New Book Announcement: “The Big Day” by Aliya Ali-Afzal
A funny, heartwarming and page-turning novel about a British-Asian mother and daughter, who clash over the plans for the bride’s Big Day.
New Book Announcement: “Commuting” by Christopher Bolduc
2014, Seoul, South Korea. The Sewol sinks. Russia takes Crimea. A novel flu threatens to turn the world upside down. Nunmaker, expatriate American, is fired without cause from one of three jobs. His wife, Ha, leaves him, but he doesn’t realize it until movers come for her piano.
New Book Announcement: “The Band” by Christine Ma-Kellams
This whip-smart, darkly funny, and biting debut follows a psychologist with a savior complex who offers shelter to a recently cancelled K-pop idol on the run. Sang Duri is the eldest member and “visual” of a Korean boy band at the apex of global superstardom. But when his latest solo single accidentally leads to controversy,…
“Never Never Land” by Namita Gokhale
“Sometimes we have to retreat to return.” So says Iti, who is living in Gurgaon but is far from happy. A freelance editor, struggling to make it as an author, her life is a mess. Feeling lost and unsuccessful, particularly compared to her more successful classmates, who are rich and married while she lives alone…
New Book Announcement: “Daughters of Shandong” by Eve J Chung
A propulsive, extraordinary novel about a mother and her daughters’ harrowing escape to Taiwan as the Communist revolution sweeps through China, by debut author Eve J. Chung, based on her family story.
New Book Announcement: “Hotel Arcadia” by Sunny Singh
First paperback publication for the acclaimed international thriller by Sunny Singh: A terrorist siege in a luxury hotel. Among the survivors … Sam: a war photographer, famous for her haunting pictures of the dead. Abhi: the hotel manager, desperate to keep the guests safe. He never wanted to be a hero; he just wants to…
New Book Announcement: “The Grip of Change” by P Sivakami
The Grip of Change is the English translation of Pazhaiyana Kazhithalum, the first full-length novel by P Sivakami, an important Tamil writer. This translation also features Asiriyar Kurippu, the sequel in which Sivakami revisits her work.
New Book Announcement: “Kurdistan + 100”, edited by Orsola Casagrande and Mustafa Gündoğdu
Kurdistan + 100 poses a question to contemporary Kurdish writers: Might the Kurds one day have a country to call their own? With 13 stories all set in the year 2046—exactly a century after the first glimmer of Kurdish independence, the short-lived Republic of Mahabad—this book offers a space for new expressions and new possibilities…
New Book Announcement: “South of the Yangtze” by Flora Qian
South of the Yangtze starts with the protagonist, Qian Yinan, taking the high-speed train through the landscape of Jiangnan (“South of the Yangtze River”) with her American husband. Now in her mid-thirties, Yinan recalls her first trip along the same route in the late 1980s, as well as her Shanghai childhood with her “historical counter-revolutionary”…
New Book Announcement: “When the Kurinji Blooms” by Rajam Krishnan
Kurinjithen, literally honey of the kurinji flower, is a timeless poem in prose that transports you to the lush Nilgiris where this beautiful blue flower grows wild and to the land of the Badagas who inhabit these hills. It is also Rajam Krishnan’s eulogy to a vanished world and way of life. Once in twelve…
New Book Announcement: “The Man Who Walked Backwards and Other Stories” by S Ramakrishnan
The Man Who Walked Backwards and Other Stories is an anthology of eighteen short stories by S Ramakrishnan, the popular and critically acclaimed master of modern Tamil writing. The stories in this collection are a celebration of eccentricities: they feature characters who defy conventions, and who listen to their inner selves instead of conforming to…
New Book Announcement: “Upcountry” by Chin-Sun Lee
Claire Pedersen and her husband relocate from NYC to the Catskills after finding a terrific deal on a property in foreclosure. The house has been in April Ives’ family for three generations, but the single mother of three children from two different fathers needs the money. Claire and April are instantly antagonistic, but the sale…
New Book Announcement: “The In-Betweeners” by Khem K Aryal
The stories in Khem K Aryal’s new collection present a deeply human perspective on the travails—and triumphs—of a group of Nepalese immigrants struggling with the consequences of their decision to come to America.
New Book Announcement: “Kingdoms in Peril, Volumes 1-4” by Feng Menglong, translated by Olivia Milburn
One of the great works of Chinese literature, Kingdoms in Peril is an epic historical novel charting the five hundred years leading to the unification of the country in 221 BCE under the rule of the legendary First Emperor. Writing some fourteen hundred years later, the Ming-era author Feng Menglong drew on a vast trove…
New Book Announcement: “The Goodby Cat” by Hiro Arikawa
A huge bestseller in Japan, this is the highly anticipated second book from the global bestselling author of The Travelling Cat Chronicles. Made up of seven short stories, The Goodbye Cat takes readers on a journey around Japan.
