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BELGIUM

A Worldly Art

Mariet Westermann

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PROVENCE & THE COTE D'AZUR

A Pig in Provence: Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of France

Georgeanne Brennan

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OUR FAVORITES

Arctic Dreams

Barry Lopez

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PENGUIN CLASSICS

The Log from the Sea of Cortez

John Steinbeck

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Contemporary Chinese Literature

READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE

Translated by Howard Goldblatt

The Moon Opera

The Moon Opera

by Bi Feiyu | Howard Goldblatt

  • LITERATURE
  • 2009
  • HARD COVER
  • 117 PAGES

Set against the backstage drama, intrigue and jealousy at the Peking opera, this debut novel takes a piercing look at the world of Chinese opera and its female stars. (CHN637, $18.00)

Change

by Mo Yan | Howard Goldblatt

  • LITERATURE
  • 2010
  • HARD COVER
  • 117 PAGES

Mo Yan traces personal, political and social changes in his country over the past few decades in a novella disguised as autobiography -- or vice-versa. (CHN645, $15.00)

Red Sorghum

Red Sorghum

by Yan Mo | Howard Goldblatt

  • LITERATURE
  • 1994
  • PAPER
  • 359 PAGES

A novel of family, myth, and memory set during the fratricidal barbarity of 1930s China. (CHN633, $17.00)

Three Sisters

Three Sisters

by Feiyu Bi | Howard Goldblatt

  • LITERATURE
  • 2010
  • HARD COVER
  • 282 PAGES

From small-town treachery to the slogans of the Cultural Revolution and harried 1980s Beijing, Bi tracks the lives of three sisters as they come of age in contemporary China. Winner of the 2010 Man Asia Literary Prize. (CHN632, $24.00)

Rickshaw Boy

Rickshaw Boy

by She Lao

  • LITERATURE
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 300 PAGES

Captured by renegade soldiers, seduced by his boss's ugly daughter and robbed by an unscrupulous detective, poor Xiangzi is subjected to all sorts of humiliation in this tale of an honest country boy in rough-and-tumble Beijing. (CHN631, $14.99)

Wolf Totem

Wolf Totem

by Jiang Rong

  • LITERATURE
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 544 PAGES

Defiant, unyielding, feared, hunted and revered, the great Mongolian wolf is the heart and center of Jiang Rong's epic tale of a young man from Beijing and his surprising encounters on the Mongolian steppe. A stirring epic, allegory and elegy for a vanished way of life, the novel won the first Man Asia Prize. (CHN471, $15.00)

Red Poppies

Red Poppies

by Alai | Howard Goldblatt | Sylvia Li-Chun Lin

  • LITERATURE
  • 2003
  • PAPER
  • 433 PAGES

This family saga unfolds in the 1930s among the warlords of eastern Tibet. (TBT61, $24.95)

 
Daughter of the River, An Autobiography

Daughter of the River, An Autobiography


by Hong Ying

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2000
  • PAPER
  • 288 PAGES

Ying traces the arc of her life from struggles during the Great Famine through Tiananmen Square in this inspiring tale of coming of age in Chongqing on the banks of the Yangtze. (CHN240, $14.00)

Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused, Fiction from Today's China

Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused, Fiction from Today's China


by Howard Goldblatt

  • LITERATURE
  • 1996
  • PAPER
  • 322 PAGES

This collection of 20 stories by young Chinese writers showcases a variety of styles, from brutal realism to mystery to experimental prose, that have emerged amid cultural and political change. (CHN638, $14.00)

The Ancient Ship


by Zhang Wei | Howard Goldblatt

  • LITERATURE
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 424 PAGES

Spanning four decades following the creation of the People's Republic in 1949, Wei's award-winning first novel follows generations of the Sui, Zhao, and Li families living in a fictional northern town. (CHN644, $14.99)

The Boat to Redemption

The Boat to Redemption


by Su Tong | Howard Goldblatt

  • LITERATURE
  • 2011
  • HARD COVER
  • 480 PAGES

In this deft picaresque by the author of Raise the Red Lantern., Su Tong follows the adventures of lovesick Secretary Ku, banished from the Party in after it has been officially proved he does not have a fish-shaped birthmark on his bottom and is therefore not the son of a revolutionary martyr. (CHN639, $26.95)

The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Literature


by Jo Lau | Howard Goldblatt

  • ANTHOLOGY
  • 2007
  • PAPER
  • 737 PAGES

The first comprehensive anthology of modern Chinese literature, this tome, with many newly commissioned translations, introduces important authors and literary trends of modern China. (CHN524, $37.50)

Turbulence, A Novel

Turbulence, A Novel


by Jia Pingwa | Howard Goldblatt

  • LITERATURE
  • 2003
  • PAPER
  • 464 PAGES

In this dazzling, earthy novel, Pingwa weaves a tale of two peasants -- an idealistic reporter and the women he loves -- struggling against corruption, guilt and cultural constraints in rural post-Mao China. (CHN640, $14.50)

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