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Historical fiction

“Plastic Emotions” by Shiromi Pinto

Minette de Silva
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An imagined love affair between two great architects of the 20th century is the foundation of this lyrical novel by Shiromi Pinto.

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Fiction Posted on 6 August 20197 August 2019

“Gun Island” by Amitav Ghosh

Amitav Ghosh (photo: Ivo van der Bent)
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A new kind of politics is taking over the world, leaving most of those who thought they understood the business quite baffled. Very few were able to predict the movement across the world that led to the rise of what is now described—inevitably, a posteriori—as right wing populism.

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FictionReviews Posted on 20 July 201920 July 2019

“Heaven and Hell: A Novel of a Manchukuo Childhood” by Takarabe Toriko

Manchukuo, 1940s postcard
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In 1932 a new Asian country suddenly came into being in northeastern China. It was named Manchukuo, and it had been created as a result of the so-called “Mukden Incident”, in which Japanese soldiers had detonated a small charge of dynamite on a Japanese-built railway line and then claimed that Chinese dissidents had done it.

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FictionNew book announcement Posted on 29 May 201929 May 2019

New Book Announcement: “Repentance” by Andrew Lam

Repentance, Andrew Lam (Tiny Fox Press, May 2019)
Repentance, Andrew Lam (Tiny Fox Press, May 2019)

A Japanese American war hero has a secret. A secret so awful he’d rather die than tell anyone—one so entwined with the brave act that made him a hero that he’s determined never to speak of the war. Ever.

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FictionNew book announcementSponsored content Posted on 23 May 201925 May 2019

“Circumstance” by Rosie Milne

W. Somerset Maugham
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Dark secrets in the steamy jungle of British colonial Malaya are the subject of this engrossing retelling of William Somerset Maugham’s short story, The Force of Circumstance.

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FictionReviews Posted on 29 April 201910 May 2019

“The Lives Before Us” by Juliet Conlin

“A Jewish girl and her Chinese friends in the Shanghai Ghetto during WWII", from the collection of the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum (Wikimedia Commons)
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Despite the not-entirely-rare memoirs, novels, and narratives about Jewish refugees in Shanghai during World War II, it remains a little-known corner of history. Juliet Conlin’s new novel tells a story of two of them.

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FictionReviews Posted on 3 April 20193 April 2019

News: “The Devils’ Dance” by Hamid Ismailov wins €20,000 EBRD Literature Prize

Hamid Ismailov
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The first Uzbek novel to be translated into English has been awarded the 2019 EBRD Literature Prize. Author Hamid Ismailov and translator Donald Rayfield will share the €20,000 award.

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