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  • Flowers of Lhasa Quick View
    • Flowers of Lhasa Quick View
    • 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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  • Night on the Milky Way Train (and nine other stories) Quick View
    • Night on the Milky Way Train (and nine other stories) Quick View
    • World Literature, World Literature from Japan
    • 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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  • Picking off new shoots will not stop the spring Quick View
    • Picking off new shoots will not stop the spring Quick View
    • Poetry, World Literature, World Literature from Southeast Asia
    • Picking off new shoots will not stop the spring

    • GBP 11.99
    • Witness poems and Essays from Burma/Myanmar (1988-2021)  edited by Ko Ko Thett and Brian Haman  Fallen innocents on blood-stained streets. The defiant banging of pots and pans echoing in the darkness. The birth of a springtime revolution amidst the interrupted lives of a country and its people. On the morning of 1 February 2021, a coup d’état was initiated by…
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  • Raise the Bottles Quick View
    • Raise the Bottles Quick View
    • World Literature, World Literature from Taiwan
    • Raise the Bottles

    • GBP 15.99
    • Collection of Short Stories by Huang Chun-Ming Translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt From trains to classrooms to mountains, in this collection of short stories, Huang Chunming traverses across the Taiwan island to deliver his readers bewitching stories of love, loss, and family. Each story crafts a poignant snapshot depicting private minds in public spaces. A young man has…
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  • The Blood of Gutoku Quick View
    • The Blood of Gutoku Quick View
    • World Literature, World Literature from Japan
    • The Blood of Gutoku

    • GBP 12.29
    • A Jack Riddley Mystery in Japan by J. W. Traphagan Jack Riddley is an anthropologist all too ready to retire - he is done with university politics and is eager to start his new life in a sleepy village in northern Japan. What wasn't involved in his retirement plan is for a murder to occur just as he arrives in…
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  • The Government Inspector for Two Actors Quick View
    • The Government Inspector for Two Actors Quick View
    • World Literature, World Literature from Europe
    • The Government Inspector for Two Actors

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    • 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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  • Wholly Esenin: Poems by Sergei Esenin Quick View
    • Wholly Esenin: Poems by Sergei Esenin Quick View
    • Poetry, World Literature, World Literature from Europe
    • Wholly Esenin: Poems by Sergei Esenin

    • GBP 13.99
    • Translated from the Russian, Notes and Commentary by Roger Pulvers. "If you want to know how Russians feel about their country, read the poetry of Sergei Esenin. "The 'old plank bridge' spans not only eras but centuries; not only one Russia with another, but Russia with the rest of the world." So writes acclaimed author and translator Roger Pulvers about…
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  • A Platform with No Timetable Quick View
    • A Platform with No Timetable Quick View
    • 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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  • Arise out of the Lock Quick View
    • Arise out of the Lock Quick View
    • Poetry, World Literature, World Literature from South Asia
    • Arise out of the Lock

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    • 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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  • Black Dragonfly Quick View
    • Black Dragonfly Quick View
    • World Literature, World Literature from Europe, World Literature from Japan
    • Black Dragonfly

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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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  • Exile or Pursuit Quick View
    • Exile or Pursuit Quick View
    • World Literature, World Literature from Southeast Asia
    • Exile or Pursuit

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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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  • More than One Child Quick View
    • More than One Child Quick View
    • Memoir, World Literature, World Literature from China
    • More than One Child

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    • — Memoirs of an illegal daughter by Shen Yang Translated from Chinese by Nicky Harman   ‘I broke a law simply by being born.’ In the late 1980s, Shen Yang was born during the fiercest years of China’s One-Child Policy. As the second daughter of the family, she was a massive liability – an excess child, a product of illegal…
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