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Island of Blood: Frontline Reports from Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, and Other South Asian Flashpoints by Anita Pratap [in AsianWeek]

28 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Afghan, Indian, Nonfiction, Repost, South Asian, Sri Lankan

Island of BloodThe paperback edition of an important title that explores the frontline news happening in a complicated, troubled, often misunderstood part of the world where war, terrorism and endless ethnic conflict have ravaged...

Tangled Threads: A Hmong Girl’s Story by Pegi Deitz Shea [in AsianWeek]

17 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Fiction, Laotian American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Southeast Asian American, Young Adult Readers

Tangled ThreadsHaving survived the horrors of war in her native Laos and 10 long years of living in a cramped, filthy, and dangerous refugee camp in Thailand, Mai Yang and her grandmother are finally allowed...

Culture and Resistance: Conversations with Edward W. Said by Edward W. Said and David Barsamian [in AsianWeek]

29 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Middle Eastern, Nonfiction, Palestinian, Palestinian American, Repost

Culture and ResistanceAn intriguing collection of interviews with one of the most brilliant minds today. Originally broadcast on KGNU in Boulder, Colo., the interviews cover such topics as the so-called peace process, the 2000...

Dust of Life by Cameron Michaels [in AsianWeek]

29 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Repost, Southeast Asian American, Vietnamese American

Dust of LifeThe book, apparently "based 80-90 percent on real stories," is admittedly over-the-top in a Miss Saigon sort of way. But the Donna/Mai story is everything Hollywood is searching for – so no...

The Tiger Ladies: A Memoir of Kashmir by Sudha Koul [in AsianWeek]

29 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Indian, Indian African, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, South Asian, South Asian American

Tiger LadiesKoul captures the lives of four generations of women in her native Kashmir, a tiny country caught between India and Pakistan since the Partition of 1947, the year of her birth. She weaves a...

Rules of the House by Tsering Wangmo Dhompa [in AsianWeek]

29 Aug, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Memoir, Poetry, Repost, Tibetan, Tibetan American

Rules of the House"It is not the accuracy of the story that concerns us," the author writes in the title's opening poem. "But who gets to tell it." Dhompa captures her fractured self...

The Girl with the White Flag by Tomiko Higa, translated by Dorothy Britton [in AsianWeek]

27 Jun, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Japanese, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Translation, Young Adult Readers

Girl with the White FlagFirst trade paperback edition of the harrowing memoir of a 6-year-old child who becomes separated from her family in the last days of World War II in Okinawa,...

Bamboo Among the Oaks: Contemporary Writing by Hmong Americans edited by Mai Neng Moua [in AsianWeek]

28 Mar, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Hmong American, Nonfiction, Poetry, Repost

Bamboo Among the OaksA landmark collection of vibrant prose and haunting poetry from a not-so-well-known, relatively new segment of the country’s growing APA community. Review: "New and Notable Books," AsianWeek, March 28,...

Grass Roof, Tin Roof by Dao Strom [in AsianWeek]

31 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Repost, Southeast Asian American, Vietnamese American

Grass RoofAn effective, haunting debut novel about three siblings growing up Vietnamese in America – an often disorienting experience reflected in an elliptical, impressionistic style. Review: "New and Notable Books," AsianWeek<a href="http://bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com/files/2009/05/2003-01-31-new-and-notable.pdf"...

The Women on the Island by Ho Anh Thai, translated by Phan Thanh Hao, Celeste Bacchi, and Wayne Karlin [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

01 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Fiction, Repost, Southeast Asian, Translation, Vietnamese

Women on the IslandFrom one of Vietnam’s most prolific writers, The Women on the Island offers a rare glimpse into post-war Vietnam, surely an unfamiliar scenario to most English-readers, about the lonely, isolated...

Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail by Malika Oufkir and Michele Fitoussi [in Christian Science Monitor]

19 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Memoir, Moroccan, Nonfiction, Repost

stolen-livesNever mind its faults. Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail, by Malika Oufkir and Michele Fitoussi is going to sell well. It's already a runaway bestseller in France, where it debuted in 1999 as...

The Girl in the Picture: The Story of Kim Phuc, the Photograph, and the Vietnam War by Denise Chong + Author and Subject Profiles [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

01 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Nonfiction, Repost, Southeast Asian, Southeast Asian American, Vietnamese

Girl in the PictureThe Girl in the Picture It is undoubtedly the most famous image of the tragedy of War: in its center, a young, naked girl screams in agony and terror, her thin...

A Blessing Over Ashes: The Remarkable Odyssey of My Unlikely Brother by Adam Fifield [in aOnline]

20 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Cambodian American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Southeast Asian, Southeast Asian American

Blessing Over AshesWith A Blessing Over Ashes: The Remarkable Odyssey of My Unlikely Brother, Adam Fifield adds a new twist to the currently trendy suffering-child memoir boom (a lá Angela’s Ashes – and really, no disrespect...

The Little Weaver of Thai-Yen Village by Khanh Tuyet Tran, illustrated by Nancy Hom [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

04 Mar, by SIBookDragon in Bilingual, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Repost, Southeast Asian, Southeast Asian American, Vietnamese, Vietnamese American

Little WeaverHien’s village is destroyed during the Vietnam War, killing her mother and grandmother. Hien is seriously injured and must go to the U.S. for an operation; after, she begins to live with an American...

Echoes of the White Giraffe by Sook Nyul Choi [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

03 Mar, by SIBookDragon in Fiction, Korean, Korean American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Echoes of the White GiraffeSookan, the protagonist from Year of Impossible Goodbyes, is now a teenage war refugee living in Pusan, South Korea, with her mother and younger brother, having...

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