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  • Singapore Comparative Literature Compendium Quick View
    • Singapore Comparative Literature Compendium Quick View
    • Academic, Humanities and Social Sciences, World Literature from Southeast Asia
    • Singapore Comparative Literature Compendium

    • edited by Sim Wai Chew and Yow Cheun Hoe Singapore Comparative Literature Compendium presents an array of essential readings from the local canon. A compelling argument for the comparative study of Singapore’s multilingual literature, the compendium aims to encourage inter-ethnic, inter-lingual, and inter-cultural transfer through the study of cultural expression across language and cultural divides within Singapore’s literary scene. Apart…
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  • Unrest Quick View
    • Unrest Quick View
    • World Literature, World Literature from Southeast Asia, World Literature from Taiwan
    • Unrest

    • GBP 13.99
    • by Yeng Pway Ngon   When the fervour of revolution is gone, what remains? Four leftist teenagers in 1950s Malaya dedicate themselves to overthrowing colonialism and bringing about a better world. With time, their paths diverge — into capitalism, into adultery, into the dark heart of the Cultural Revolution. Disillusioned and middle-aged, they look back at their lives from the…
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  • I Am Hua Mulan Quick View
    • I Am Hua Mulan Quick View
    • Picture Books, Young-Adult
    • I Am Hua Mulan

    • Original text by Qin Wenjun, Illustrations by Yu Rong, Translated by Helen Wang In my dream I am dressed as a warrior. I have long eyelashes. My hair ribbons flutter in the breeze. When I draw my dream, I see her… I see Hua Mulan. I see Hua Mulan, where the lands are gold and the skies are blue. This…
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  • Listen World! Quick View
    • Listen World! Quick View
    • Hearing Others' Voices
    • Listen World!

    • GBP 11.99
    • by Evelyn Glennie “This book is an invitation to tap into the wonders of listening, what that means to you and everything you engage in. What happens when you engage with the chatter in your head? When you travel to school and college. Is listening only about sound or can our whole body be a resonating chamber? Is listening about…
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  • Lonely Face Quick View
    • Lonely Face Quick View
    • World Literature, World Literature from Southeast Asia, World Literature from Taiwan
    • Lonely Face

    • GBP 10.99
    • by Yeng Pway Ngon Singapore, late 1980s. As women gain power and independence, what's an insecure guy to do? Lonely Face is the story of a man on the cusp of middle age, left behind by changing times. Fleeing his crumbling marriage on an overnight bus to Genting Highlands, he tries his luck at slot machines rather than the vagaries…
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  • The Honey and the Fires Quick View
    • The Honey and the Fires Quick View
    • World Literature
    • The Honey and the Fires

    • GBP 11.99
    • by Roger Pulvers Published originally in Australia by ABC Books and HarperCollins, and in Japanese translation by the major publishing house Shueisha, THE HONEY AND THE FIRES is a retelling of some of the most powerful stories from the Bible for our day and age. This new paperback edition contains a story that did not appear in the original publication: “The Story…
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  • Vacant Steppes Quick View
    • Vacant Steppes Quick View
    • World Literature, World Literature from Southeast Asia
    • Vacant Steppes

    • GBP 12.99
    • by Steven Sy As a second invasion by the Empire threatens the nomads of the Great Steppe, a new generation of leaders must mend the broken alliances of their fathers or face certain destruction. Vacant Steppes is a Mongolia-inspired epic fantasy novel about inheritance, family, and leadership in times of division and war. “A gripping tale of war, legacy and…
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  • Wedding in Autumn Quick View
    • Wedding in Autumn Quick View
    • World Literature, World Literature from Taiwan
    • Wedding in Autumn

    • GBP 11.99
    • by  Shih Chiung-Yu Haunted by memories of the Chinese Civil War in the late 1940s, nationalist soldiers from all over mainland China are doomed to live out their days in exile in Taitung County, along the southeastern shore of the island of Taiwan. The three novellas in this collection tell stories of Chinese men who were forced to leave their…
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  • Façonner la parole en Afrique de l’Ouest Quick View
    • Façonner la parole en Afrique de l’Ouest Quick View
    • Hearing Others' Voices
    • Façonner la parole en Afrique de l’Ouest

    • GBP 11.99
    • by Cécile Leguy Se dépayser dans une autre culture bien loin de la sienne, découvrir de façon vivante de nouveaux modes de communication et de sociabilité, tout cela sans voyager ? C’est le pari proposé au lecteur par la collection « Entendre la voix des autres », dirigée par la célèbre anthropologue britannique, Ruth Finnegan. La cible privilégiée en est…
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  • LIV Quick View
    • LIV Quick View
    • World Literature, World Literature from Europe
    • LIV

    • GBP 9.99
    • by Roger Pulvers "LIV is a gripping mystery, of a present haunted by the past, but also a profoundly moral book, asking of the reader: what would you do? In this, LIV deserves comparison with novels as great as An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro and The Reader by Bernhard Schlink." — David Peace, author of Tokyo Year Zero.…
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  • The Story of Ink and Water Quick View
    • The Story of Ink and Water Quick View
    • Picture Books
    • The Story of Ink and Water

    • GBP 10.99
    • illustrations by Liang Peilong   A long, long time ago, in a beautiful litter river lived Water Girl. She loved the river where she spent her days playing by the water. One day, she met Ink Boy. Ink Boy took a bath in the river---and instantly turned the river to a pitch black. Water Girl burst into tears, and Brush…
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  • Crystal Wedding Quick View
    • Crystal Wedding Quick View
    • World Literature, World Literature from China
    • Crystal Wedding

    • GBP 13.99
    • 2015 English Pen Translates Award; 2016 Financial Times / OppenheimerFunds Emerging Voices Awards (Longlisted). by Xu Xiaobin Yang Tianyi is a “leftover woman” and under pressure to find a husband. She is attractive and intelligent but knows little of the world, and finally makes a disastrous marriage to a man, Wang Lian. At the end of the 1980s, in Tiananmen…
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