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Short Stories
by Rattawut Lapcharoensap
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by Ru Freeman
Published Jun 2022
Read ReviewsIn this collection of rich and textured stories about crossing borders, both real and imagined, Sleeping Alone asks one of the fundamental questions of our times: What is the toll of feeling foreign in one's land, to others, or even to oneself?
by Daniyal Mueenuddin
Published Feb 2010
Read ReviewsA major literary debut that explores class, culture, power, and desire among the ruling and servant classes of Pakistan.
by Paul Theroux
Published Sep 2008
Read ReviewsA master of the travel narrative weaves three intertwined novellas of Westerners transformed by their sojourns in India.
by Cate Kennedy
Published Feb 2008
Read ReviewsDevastating, evocative, and richly comic, Dark Roots deftly unveils the traumas that incite us to desperate measures and the coincidences that drive our lives. This arresting collection introduces a new master of the short story.
by John Burdett
Published Jul 2006
Read ReviewsFrom the author of Bangkok 8, a head-spinning new novel that puts us back in the company of the inimitable Royal Thai Police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep.
by Tom Bissell
Published Jan 2006
Read ReviewsSometimes hilarious, sometimes tragic, but always eerily affecting, these stories show us deeply foreign lands and peoples through our own eyes.
by Tracy Dahlby
Published Dec 2005
Read ReviewsCharts a fascinating course through the sprawling land of Indonesia, where the home-bred Jemaah Islamiyah, Asia's answer to Al Qaeda, pursues its deadly ambition to create a Southeast Asia Islamic super-state.
by Andrew Marshall
Published Jul 2003
Read ReviewsAn offbeat and thrilling journey through a lost colonial heritage--and a powerful expose of Burma's modern tragedy.
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