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  • Bearing Word Quick View
    • Bearing Word Quick View
    • 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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  • Diasporic Quick View
    • Diasporic Quick View
    • World Literature, World Literature from China, World Literature from Southeast Asia
    • Diasporic

    • GBP 11.99
    • 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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  • Dinner for Six Quick View
    • Dinner for Six Quick View
    • 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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  • 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, 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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  • 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

    • 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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  • Yoghurt and Jam (or How My Mother Became Lebanese) Quick View
    • Yoghurt and Jam (or How My Mother Became Lebanese) Quick View
    • Graphic Novels, Memoir, Picture Books, World Literature, 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 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 as triggering…
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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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  • Clan Quick View
    • Clan Quick View
    • World Literature, World Literature from China, World Literature from Southeast Asia
    • Clan

    • GBP 12.99
    • 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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  • Letters to Jude Quick View
    • Letters to Jude Quick View
    • World Literature, World Literature from Europe
    • Letters to Jude

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    • by James Lawless Unable to find emotional rapport with his wife, Lil, with whom he shares a childless marriage, middle-aged and ailing librarian Leo Lambkin begins a correspondence with an old flame, Bernarda, who writes to him after she hears of the tragic death of his mother. Bernarda, whom Leo disguises as Jude, informs him that he is the father…
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  • More Than One Child Quick View
    • More Than One Child Quick View
    • Memoir, World Literature
    • More Than One Child

    • GBP 16.99
    • — Memoirs of an illegal daughter by Shen Yang, translated 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 birth. From being…
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  • Poems 2020: Translation from Russian, Polish and Japanese, Notes and Commentary Quick View
    • Poems 2020: Translation from Russian, Polish and Japanese, Notes and Commentary Quick View
    • Poetry, World Literature, World Literature from Europe, World Literature from Japan
    • Poems 2020: Translation from Russian, Polish and Japanese, Notes and Commentary

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    • Translation from Russian, Polish and Japanese, Notes and Commentary by Roger Pulvers. THE YEAR 2020 was the year the world turned inward. We may have stayed at home, but this was a time to look deeply inside ourselves to find connections that we carry in us with all people all around the world. ACCLAIMED AUTHOR and translator Roger Pulvers recorded…
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