Skip to content
Balestier Press
  • Books
    • Academic
    • Literature
      • World Literature from South Asia
      • World Literature from Southeast Asia
      • World Literature from Taiwan
      • World Literature from Japan
      • World Literature from China
      • World Literature from Europe
    • Poetry
    • Young-Adult
    • Picture Books
    • Graphic Novels
    • Memoir
  • Series
    • World Literature from South Asia
    • World Literature from Southeast Asia
    • World Literature from Taiwan
    • World Literature from Japan
    • World Literature from China
    • World Literature from Europe
    • Hearing Others’ Voices
  • About
    • About Balestier Press
    • Publish with us
    • Contact
  • 0
0 Menu Close
  • Books
    • Academic
    • Literature
      • World Literature from South Asia
      • World Literature from Southeast Asia
      • World Literature from Taiwan
      • World Literature from Japan
      • World Literature from China
      • World Literature from Europe
    • Poetry
    • Young-Adult
    • Picture Books
    • Graphic Novels
    • Memoir
  • Series
    • World Literature from South Asia
    • World Literature from Southeast Asia
    • World Literature from Taiwan
    • World Literature from Japan
    • World Literature from China
    • World Literature from Europe
    • Hearing Others’ Voices
  • About
    • About Balestier Press
    • Publish with us
    • Contact
  • View:
  • 12
  • 24
  • All
  • 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…
    • Add to cart
  • 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…
    • Add to cart
  • 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…
    • Add to cart
  • 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…
    • Add to cart
  • 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…
    • Add to cart
  • 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

    • 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…
    • Add to cart
  • Black Dragonfly Quick View
    • Black Dragonfly Quick View
    • World Literature, World Literature from Europe, World Literature from Japan
    • Black Dragonfly

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

    • GBP 11.99
    • 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…
    • Add to cart
  • Lying Eyes Quick View
    • Lying Eyes Quick View
    • World Literature, World Literature from Southeast Asia
    • Lying Eyes

    • GBP 11.99
    • by A.K. Kulshreshth In World War II Singapore (1942-1945), many people went through unimaginable suffering. Siew Chin was forced to become a “comfort woman” in a Japanese military brothel. Her husband Tiong was taken away to be massacred. Ah Ding collaborated with the Japanese occupiers. And yet, as is always the case with the moral complexities of war, Ah Ding…
    • Add to cart
  • 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…
    • Add to cart
  • 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

    • GBP 12.99
    • 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…
    • Add to cart
  • Song of the Soil Quick View
    • Song of the Soil Quick View
    • World Literature, World Literature from South Asia
    • Song of the Soil

    • GBP 11.99
    • by Chuden Kabimo Translated from the Nepali by Ajit Baral Shortlisted for The JCB Prize for Literature 2022 On a day of earthquake and rain, a young man gets bad news. Ripden, his childhood friend, has been swept away by a landslide. He makes his way back to Malbung, the village of his birth, and the memories come rushing back:…
    • Add to cart
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4

Country

Book categories

Featured Books

  • Dinner for Six GBP 12.99
  • The Strength of Water
  • The Government Inspector for Two Actors GBP 10.99

Literatures of the World

Balestier Press

Balestier Press publishes the best and most original voices in Contemporary World Literature, Humanities and Social Sciences.

Balestier Academic publishes peer reviewed academic monographs, proceedings, protocols, contributed volumes, and educational materials in Humanities, Social Sciences and Natural Sciences.

London office

Balestier Press
Centurion House
Staines-upon-Thames
TW18 4AX
London, UK

Singapore office

Balestier Press
1010 Dover Road #01-800-V
Singapore 139658

  • Balestier Press
Copyright © 2023 by Balestier Press Europe Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Prices are inclusive of VAT / GST, where applicable.
×
×

Cart