Asia

21 Objects from a Continent DividedThe emotion and trauma of the Partition are buried deep, but Aanchal Malhotra has found a way to recover them. Through the possessions saved by...

The Life and Times of a Chinese MillennialKaroline Kan was born in 1989, the year of the Tiananmen Square massacre: her generation has always been caught between China's authoritarian politics...

An unforgettable portrait of the tectonic shifts happening in rural China. After a decade away from her ancestral family village, during which she became a writer and literary scholar in...

On 3 June 1947, as British India descended into chaos, its division into two states was announced. For months the violence and civil unrest escalated. With millions of others, Marina...

A photograph passed down through generations inspires this beautifully written, compelling memoir of one Singapore family and the secrets that defined their storyA cherished family photograph, taken in Hong Kong,...

An instant bestseller in Korea and the follow up to the international bestseller, Please Look After Mother; centering on a woman's efforts to reconnect with her aging father, uncovering long-held...

This is not a book about divorce. It’s not a book about God, either. You might think it is a book about goodness and what it means to be a...

Michael Ondaatje's remarkable masterpiece of a family memoir, reissued to mark 40 years since its first publication'During certain hours, at certain years in our lives, we see ourselves as remnants...

Winner of the 2022 Michael Gifkins Prize, Backwaters is a tender and exquisitely written debut novel examining identity, race and complex family history. Laura is tired of being asked where...