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Anil's Ghost

Anil's Ghost


by Michael Ondaatje

  • LITERATURE
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 320 PAGES

Ondaatje's novel follows the exploits of a forensic anthropologist, born in Sri Lanka but educated in America, who returns to her homeland to help uncover the truth behind a series of organized murders. (SRL10, $15.95)

Audrey Hepburn's Neck, A Novel

Audrey Hepburn's Neck, A Novel


by Alan Brown

  • LITERATURE
  • 1997
  • PAPER
  • 304 PAGES

An exquisite short novel about contemporary Japan. This prize-winning work captures the eclectic, mixed-up society of contemporary Japan. (JPN14, $20.95)

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman


by Haruki Murakami

  • LITERATURE
  • 2007
  • PAPER
  • 384 PAGES

Murakami's revelatory collection of short fiction, set in Italy, Greece and his native Japan. (JPN252, $15.00)

Catfish and Mandala, A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam

Catfish and Mandala, A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam


by Andrew X. Pham

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2000
  • PAPER
  • 344 PAGES

Much more than the story of a road trip, this book combines the author's family history with his many and often-gritty adventures by bicycle through foreign lands including Mexico, Japan and, notably, Vietnam. (VNM50, $16.00)

Dancing With Strangers, Europeans And Australians At First Contact


by Inga Clendinnen

  • HISTORY
  • 2005
  • PAPER
  • 324 PAGES

A compassionate and well-researched account of early British contact with the Australian natives, focusing on the rapport between British governor Arthur Philip and a native named Bennelong. (AUS208, $26.99)

Dogside Story


by Patricia Grace

  • LITERATURE
  • 2002
  • PAPER
  • 304 PAGES

Grace writes with ease and style about a man struggling for custody of his daughter in a Maori community on New Zealand's east cape. (NZL98, $13.95)

Family Matters

Family Matters


by Rohinton Mistry

  • LITERATURE
  • 2003
  • PAPER
  • 444 PAGES

An aging professor comes to live with his daughter, her husband and their two children in a cramped Bombay apartment in Mistry's moving, and often comic, tale. (IDA214, $15.95)

The Fragile Edge, Diving and Other Adventures in the South Pacific

The Fragile Edge, Diving and Other Adventures in the South Pacific


by Julia Whitty

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 304 PAGES

Whitty illuminates coral reefs, their inhabitants and the pleasures of diving in this memoir of underwater adventures in Rangiroa, Tuvalu and Moorea. Winner of the 2008 Kiriyama Prize and John Burroughs Medal. (PAC173, $14.95)

From the Land of Green Ghosts, a Burmese Odyssey

From the Land of Green Ghosts, a Burmese Odyssey


by Pascal Khoo Thwe

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2003
  • PAPER
  • 304 PAGES

The young Burmese author, a member of a remote hill-tribe in the Shan hills, captures the traditions and challenges of the Padaung people in this astonishing memoir. (BMA29, $13.99)

The Girl Who Played Go


by Shan Sa | Adriana Hunter

  • LITERATURE
  • 2004
  • PAPER
  • 320 PAGES

In this accomplished novel set in a Manchurian city in the war-torn 1930s, two young people -- one of each side of the conflict -- fall in love. (CHN214, $15.95)

The Hummingbird's Daughter, A Novel

The Hummingbird's Daughter, A Novel


by Alberto Urrea

  • LITERATURE
  • 2006
  • PAPER

Urrea bases his award-winning novel on the life of Teresita, the Saint of Cabora, born on a ranch in 1878 on the Arizona-Mexico border (she's also his great aunt). (SWU220, $14.99)

Japan, A Reinterpretation

Japan, A Reinterpretation


by Patrick Smith

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 1998
  • PAPER
  • 400 PAGES

A thoughtful, stimulating look at the country since World War II, targeting the role of the U.S. in creating modern Japan. Highly recommended. (JPN16, $15.95)

Maps for Lost Lovers


by Nadeem Aslam

  • LITERATURE
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 400 PAGES

A well-wrought novel about a Pakistani family living near London and the cultural and personal conflicts of immigrant communities. (GBR567, $14.95)

Maximum City, Bombay Lost and Found

Maximum City, Bombay Lost and Found


by Suketu Mehta

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 2005
  • PAPER
  • 528 PAGES

The tale of the author who, after a 21-year sojourn in New York, returns to his native Bombay, "the biggest, fastest, richest city in India." (IDA252, $17.00)

Mister Pip

Mister Pip


by Lloyd Jones

  • LITERATURE
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 272 PAGES

Jones sets his poignant tale of children, teachers and the transcendent power of storytelling in the midst of the 1990s civil war in Bougainville that pitched the islanders against the government of Papua New Guinea. He spins magic with gunfire and Great Expectations. (PNG22, $15.00)

My Year of Meats


by Ruth L. Ozeki

  • LITERATURE
  • 1999
  • PAPER
  • 366 PAGES

A tale of two women: an American working for a Japanese TV show in the pocket of the beef lobby, and a depressed Japanese housewife who watches the show. It's a sharp satire of colliding cultures and the meat market that is also an engaging personal story. (jpn334, $16.00)

The Reindeer People, Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia

The Reindeer People, Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia


by Piers Vitebsky

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 496 PAGES

Vitebsky captures the hardships, challenges and routines of everyday life of the Eveny people on the taiga of northeastern Siberia. (SIB48, $26.95)

River Town, Two Years on the Yangtze

River Town, Two Years on the Yangtze


by Peter Hessler

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 432 PAGES

Hessler's compelling, personal story of life as a Peace Corps volunteer in Fuling, where foreigners are a curiosity, explores the culture, traditions and ideas of an isolated world. (CHN125, $14.99)

Three Cups of Tea, One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations . . . One School at a Time

Three Cups of Tea, One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations . . . One School at a Time


by Greg Mortenson | David Oliver Relin

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 2007
  • PAPER
  • 352 PAGES

The fascinating true story of American nurse Mortenson who attempted to scale K2 in 1993 and ended up sheltered in a remote Pakistani mountain village. In return, he set up the village's first school, a project which expanded into the 50-school Central Asia Institute (PKN20, $16.00)

Three-Legged Horse

Three-Legged Horse


by Cheng Ch'Ing-Wen

  • LITERATURE
  • 2000
  • PAPER
  • 240 PAGES

These twelve tales vividly evoke traditional and modern Taiwan. The first English translations of work by Cheng, well-known in Taiwan. (TWN05, $26.00)

 

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