Shan San a remote Manchurian town in the 1930s, a sixteen-year-old girl is more concerned with intimations of her own womanhood than the escalating hostilities between her countrymen and their...

You-Jeong JeongThe good son, 25-year-old student Yu-jin, wakes one morning to find himself covered in blood, a dead body downstairs and his memory of the night before a blank. This...

XinranWhen Deng Xiaoping’s efforts to “open up” China took root in the late 1980s, Xinran recognized an invaluable opportunity. As an employee for the state radio system, she had long...

Nikolai Gogol Gogol's works constitute one of Russian literature's supreme achievements, yet the nature of their brilliant originality, comic genius, and complex workings is difficult to summarize precisely. The Government...

Shashi Tharoor Ved Vyas, India's oldest surviving politician from the days of Raj, reveals behind-the-scenes atrocities in India's struggle for independence February 26, 1993 by Arcade Publishing

Aleksandr I Solzhenitsyn Drawing on his own incarceration and exile, as well as on evidence from more than 200 fellow prisoners and Soviet archives, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn reveals the entire...

Aleksandr I Solzhenitsyn   The Gulag Archipelago, 1918 - 1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books I-II   Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his...

Tash Aw This is the story of Johnny Lim - textile merchant, petty crook, and inventor of the Amazing Toddy Machine - and his marriage to Snow Soong, the most...

Lian Hearn The epic conclusion to the bestselling Tales of the Otori-"one of the most thrilling new series of our time."*The Harsh Cry of the Heron is the rich and stirring...

Yeon Somin A heart warming and irresistible novel about the rejuvenating power of pottery, for fans of Before The Coffee Gets Cold and What You Are Looking For Is In The Library.She rubbed...

Author: Yoko Ogawa He is a brilliant maths professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury seventeen years ago, he has lived with only eighty minutes...

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...