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  • A Lonely Death & Other Stories

    A trilingual edition in English, German and Indonesian

    by Marjie Suanda, Julius Dallmeyer, Cok Sawitri ...
    Series Book 8 - BTW
    German title: Ein einsamer Tod und andere ErzählungenIndonesian title: Mati Sunyi dan cerita lainnyaCok Sawitri’sstories shed light on the lives of modern Balinese people and the variouschallenges they face. Readers are invited to examine the Balinese psyche,mainly their essential need for balance between traditional customs andmodern-day life. But external conflicts aren’t Sawitri’s only forte, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Red Bowl & Other Stories

    A trilingual edition in English, German and Indonesian

    by Marjie Suanda, Zen Hae, Joshua Ramon Enslin ...
    Series Book 25 - BTW
    German title: Die Rote Schüssel und andere ErzählungenIndonesian title: Mangkok Merah dan cerita lainnyaZen Hae’s stories focus on Betawi people –the original inhabitans of Jakarta. His characters, often presented in empathetic descriptions, are common people: scavengers, land brokers, traditional artists and the like; people whose lives and fates are constantly being tested in the face of massive ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • Vietnam and Other Alien Worlds

    by Joe Haldeman ...
    The Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of The Forever War presents writings ranging from our past in Southeast Asia to our future among the stars.Joe Haldeman burst onto the literary scene with the hugely popular novel The Forever War, but his career also took off on the strength of his short fiction. This brilliant collection brings together examples of his science fiction as well as his ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chinese Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Sabina Knight ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Perhaps nowhere else has literature been as conscious a collective endeavor as in China, and China's survival over three thousand years may owe more to its literary traditions than to its political history. This Very Short Introduction tells the story of Chinese literature from antiquity to the present, focusing on the key role literary culture played in supporting social and political concerns. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Lover Etc

    4 short stories

    by Win Lyovarin ...
    Series series ThaiFiction
    loverthe dollan old cloth and a tray of mackerelsthe last drop of inkAlongside Rart Eikkatheit's Three Worlds, four more samples of the work of the most imaginative and versatile Thai writer of experimental short fiction, twice winner of the SEA Write Award. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Sound of Water

    Haiku by Basho, Buson, Issa, and Other Poets

    Series series Shambhala Centaur Editions
    Over 200 of the best haiku poems from Japanese literature, translated by one of America’s premier poet-translators and now in one giftable volumeThe haiku is one of the most popular and widely recognized poetic forms in the world. In just three lines a great haiku presents a crystalline moment of image, emotion, and awareness. This illustrated collection includes haiku by the great masters from ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei

    Volume Two: The Rivals

    by David Tod Roy ...
    Series series Princeton Library of Asian Translations
    In this second of a planned five-volume series, David Roy provides a complete and annotated translation of the famous Chin P'ing Mei, an anonymous sixteenth-century Chinese novel that focuses on the domestic life of His-men Ch'ing, a corrupt, upwardly mobile merchant in a provincial town, who maintains a harem of six wives and concubines. This work, known primarily for its erotic realism, is also ... Read more

    $38.19 USD

  • Nagarjuna's Middle Way

    Mulamadhyamakakarika

    by Mark Siderits, Shoryu Katsura ...
    Series series Classics of Indian Buddhism
    Winner of the 2014 Khyenste Foundation Translation Prize.Nagarjuna's renowned twenty-seven-chapter Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way (Mulamadhyamakakarika) is the foundational text of the Madhyamaka school of Mahayana Buddhist philosophy. It is the definitive, touchstone presentation of the doctrine of emptiness. Professors Siderits and Katsura prepared this translation using the four surviving ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Ground Zero, Nagasaki

    Stories

    by Yuichi Seirai ...
    Translated by Paul Warham ...
    Set in contemporary Nagasaki, the six short stories in this collection draw a chilling portrait of the ongoing trauma of the detonation of the atomic bomb. Whether they experienced the destruction of the city directly or heard about it from survivors, the characters in these tales filter their pain and alienation through their Catholic faith, illuminating a side of Japanese culture little known in ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Drinking the Mountain Stream

    Songs of Tibet's Beloved Saint, Milarepa

    by Jetsun Milarepa ...
    Translated by Lama Kunga Rinpoche, Brian Cutillo ...
    Jetsun Milarepa, Tibet's renowned and beloved saint, is known for his penetrating insights, wry sense of humor, and ability to render any lesson into spontaneous song. His songs and poems exhibit the bold, inspirational leader as he guided followers along the Buddhist path.More than any other collection of his stories and songs, Drinking the Mountain Stream reveals Milarepa's humor and wisdom. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • River of Fire and Other Stories

    Translated by Ju-Chan Fulton, Bruce Fulton ...
    by Chŏnghŭi O ...
    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    O Chonghui crafts historically-rooted yet timeless tales imagining core human experiences from a female point of view. Since her debut in 1968, she has formed a powerful challenge to the patriarchal literary establishment in Korea, and her work has invited rich comparisons with the achievements of Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Munro, and Virginia Woolf.These nine stories range from O Chonghui's first ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • AlliterAsian

    Twenty Years of Ricepaper Magazine

    by Allan Cho, Julia Lin ...
    Allan Cho: Allan Cho works as an academic librarian at the University of British Columbia. His writing has appeared in Ricepaper, The Georgia Straight, and Diverse.Julia Lin: Julia Lin is the author of Miah, the first book-length work of Taiwanese-Canadian literary fiction ever published.Jim Wong-Chu: Jim Wong-Chu is a writer, historian, and editor. He is a founding member of the Asian Canadian ... Read more

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