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by Ma Jian
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by Jan-Philipp Sendker
Published Feb 2016
Read ReviewsThe first in a suspenseful new trilogy by the internationally bestselling author of The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, this gripping story follows a retired expat journalist in contemporary China who tries to crack a murder case as he battles his own personal demons.
by Ha Jin
Published Jul 2015
Read ReviewsFrom the award-winning author of Waiting and War Trash: a riveting tale of espionage and conflicted loyalties that spans half a century in the entwined histories of two countriesChina and the United Statesand two families.
by Ed Lin
Published Jun 2015
Read ReviewsJing-nan is shocked to the core when he learns his ex-girlfriend from high school has been murdered. But the facts don't add up...
by Mo Yan
Published Sep 2014
Read ReviewsIn this novel by the 2012 Nobel Laureate in Literature, a benign old monk listens to a prospective novice's tale of depravity, violence, and carnivorous excess while a nice little family drama - in which nearly everyone dies - unfurls.
by Kenzaburo Oe
Published Feb 2011
Read ReviewsThe Changeling, the latest from Kenzaburo Oe, is an ambitious, sweeping novel about friendships, artistic ambitions, and the distances well travel to preserve both.
by Barbara Demick
Published Sep 2010
Read ReviewsA remarkable view into North Korea, as seen through the lives of six ordinary citizens
Censoring an Iranian Love Story
by Shahriar Mandanipour
Published Jun 2010
Read ReviewsFrom one of Irans most acclaimed and controversial contemporary writers, his first novel to appear in Englisha dazzlingly inventive work of fiction that opens a revelatory window onto what its like to live, to love, and to be an artist in todays Iran.
by Moying Li
Published Mar 2010
Read ReviewsThis inspiring memoir following the Author from age twelve to twenty-two, illuminating a complex, dark time in Chinas history as it tells the compelling story of one girls difficult but determined coming-of-age during the Cultural Revolution.
by Yu Hua
Published Jan 2010
Read ReviewsA bestseller in China, recently short-listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize, and a winner of Frances Prix Courrier International, Brothers is an epic and wildly unhinged black comedy of modern Chinese society running amok.
by Diane Wei Liang
Published Jun 2009
Read ReviewsBeijing University, 1986. The Communists were in power, but the Harvard of China was a hotbed of intellectual and cultural activity, with political debates and "English Corners" where students eagerly practiced the language among themselves. It was there that Wei met Dong Yi, beside the Lake with No Name.
by Indra Sinha
Published Mar 2009
Read ReviewsProfane, piercingly honest, and scathingly funny, Animal's People is the stunning tale of an unforgettable character: Animal, a young man whose back was twisted beyond repair in an industrial accident. It is a dark world, shot through with flashes of joy and lunacy.
by Ha Jin
Published Jan 2009
Read ReviewsA moving, realistic, but always hopeful narrative novel of the Wu family - father Nan, mother Pingping, and son Taotao - as they fully sever their ties with China in the aftermath of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre and begin a new, free life in the United States.
by Jung Chang, Jon Halliday
Published Nov 2006
Read ReviewsThis is an entirely fresh look at Mao in both content and approach. It will astonish historians and the general reader alike.
by Rohinton Mistry
Published Nov 2001
Read Reviews"Astonishing. . . . A rich and varied spectacle, full of wisdom and laughter and the touches of the unexpectedly familiar through which literature illuminates life." - The Wall Street Journal.
by Gao Xingjian
Published Nov 2001
Read ReviewsA man's search for meaning -- in life, in the journey -- turns up the possibility that there may be no meaning. The elusive Lingshan (Soul Mountain) becomes the object of his quest. A novel of immense wisdom and profound beauty.
by Arundhati Roy
Published May 1998
Read ReviewsTakes on the Big Themes - Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite Joy. Here is a writer who dares to break the rules.
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