Dai Sijie   Having enchanted readers on two continents with Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie now produces a rapturous and uproarious collision of East and West, a...

Tony ParsonsInto the booming, gold-rush city of Shanghai fly Bill and Becca Holden and their small daughter Holly - a young family seeking their fortune far from their north London...

Su Tong  February 1, 2004 by Hyperion

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is a novelist of unequalled insight, grace and emotional power. My Nine Lives represents a new and fascinating strand in her outstanding output canon...

Pearl S BuckAutobiography of Pearl S Buck. A memoir of the life of the first female Nobel Laureate for Literature, who was also a world citizen and a major humanitarian,...

Ye ZhaoyanSet on the eve of the Rape of Nanjing - when Japanese troops invaded this historic capital city, massacred hundreds of thousands, and committed thousands of rapes - Nanjing...

Stanley WolpertJawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of India and the founder of a political dynasty realized by his daughter Indira Gandhi and her sons, was a statesman of immense...

Nicole Mones In this stunningly researched novel, Nicole Mones not only tells the forgotten story of black musicians in the Chinese jazz age, but also weaves in a startling true...

Gingetsu Itoh"The Essence of Ninjutsu." Written during the Ninja "boom" of the early 1900's, Gingetsu Itoh seeks to dispel the myth that Ninjutsu is an art comprised solely of magic...

Gingetsu Itoh"Ninjutsu and Magic" from 1909 is Gingetsu Itoh's first foray into Ninjutsu research. Originally serialized in the Asahi Newspaper in Japan, it was later published in book format. Long...

James Clavell The setting is Hong Kong, 1963. The action spans scarcely more than a week, but these are the days of high adventure: from kidnapping and murder to financial...

Kazuo IshiguroDescribed by the New York Times as ‘an original and remarkable genius’, Kazuo Ishiguro is the author of six novels, including Never Let Me Go and The Remains of...