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- World Literature, World Literature from Japan
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GBP 12.99
- by Roger Pulvers Roger Pulvers has been writing fiction set in Japan for over fifty years. Now, for the first time, a collection of his very best short stories has been brought together in a single volume. Some of these stories, like the one that gives the collection its title, The Charter tells the story of a man who has…
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- World Literature, Poetry, World Literature from Japan
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GBP 10.99
- Tanka by Takuboku Ishikawa Translated from the Japanese, Notes and Commentary by Roger Pulvers. Roger Pulvers' translations - with detailed notes and commentary - of Japan's greatest tanka poet, Takuboku Ishikawa, is now available here for the first time in this volume. Each tanka - a poem that in Japanese has thirty-one syllables - is a microcosm of the human…
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- World Literature, World Literature from Southeast Asia
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- Short Stories by Liang Wern Fook, Translated from the Chinese by Christina Ng Confucius sits in his chair. A mute uncle utters his first word in decades. A talking potato is sworn to confidentiality. These are stories written with Liang Wern Fook’s left hand. All authors write with this hand, coaxing out left-handed stories from a right-handed reality. Liang has…
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- — An Asian American Coming of Age Memoir by Karin K. Jensen Water is fluid, soft, yielding. But water will wear away rock...what is soft is strong. — Lao Tzu In 1920s Detroit, King Ying stands on a box to iron clothes in her parent’s laundry business and endures taunts of Ching-Ching Chinaman on the playground. She dreams of a…
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- World Literature, World Literature from Taiwan
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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
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GBP 13.99
- Story by Crystal Z. Lee Illustrations by Li Liu Rin is a Chinese unicorn from the Tang Dynasty. When Fan the Royal Phoenix goes missing, Rin and her magical friends have to help Princess Pingyang find her. Can they work together to complete the mission? Ages: 3+ ISBN: 978-1-913891-12-1 Format: Hardcover 216 x 280 mm Pages: 32 pp Colour Publication…
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- World Literature, Poetry, World Literature from South Asia
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GBP 11.99
- 50 Bangladeshi Women Poets in English Translated by Nabina Das and curated by Alam Khorshed "So often South Asian poetry feels to me like a body with severed limbs, all inaccessible to each other. This anthology is both healing of that and a recognition; with the very force of its thought and its omnivorous cosmopolitanism, it will defy every…
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- World Literature, World Literature from China
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- 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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- by Yeng Pway Ngon In the 1910s, thirteen-year-old Leong Ping Hung comes to Singapore from China to seek his fortune. Decades later, he is a lonely old man mourning his shattered dreams. His granddaughter Yu Sau struggles to take care of him while trying to make sense of her own life in a rapidly changing country. He speaks Cantonese, and…
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- by Chia Joo Ming Hok Leong only knows one thing about his future: he does not want to become an office boy buying coffee for his superiors. Beyond this, he wants only to roam the streets of Singapore with his rough and tumble gang of boys—that is, until he is assigned to be the Chinese tutor for the new…
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- by Huang Beijia Translated from the Chinese by Nicky Harman Nanjing, China, 1937. Eight-year-old Orange is uprooted from her comfortable home when the family is forced to flee from Japanese bombing raids. They take refuge in Chengdu, West China, where she grows up with her professor father, hard-working mother, two sisters, two brothers and Tianlu, a war orphan. At…
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- World Literature, World Literature from Europe, World Literature from Japan
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GBP 10.99
- by Roger Pulvers Half of Each Other takes place in Tokyo. It tells the story of Nick and Setsuko York, a once very fond married couple devoted to their adorable five-year-old daughter, Emi. Half of Each Other is the story of a woman and a man challenged by the shock of an overwhelming grief. Both are overcome by an immense…
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