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“Pachinko follows one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family, whose unplanned pregnancy…
“Horses, Horses, in the End the Light Remains Pure is a multifaceted literary response to the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown that devastated northeast Japan on March 11…
“Ocean Vuong’s first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial ‘big’--and very human--subjects of romance, family, memory, grief, war, and melancholia. None of these…
“‘In a single year, my father left us twice. The first time, to end his marriage, and the second, when he took his own life. I was ten years old.’ Master storyteller Madeleine…
“Set in contemporary Nagasaki, the six short stories in this collection draw a chilling portrait of the ongoing trauma of the detonation of the atomic bomb. Whether they…
“This is the final book in the Plum Flower Trilogy. The two previous books, The Plum Flower Dance: Poems 1985 to 2005 and The Government of Nature, reveal similar…
“This book gives voice to the experiences of women of color–women of African, Native American, Latina, East Indian, Korean and Japanese descent–as students pursuing terminal…
“Uses a framework of ten common phrases in the Chinese vernacular to offer insight into China’s modern economic gaps, cultural transformations, and ubiquitous practices of…
“First generation Japanese-American Sato chronicles the tribulations her family endured in America through the Great Depression and WWII. Emigrating from Japan in 1911, Sato’s…
“Written in a series of short chapters, with each one becoming the definition of a word, a novel about a young Chinese woman caught in the cultural confusion of England explores…