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- World Literature, World Literature from China
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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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- Picture Books
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GBP 11.99
- Story and Illustrations by Meng Yanan Mother Bunny prepares a special family dinner for Mid-Autumn Festival. She sets out early in the morning and meets lots of friends along the way: Mother Hedgehog, Mother Squirrel, Little Bee, Uncle Beaver, Mother Duck and her ducklings. Little does she know that Mr Wild Wolf is sneaking after her… Translated by Jasmine Alexander…
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- World Literature, World Literature from Japan
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- by Roger Pulvers This fascinating fictional account of the life and times of Lafcadio Hearn probes the question: "What was the nature of this man, born wanderer, informant of the fiendish details of Japanese lore ... a man who chose to live his life 'in defiance of the season'?" Still considered by the Japanese to be the foreigner with the…
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- 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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- Literary Nonfiction, Memoir, World Literature from Japan
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- by Roger Pulvers Originally published in Japanese under the title If There Were No Japan: A Cultural Memoir, this book was acclaimed for its insights into Japanese life, bringing together aspects of history, culture and everyday life to paint an original and revealing portrait of the Japanese people and the pressing issues facing them today. During his decades of passionate…
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- Hearing Others' Voices, Humanities and Social Sciences
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GBP 10.99
- by Clara Sue Kidwell Every culture has some system of knowledge to explain its place in the world. Some of these systems are more complex than others, but each has an internal consistency based on what people have experienced. Some cultures have been characterized as “savage,” or “primitive” and have been considered as inferior by other cultures. Some cultures…
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- Literary Nonfiction, Memoir, World Literature from Japan
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- —A Memoir of Life in the United States, Europe, Japan and Australia by Roger Pulvers “Roger has fearlessly thrown himself into the whirlpool of cross-culturalism. His life reads like an adventure story.”—Ryuichi Sakamoto The Unmaking of an American is an engaging and entertaining cross-cultural memoir spanning decades of dramatic history on four continents. Author, playwright, translator, journalist, theater and film…
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- World Literature, World Literature from China
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GBP 12.99
- by Xu Xiaobin With her delightfully evocative prose, Xu Xiaobin presents us with a collection of stories crawling with fraught power dynamics, strange events, and unsettling images. Not only does she write about women, but the worlds around them, the fears that dog them, and the histories that haunt them. Xu’s entangled plots sneak up on the reader and make…
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- Hearing Others' Voices, Memoir
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GBP 9.99
- by Rob Janoff How do you brand a revolution? In his engaging new book, Taking a Bite out of the Apple: A Graphic Designer’s Tale, Rob Janoff – designer of the world-famous Apple logo – shares what it was like to live through the heady days of the home computer revolution. From his fateful meeting with Steve Jobs in Silicon Valley…
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- World Literature
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- The Contemporary Chinese Literature Anthology: 2017 presents eleven seminal works by leading and emerging Chinese writers, brought together in authoritative English translations. Each story—Cao Wenxuan’s Bat Scent, Fang Wei’s Tongue Hunter, Xi Yuan’s Explosive Birth, Zheng Peng’s The Missing Daughter, A Yuan’s The Other Land, Hu Xuewen’s Two-Way Street, Pan Ling’s The Elderly, Stealing Voices, Dong Jun’s Vacant Mountain,…
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- World Literature from Southeast Asia, Young-Adult
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- by Anupa Roy A climate crisis in the Ice Age. A cold snap leads to an unrelenting glacial. For our prehistoric ancestors survival is threatened. Food gets harder to find in the frigid lands of Central Asia. Yet the tribes living near the Altai Mountains have found a refuge. A river and a lake allows some plants and trees…
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- Hearing Others' Voices, World Literature from Africa
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GBP 12.99
- by Ruth Finnegan FBA It is a common notion that Africa has, and indeed ought to have, learned much from the west. This is not wrong; all cultures rightly learn from each other. But less is said of what there is to learn from Africa: from her stories, myths, music, proverbs, insights - and more. Here an acclaimed African scholar steps…
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