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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...

Facing the Bridge by Yoko Tawada, translated with an afterword by Margaret Mitsutani [in Bloomsbury Review]

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

facing-the-bridgeIf I were to make my mother the happiest mother in the world, I’d finish at least one of my PhDs by writing that elusive dissertation on Yoko Tawada and her fantastical, enigmatic, revisionist, ambiguous short...

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...

First Daughter: Extreme American Makeover by Mitali Perkins [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 May, by SIBookDragon in Fiction, Indian American, Middle Grade Readers, Pakistani American, Repost, South Asian American, Young Adult Readers

first-daughterextreme-american-makeoverWith her Republican front-runner father, Sameera “Sparrow” Righton just might be headed to the White House. That is, if her father’s PR spinners can make her more ‘all-American,’ given her Pakistani heritage as the beloved adopted...

The River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma by Thant Myint-U [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 May, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Memoir, Myanmarese (Burmese), Nonfiction, Repost

river-of-lost-footsteps1Interweaving his own multigenerational family history, Thant thoughtfully presents the troubled story of his homeland from ancient times to its colonized modern legacy. Thant’s grandfather, U Thant, figures prominently in the title, once a small town...

Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform by Stephan Haggard and Marcus Noland, with foreword by Amartya Sen [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 May, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Korean, Nonfiction, North Korean, Repost

famine-in-north-koreaAn expansive, statistics-filled look at why 600,000 to a million North Koreans died in the mid-1990s during one of the worst famines of the 20th-century. In spite of so-called government reforms and the push for growing...

Author Interview: Marjane Satrapi [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 May, by SIBookDragon in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Iranian, Memoir, Nonfiction, Persian, Repost, Translation, Young Adult Readers

persepolisMarjane Satrapi on the "Axis of Evil," Cheese, and Exploring Family History Marjane Satrapi changed my reading life. Before I picked up Persepolis, her fabulous autobiographical debut about growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution, I had...

San Francisco’s International Hotel: Mobilizing the Filipino American Community in the Anti-Eviction Movement by Estella Habal [in San Francisco Chronicle]

19 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Filipina/o American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Southeast Asian American

san-franciscos-international-hotel This is not a spoiler: Estella Habal's San Francisco's International Hotel: Mobilizing the Filipino American Community in the Anti-Eviction Movement is a story with a happy ending. Proof positive is the 2-year-old International Hotel, which stands...

The Barn Owl’s Wondrous Capers by Sarnath Banerjee

01 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Indian, South Asian

Barn Owls Wondrous CapersI have to admit that I had never heard of Indian graphic novels (just not on my radar, even though I have a heavy South Asian diasporic literary bent because...

Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle against World Poverty by Muhammad Yunus

01 Mar, by SIBookDragon in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, Audio, Bangladeshi, Memoir, Nonfiction

Banker to the PoorThis is one of those life-changing books. Truly. I read it just before my first-ever trip to India (hoping to also go to Bangladesh at some point, but hasn't happened...

Princess Masako: Prisoner of the Chrysanthemum Throne: The Tragic True Story of Japan’s Crown Princess by Ben Hills [in San Francisco Chronicle]

30 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Awful Duds, Biography, Japanese, Repost

princess-masako1What's wrong with this picture?: An independent, cosmopolitan young woman, educated at Harvard and Oxford, proficient in six languages, who is on the fast track to becoming a diplomat in spite of a male-dominated society, gives...

Feather in the Storm: A Childhood Lost in Chaos by Emily Wu and Larry Engelmann [in San Francisco Chronicle]

06 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Chinese, Chinese American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost

feather-in-the-storm1Imagine a childhood marked by separation, isolation, abuse, sexual assault, disease and starvation. And imagine feeling lucky – because you survived such atrocities. The most tragic irony of all is that Emily Wu is indeed lucky, even...

Just Americans: How Japanese Americans Won a War at Home and Abroad by Robert Asahina [in Christian Science Monitor]

23 May, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Japanese American, Nonfiction, Repost

just-americansWith their loved ones incarcerated behind barbed wire in internment camps, the segregated, all-Japanese American 100th Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team, led by Korean American Col. Young Oak Kim who recently passed away, became the most decorated...

69 by Ryu Murakami, translated by Ralph F. McCarthy [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 May, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese, Repost, Translation

69That’s 1969, when student uprisings shut down Tokyo University, the Beatles put out The White Album, the Rolling Stones released “Honky Tonk Women,” and war raged on in Vietnam. In a Japanese small city high school,...

Strange Future: Pessimism and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots by Min Hyoung Song [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 May, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Korean American, Nonfiction, Repost

strange-futureThe Los Angeles riots that broke out on April 29, 1992, was a turning point for the Korean American community. But the events affected not only Korean Americans, but reverberated through U.S. society at large. Using...

Weedflower by Cynthia Kadohata [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 May, by SIBookDragon in Fiction, Japanese American, Middle Grade Readers, Native American/First Nations/Indigenous Peoples, Repost, Young Adult Readers

weedflowerAfter Pearl Harbor is bombed, every little thing changes for 12-year-old Sumiko, who lives on her aunt and uncle’s flower farm in California with her brother and cousins. Even though she’s an American, Sumiko and her...

A Boy No More by Harry Mazer [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 May, by SIBookDragon in Fiction, Japanese American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Young Adult Readers

boy-no-moreThe return in a new paperback edition of the second of a resonating historical trilogy that follows the young life of Adam Pelko. In A Boy at War, Adam is a high school student who experiences...

The Royal Ghosts: Stories by Samrat Upadhyay [in Christian Science Monitor]

21 Mar, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Nepali, Nepali American, Repost, Short Stories, South Asian, South Asian American

royal-ghostsWhile Samrat Upadhyay's latest short story collection, The Royal Ghosts: Stories, offers no happy endings, few feel-good moments, and hardly any contented characters, it is most undoubtedly an enticing book to savor and reread for all...

Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora by Andrew Lam, foreword by Richard Rodriguez [in AsianWeek]

14 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Southeast Asian, Southeast Asian American

Perfume DreamsLam’s keen journalistic experience as NPR commentator and Pacific News Service editor comes through clearly in this collection of noteworthy essays. He weaves personal story and reports from the Vietnamese American community of which...

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