Balestier Press publishes the best and most original voices in Contemporary World Literature, Humanities and Social Sciences.
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- Literary Nonfiction, World Literature, World Literature from Southeast Asia
A-Maze : Myanmar’s Struggle for Democracy, 2011-2023
- GBP 15.99
- by Ma Thida Translated from the Burmese by Maung Zaw What's happening after the 2021 military coup attempt in Myanmar? Since the coup, people have been deeply shocked by how the Tatmadaw (army) has savagely undermined the pillars of democracy. Regarding the 2021 coup, there are two perspectives; while, on the one hand, Myanmar people have known all along that…
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- World Literature, World Literature from China
Bearing Word
- GBP 11.99
- 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
Diablo’s Boys
- by Yang Hao Translated from the Chinese by Nicky Harman and Michael Day Suwei is a teenage hermit with an overprotective mother and an addiction to video games. One day, another young man penetrates Suwei's hermetically sealed existence, and the two wander deep into the labyrinth of Diablo's virtual world. As Suwei and this enigmatic interloper, Li Wen, form an…
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- World Literature, World Literature from China, World Literature from Southeast Asia
Diasporic
- 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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- 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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- Picture Books
Tan Hou and the Double Sixth Festival
- Illustrations by Cai Gao Translated and adapted by Helen Wang When Tan Hou is born with three dragon marks on his body, his parents know he is special. But the dragon is the emperor’s symbol. The emperor’s men come looking for Tan Hou, but he is determined to honour his parents and stand up for his people. This is the story…
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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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- Graphic Novels, Literary Nonfiction, Memoir, Picture Books, World Literature, World Literature from Europe, World Literature from West Asia, Young-Adult
Yoghurt and Jam (or How My Mother Became Lebanese)
- GBP 15.99
- by Lena Merhej Translated from the Arabic by Nadiyah Abdullatif and Anam Zafar Winner of English Pen Award Lena Merhej’s graphic memoir Yoghurt and Jam is set in Lebanon, where tradition pairs yoghurt with cucumber and salt. Discovering how her mother likes her yoghurt sparks a captivating exploration of what led her mother from Germany to Lebanon, as well…
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- World Literature, World Literature from Taiwan
A Platform with No Timetable
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- 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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- World Literature, World Literature from China, World Literature from Southeast Asia
Clan
- 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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