Amy Tan   The Hundred Secret Senses is an exultant novel about China and America, love and loyalty, the identities we invent and the true selves we discover along the...

Susan Barker New York Times Notable Book of 2015Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of 2015Finalist for the 2015 Kirkus Prize for FictionWinner of a Jerwood Fiction Uncovered PrizeHailed by The...

Kiran Desai In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas lives an embittered judge who wants only to retire in peace, when his orphaned...

Wayson Choy Chinatown, Vancouver, in the late 1930s and '40s provides the setting for this poignant first novel, told through the vivid and intense reminiscences of the three younger children...

Translated and Edited by Anthony C Yu Anthony C. Yu’s translation of The Journey to the West ,initially published in 1983, introduced English-speaking audiences to the classic Chinese novel in...

Amy TanFour mothers, four daughters, four families, whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's telling the stories. In 1949, four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco,...

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Amy Tan   Pearl Louie Brandt has a terrible secret which she tries desperately to keep from her mother, Winnie Louie. And Winnie has long kept her own secrets -...

Sheldon Pollock In this work of impressive scholarship, Sheldon Pollock explores the remarkable rise and fall of Sanskrit, India's ancient language, as a vehicle of poetry and polity. He traces...

Edward Behr A Candid Biography of One of Twentieth-century China's Most Elusive Figures January 1, 1987 by Futura

Anchee Min “Admirers of Empress Orchid will be interested in this sequel. Others may find the introduction to relatively modern Chinese history a revelation” ( Rocky Mountain News ). During...

Edna Fernandes Discover the hidden Jewish history of southwestern India.Two thousand years ago, trade routes and the fall of Jerusalem took Jewish settlers seeking sanctuary across Europe and Asia. One...