Balestier Press publishes the best and most original voices in Contemporary World Literature, Humanities and Social Sciences.
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- World Literature, World Literature from China
Bearing Word
- by Liu Liangcheng Translated from the Chinese by Jeremy Tiang The world is full of ghosts, but only donkeys can see them. Meanwhile, in the human world, war has been waging for a hundred years with no resolution in sight, the death toll climbing higher and higher like the pagodas of sound built by donkeys braying and humans chanting scripture.…
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- World Literature, World Literature from China, World Literature from Southeast Asia
Diasporic
- GBP 11.99
- Short Stories by Soon Ai Ling, Translated from the Chinese by Yeo Wei Wei Traditional Chinese cuisine, jade, batik, embroidery, and horticulture. In Soon Ai Ling’s fiction, newly translated into English by Yeo Wei Wei, the lives of twentieth-century Chinese diaspora unravel in the midst of emblems and environments resplendent with cultural influences from East and Southeast Asia. Life is…
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- World Literature, World Literature from China
Dinner for Six
- GBP 12.99
- by Lu Min Translated from the Chinese by Nicky Harman and Helen Wang Under the stench of factory skies, two single parents and their four teenaged children gather together for Saturday dinners. But can widowed accountant Su Qin ever publicly acknowledge her socially-mismatched relationship with Ding Bogang, a laid-off manual worker? Can she bear to see her ambitious and studious…
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- World Literature, World Literature from China, World Literature from South Asia
Flowers of Lhasa
- GBP 12.99
- by Tsering Yangkyi Translated from the Tibetan by Christopher Peacock Winner of English Pen Award Flowers of Lhasa is a stark and urgent tale of four young women thrown into the seedy underbelly of a sacred city undergoing rapid change. After coming to the big city to look for work, a tragedy befalls Drölkar and leads her to a nightclub…
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- Graphic Novels, Picture Books
Kresek: Daily Life of Plastic Bags
- GBP 9.99
- by Cynthia Delaney Suwito Some may like plastic bags for their convenience, while others may dislike them for polluting the environment. Regardless of anyone’s stance, the plastic bag as an object is just something that passes through our lives. Kresek is the rustling of plastic bags in Bahasa Indonesia. It is also the title of this light-hearted wordless comic, revolving…
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- World Literature, World Literature from Japan, Young-Adult
Night on the Milky Way Train (and nine other stories)
- GBP 13.99
- by Kenji Miyazawa Translated from the Japanese by Roger Pulvers. Night on the Milky Way Train occupies the place in the literature of Japan that Alice in Wonderland does in the English-speaking world. This amazing story of two boys – Kenji named them Giovanni and Campanella – who find themselves on a miraculous train running through the heavens, has entranced…
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- Graphic Novels, Picture Books
The Enchanted Bells
- GBP 11.99
- Story and Music by April Chung Illustrations by Li-Ling Chen Night has fallen. Silent night. The forest is shimmering with moonlit snow. All of a sudden, Marco Piccolo hears an enchanting melody. It comes from the depths of the forest. There, Marco stumbles across a Treble Clef Tree and seven glittering bells, each representing a musical note. The bells hold…
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- World Literature, World Literature from Europe
The Government Inspector for Two Actors
- GBP 10.99
- Translated from the original play in Russian, The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol, and adapted for two actors by Roger Pulvers Author, playwright, translator, theater and film director Roger Pulvers has translated and adapted one of world theater’s greatest comic classics, Nikolai Gogol’s The Government Inspector. This version for two actors, here in print for the first time, has been…
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- World Literature, World Literature from Taiwan
A Platform with No Timetable
- GBP 15.99
- Collection of Short Stories by Huang Chun-Ming Translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt A Taiwanese businessman is forced to serve as a pimp for a group of seven Japanese men in his home village of Chiao-hsi. The formerly well-respected Ah-Le and his wife bear the weight of shame that his impotence has brought upon them. A young man drives…
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- Picture Books, Young-Adult
Akbar’s India
- by Marcia Thompson Akbar’s India tells the story of Akbar (emperor of India 1556 -1605) through eight paintings. The paintings were selected from many produced in his workshops to tell the story of his remarkable reign. The book was written and the different exercises were devised to encourage children to give the pictures more than a cursory glance - to help…
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- World Literature, World Literature from Europe, World Literature from Japan
Black Dragonfly
- GBP 12.99
- by Jean Pasley The year is 1890. Western influences are flooding into Japan. A nomadic Irishman arrives to record this unique culture before it vanishes. In this richly imagined novel, late nineteenth century Japan is brought vividly to life. Based on the remarkable experiences of the Irish writer, Lafcadio Hearn, and drawing on his letters, essays and books, Jean Pasley…
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- World Literature, World Literature from China, World Literature from Southeast Asia
Clan
- GBP 12.99
- Short Stories by Soon Ai Ling, Adapted and Transcreated from the Chinese by Yeo Wei Wei The past gets in the way of present and future possibilities, yet without it, what hope is there for self-knowing and wisdom? These questions are explored in Yeo Wei Wei’s transcreation and adaptation of Soon Ai Ling’s stories. Characters are caught up in private…
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