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A Novel
by Sung J. Woo
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by Catherine Chung
Published Mar 2013
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by Jason Wallace
Published Dec 2011
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by Deborah Ellis
Published Sep 2011
Read ReviewsNo Safe Place is a novel of high adventure and heart-stopping suspense by a writer at the height of her powers.
by Lisa See
Published Feb 2010
Read ReviewsPearl and May are sisters, living carefree lives in Shanghai, the Paris of Asia. But when Japanese bombs fall on their beloved city, they set out on the journey of a lifetime, one that will take them through the Chinese countryside, in and out of the clutch of brutal soldiers, and across the Pacific to the shores of America.
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 Katherine Min
Published Feb 2008
Read ReviewsIsadora Myung Hee Sohn, known as Isa, worships her mother, an exceptional beauty. Isas father, a scientist and professor, and an orphan, is haunted by the war in which he served as a South Korean soldier and by a painful secret that he keeps from his wife. Still mourning the death of Isas younger brother her parents are traditional ...
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Published Sep 2004
Read ReviewsLahiri enriches the themes that made her collection, The Interpreter of Maladies, an international bestseller: the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the conflicts of assimilation and, most poignantly, the tangled ties between generations.
by Maeve Binchy
Published Mar 2002
Read ReviewsFrom New Year's Eve to New Year's Eve, readers will meet Tom Feather and Cathy Scarlet, their extended families, their many friends, and learn of the heartaches and triumphs, disappointments and joys, loves, losses, that can happen in time.
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