Asian Fiction | Fiction
Nov.05.2012
Hi-Dong Chai and Jana McBurney-Lin, the award-winning author of My Half of the Sky, turn their hands to a remarkable story of a family and country torn apart by outside forces. The time is 1942, the place is Japanese-occupied Seoul, Korea. Fifteen-year-old He-Seung is full of fire,...
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Aug.16.2012
A powerful new novel about an ordinary family facing extraordinary times at the start of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
China, 1957. Chairman Mao has declared a new openness in society: "Let a hundred flowers bloom; let a hundred schools of thought contend." Many intellectuals fear it is only a...
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Feb.01.2012
Survivors of the Cull, a Plague that wiped out people without the blood type O-neg, struggle in the floating Sargasso City jigsawed together with ships, submarines, barges and oil tankers off the coast of what was once known as California.
Separated by demarcations of turf, ethnicity and fear, it’...
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Jan.06.2012
The story takes place in December 1937 during the Rape of Nanking. A small group of girls is trapped in a Catholic school, looked after by an American priest and a deacon. A group of prostitutes takes refuge along with them, then soldiers of the defeated Nationalist army force their way...
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Nov.27.2011
Kazuo Nakamoto's life in inner-city Tokyo is one of tea and tofu, of American TV and rock 'n' roll. Kazuo is nine. It is the mid-1960s, just after the Japan Olympics, and Kazuo dreams of being a track star. He hangs out with his buddies, goes to school, and helps with household chores. But...
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Aug.02.2011
Alex Salim McKensie, a war baby of the 1971 Bangladesh War of Independence, is adopted by the McKensies, an American family that has lost their only son in Vietnam. Years later, Alex falls in love with Sangeeta Rai, but their happiness is threatened when the enigma of his birth casts a dark shadow...
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Jun.07.2011
From the darkest hour of American history emerges a mesmerizing tale of tender love, a life interrupted, and faith recovered. Arissa Illahi, a Muslim artist and writer, discovers in a single moment that no matter how carefully you map your life, it is life itself that chooses your destiny....
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Oct.05.2010
Mary and Ingrid are sisters who were born and brought up in China but now reside in the United States. Mary is the older of the two; seemingly a devoted wife, mother, and churchgoer. Yet she is tormented by adultery, a grudge toward her parents, and her despair at work. Her estranged sister Ingrid...
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Jun.26.2010
What happens when a woman who's realized all her dreams wakes up to a shocking truth? The son she was told was stillborn 30 years ago is alive and now fighting for his life. She is the only person who can help save him. But revealing her 30-year secret to her husband could ruin her marriage and...
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Dec.22.2009
Self-Realization memoir, told in simple narrative poetry.
Truth is stranger than fiction.
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