New Book Announcement: “Danger No Problem” and “Sunday or the Highway” by Cindy Fazzi
Cindy Fazzi’s two-book series follows a Filipino American bounty hunter as he tracks down his most elusive assignments and discovers explosive secrets.
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It is the late twenty-first century, and Momo is the most celebrated dermal care technician in all of T City. Humanity has migrated to domes at the bottom of the sea to escape devastating climate change. The world is dominated by powerful media conglomerates and runs on exploited cyborg labor. Momo prefers to keep to…
New Book Announcement: “Wild Grass and Morning Blossoms Gathered at Dusk” by Lu Xun, translated by Eileen J Cheng
This captivating translation assembles two volumes by Lu Xun, the founder of modern Chinese literature and one of East Asia’s most important thinkers at the turn of the 20th century. Wild Grass and Morning Blossoms Gathered at Dusk represent a pinnacle of achievement alongside Lu Xun’s famed short stories.
“Burmese Haze: US Policy and Myanmar’s Opening—and Closing” by Erin Murphy
In Burmese Haze (a reference to George Orwell’s classic novel), former US official Erin Murphy gives a personalized history of the past fifteen years of Myanmar history, with particular focus on, if not always from the perspective of, US policy towards this often opaque Southeast Asian country. Murphy was herself in the thick of it,…
New Book Announcement: “After the Nobel Prize 1989-1994: The Non-Fiction Writing of Naguib Mahfouz”
Naguib Mahfouz was familiar to newspaper readers across Egypt for his column in the leading daily Al-Ahram, in which he reflected on issues of the day, from domestic and international events, politics and economics to culture. This volume brings together his articles written between January 1989 and the knife attack in October 1994 that almost…
New Book Announcement: “The Short Story Collective: 13 Tales from Japan” by Andrew Innes
The Short Story Collective is a thirteen-part journey through contemporary Japan with the odd stop along the way to visit both the past and the future.
New Book Announcement: “The Scent of Frangipani” by Anjana Rai Chaudhuri
It is 1931 in colonial Singapore. A Chinese bondmaid of fifteen stands trial for her aunt’s murder. Mei Mei, born on the inauspicious double seventh day, feels her doomed destiny taking over.
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