Category: Literature & Art

Sweet Offerings – Chan Ling Yap Sweet Offerings is ostensibly the story of a family but actually provides a good window to a Malaysia in the throes of major change […]

  Our Happy Time is a book that in its native Korea had a massive impact on people’s attitude towards the death penalty – not surprising when one reads this […]

Dumb Luck — Vũ Trong Phung Dumb Luck by Vũ Trong Phung is set in the Vietnam of 1930s, a country under French colonization and almost mindlessly obsessed with modernization. […]

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  The Nobel laureate is back and does not disappoint with The Changeling, an almost autobiographical roman à clef. The story is about two friends Kogito Choko, a prominent Japanese […]

  An intimate and ultimately heartrending look at the Bangladesh war of 1971, A Golden Age is the story of Rehana, a young widow. Due to her situation and her […]