Making of a Hero
Helie Lee's Rescue Mission
When Helie Lee wrote her first book, the bestselling Still Life With Rice: A Young American Woman Discovers the Life and...
Hip debut fiction by Canadian Chong, chronicling a week in the life of 18-year-old Saul St. Pierre, the slacker son of a famous folk-singing couple, coming to terms with the suicide of his estranged mother.
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Powerful, timely collection of testimonies from the survivors of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's infamous Executive Order 9066, and reactions from their children.
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