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…
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…
by Chuden Kabimo Translated from the Nepali by Ajit Baral On a day of earthquake and rain, a young man receives 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. The memories come rushing back—memories of growing up together, of harsh teachers at school…
