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A girl walks through the slums of Kolkata holding an armful of books. She returns home smelling of smoke, and checks her most prized possession: a brand-new smartphone, purchased in...

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2020 For all fans of Hot Milk comes a searing debut novel about mothers and daughters, obsession and betrayal. In her youth, Tara was wild....

A New York Times Editor's Choice An intimate, stirring portrait of a country at war and a family's battle to survive. Set against the backdrop of the Viet Nam War,...

Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori Mind-blowing, dark and wild, the new novel from Sayaka Murata — author of bestseller Convenience Store Woman — asks: how far would you go just...

A spellbinding literary debut set in Malaysia exploring family relationships, love and warMary is a difficult grandmother for Durga to love. Sharp-tongued and ferocious, Durga hopes simply to endure her...

*A 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND NEW STATESMAN*An extraordinary reimagining of the New Testament from the points of view of the women who became the disciples...

A Sumatran Odyssey Translated by Jennifer LindsayRejection is an epic family drama by Ashadi Siregar set against the turbulent years following Indonesia's independence.The story follows Tondi who as a young...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEWINNER OF THE MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZEWINNER OF THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZETeoh Yun Ling was seventeen years old when she first heard about...

Saroja and Kumaresan are young and in love. After meeting in a small southern Indian town, where Kumaresan works at a soda bottling shop, they quickly marry before returning to...

Translated by Janet HongThis is not a murder story. It is the story of those left behind. Parasite meets The Good Son in this piercing psychological portrait of three women...

A pianist in Beijing must find a way to the life she really wants, in this atmospheric new novel from the critically acclaimed author of Braised Pork For three years,...

Translated by Darryl SterkA mesmerizing web of family secrets and countryside superstitions, the search for identity and clash of cultures, from the winner of the Taiwan Literature Award.Chen Tien-Hong, the...

An intricate blend of mystery and horror with a feminist take on the roles of womanhood, especially motherhood, in contemporary time An unnamed young woman and her companion strike up...

The House Next to the Factory shows a changing India over three decades through the lens of one family and the house that they live in.Life in the house is...

Creative writing professor Maneka Roy has not returned to India in years, and when she arrives in her home country to mourn the loss of her mother, she finds herself...

The epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, only to be consumed by it over the centuries — from the transcendent imagination of Booker Prize-winning,...

Translated by Darryl Sterk If the mermaid doesn't swim back to the sea, but instead goes ashore, she will learn to walk on two legs. Perhaps, she will even learn...

A major literary event — the eagerly anticipated publication of a long-lost novel from legendary writer and three-time Pulitzer Prize nominee John Oliver Killens, hailed as the founding father of...

From a rising literary star, an epic historical novel, set against the tense backdrop of the Long March and Mao’s rise to power, that tells a powerful and moving story...

Translated by Arthur Reiji MorrisA powerful novel about the LGBTQ rights movement and gay love in Japan and Taiwan, from the most important queer voice of East Asia's millennial generation.Cho...

Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award Winner of the Best First Book Commonwealth Writers’ Award for the Eurasia regionThe Blue Bedspread is a searingly honest story about the love...

Translated by An Seon Jae A death, a lie, a secret. For twenty-six summers he didn't have the courage to face the past. Lee Hanjo is an artist at the...

Translated from the Japanese by Sam Bett and David Boyd The acclaimed and bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs and Heavenreturns with a blistering, shocking and poetic story about a...

This is the age of vice, where pleasure and power are everything, and the family ties that bind can also kill New Delhi, 3 a.m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the...

Tales of upheaval and confusion, longing and love in the aftermath of the Kobe earthquake.For the characters in After the Quake, the Kobe earthquake is an echo from a past...

* A New York Times Notable Book ** One of the Observer's 10 best debut novelists of 2020 ** Longlisted for the Women’s Prize 2020 * We children are not...

The third novel in the international bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold, following four new customers in a cafe where customers can travel back in time. In northern Japan, overlooking...

The third novel from the Booker-shortlisted author exploring love, betrayal and morality in 1920s Penang It is 1921 and at Cassowary House in the Straits Settlements of Penang, Robert Hamlyn...

An explosive, genre-defying reinvention of the 'immigrant' novel from Amitava Kumar. Carrying a single suitcase, Kailash arrives in post-Reagan America from India to attend graduate school. As he begins to...

Translated by Arunava Sinha In Melbourne a one-time research student with interests in philosophy and psychology is diagnosed with her third episode of psychosis. As she is moved from her...

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics — irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Territory of Light is the...

The heart-rending story of survival and endurance in Japanese-occupied Singapore Singapore, 1942. As Japanese troops sweep down Malaysia and into Singapore, a village is ransacked, leaving only three survivors, one...

Surreal, hilarious, and shrewdly poignant — a novel about a Korean American woman living in Berlin whose obsession with a K-pop idol sends her to Seoul on a journey of...

Ann Tran is already at a crossroads when she gets the call that her beloved grandmother, Minh, has died. Ann has built a seemingly perfect life. She lives in a...

WINNER OF THE 2024 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION A searing, gripping novel about a young Tamil woman living through the Sri Lankan civil war Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a...

Translated by Alison Anderson Awarded the Prix des libraires by France’s booksellers, a universal story about music and restoring one’s faith in others amid the aftermath of tremendous loss. Tokyo,...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM STUDIO GHIBLI The beloved multi-million copy bestselling Japanese classic about finding one's place in the world 'In How Do You Live?, Copper, our hero,...

Moving, sexy, and archly funny, Gina Apostol's Philippine National Book Award-winning Bibliolepsy is a love letter to the written word and a brilliantly unorthodox look at the rebellion that brought...

Translated by Dias Novita WuriA dazzling novella from a rising star of Indonesian literature that explores what it means to be a woman — whoever you are, wherever you are,...

Translated by YZ Chin By one of Southeast Asia’s most exciting writers, The Age of Goodbyes is a wildly inventive account of family history, political turmoil, and the redemptive grace...

INNER OF THE 2021 AKUTAGAWA PRIZE A bestselling and award-winning Japanese phenomenon - about obsession, pop culture and fandom 'My oshi was on fire. Word was he'd punched a fan'...

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...

Translated by Deborah Smith and e. yaewon A powerful novel of the saving grace of language and human connection, from the celebrated author of The Vegetarian In a classroom in...

A brilliant young writer from India with a funny, moving debut that perfectly captures the perils of online culture Appa and Amma have driven home a shiny new Honda Civic...

Translated by Jeffrey Angles Winner of the Sakutaro Hagiwara Prize and the MurasakiShikibu Prize Introducing Hiromi Ito, an award-winning Japanese author who has been compared to Haruki Murakami and Yoko...

Meet Tony — the first Indian to set foot on American soil. Among the settlers, slaves, and indentured servants that make the treacherous journey across the Atlantic to the New...

Award-winning stories and tales about the rites of passage in our lives-love and loss, gladness and grief, departure and return-written in the realistic and fabulist modes A young boy and...

The highly anticipated English-language debut from a literary star — nine iridescent, beguiling, witty and wonderous stories of dispossession and longing. 'How do you know this is all real and...

Kitchen juxtaposes two tales about mothers, transsexuality, bereavement, kitchens, love and tragedy in contemporary Japan. It is a startlingly original first work by Japan's brightest young literary star and is...

1941, West Java. Love and revolution are in the air. And war is on its way. Shortly before the Japanese invade, the van Hoorn family throws their famous Sinterklaas party...