Laura Joh Rowland When beautiful, wealthy Yukiko and low-born artist Noriyoshi are found drowned together in a shinju, or ritual double suicide, everyone believes the culprit was forbidden love. Everyone...

Akira Yoshimura   Isaku is a nine-year-old boy living in a remote, desperately poor fishing village on the coast of Japan. His people catch barely enough fish to live on,...

James ClavellHere is the world-famous novel of Japan that is the earliest book in James Clavell’s masterly Asian saga. Set in the year 1600, it tells the story of a...

Jeanne Larsen SILK ROAD takes you into the golden age of China's multi-cultural Tang dynasty. Aided by ghosts, goddesses, dragons, and her own determination, the heroine becomes a courtesan, a...

Vikas Swarup Vicky Rai, the son of a high-profile Minister, has been shot dead by one of the guests at his own party. They are a glitzy bunch, but among...

Vikas Swarup Former tiffinboy Ram Mohammad Thomas has just got twelve questions correct on a TV quiz-show to win a cool one billion rupees. But he is brutally slung in...

Gao Xingjian In 1983, Chinese playwright, critic, fiction writer, and painter Gao Xingjian was diagnosed with lung cancer and faced imminent death.But six weeks later, a second examination revealed there...

Bette Bao Lord Spring Moon by Bette Bao Lord. Adult Content. From the front The epic national bestseller. "A Chinese "Gone with the Wind""...Publishers Weekly. January 1, 1981 by Avon...

Lao-Tzi This translation captures the terse and enigmatic beauty of the ancient original and resists the tendency toward interpretive paraphrase found in many other editions. Along with the complete translation,...

Tarun J. Tejpal Quick-paced and inventive, brimming with ideas and memorable characters, " The Alchemy of Desire" celebrates the chaotic spirit of India at a time of great change. It...

Jan-Philipp Sendker   A poignant and inspirational love story set in Burma, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats spans the decades between the 1950s and the present. When a successful New...

Avraham Schwartzbaum   Adopting a Chinese baby leads an American professor and his wife to the discovery of their own Jewish heritage. An absorbing, true story to read and re-read.