Title/Author: Life Ceremony: Stories by Sayaka Murata Publisher: Grove Press Pages: 191 In a nutshell (Publisher): With Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata is back with her first collection of short stories ever to be translated into English. In Japan, Murata is particularly admired for her short stories, which are sometimes sweet, sometimes shocking, and always…
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Jee reviews ‘The Way Spring Arrives And Other Stories’ Edited and Collected by Yu Chen and Regina Kanyu Wang #tordotcom #eARC #NetGalley #shortstorycollection #bookreview #TheWaySpringArrives #translatedbook #ChineseSciFi #ChineseAuthors #NonBinaryAuthors #FemaleAuthors
Title/Author: The Way Spring Arrives And Other Stories by Yu Chen and Regina Kanyu Wang Publisher: Tordotcom Pages: 365 In a nutshell (Publisher): From an award-winning team of authors, editors, and translators comes a groundbreaking short story collection that explores the expanse of Chinese science fiction and fantasy. In The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories, you…
Comparing ‘Klara and the Sun’ and ‘Never Let Me Go’ by Kazuo Ishiguro #bookreview #UnpopularOpinion #speculativefiction #dystopian #scifi #humanity #cloning #AI #AF #friendship #loyalty #lovestory #KlaraAndTheSun #NeverLetMeGo #asianauthor
Question of the day, Klara or Kathy? For me, it was an easy choice. Klara. And yes, I believe I’m in the minority or possibly the only one in the entire bibliography world đ But I wasn’t so surprised because it took me three times to start and finish ‘Never Let Me Go’, while I…
Jee reviews ‘Lim Kit Siang: None But the Bold’ by Kee Thuan Chye @ktchye #bookreview #biography #nonfiction #politician #Malaysia #politics #LandmarkBookSingapore
Title/Author: Lim Kit Siang: None But The Bold by Kee Thuan Chye Pages: 400 Publisher: Landmark Books In a nutshell (Publisher): Lim Kit Siang, doyen of the Democratic Action Party (DAP), is a much misunderstood and littleknown man. To some, he is a scourge because his political opponents falsely proclaim him to be anti-Malay and…
Jee reviews ‘People From My Neighborhood’ by Hiromi Kawakami translated by Ted Goossen #PeopleFromMyNeighborhood @softskull #bookreview #ARC #HiromiKawakami #shortstories #shortstorycollection #magicalrealism #fables #myths #AsianAuthor #AsianLit #JapaneseLit #Japan #SoftSkullPress #JapaneseAuthor #translatedbook
Title/Author: People From My Neighborhood by Hiromi Kawakami Publisher: Soft Skull Press Pages: 176 In a nutshell (Publisher): From the author of the internationally bestselling Strange Weather in Tokyo, a collection of interlinking stories that masterfully blend the mundane and the mythicalâ”fairy tales in the best Brothers Grimm tradition: naĂŻf, magical, and frequently veering into the…
Jee reviews, ‘In the Weeds: Around the World and Behind the Scenes with Anthony Bourdain’ by Tom Vitale @HachetteBooks #AnthonyBordain #InTheWeeds #memoir #bookreview #TomVitale #PartsUnknown #NoReservations #NetGalley #eARC #top10booksof2021
Title/Author: In the Weeds: Around the World and Behind the Scenes with Anthony Bordain Publisher: Hachette Books Pages: 304 In a nutshell (Publisher): Anthony Bourdain’s long time director and producer takes readers behind the scenes to reveal the insanity of filming television in some of the most volatile places in the world and what it…
Looking for peace, calm and mindfulness? Jee reviews ‘Senbazuru: One Thousand Steps to Happiness, Fold by Fold’ by Michael James Wong #bookreview #selfhelp #meditation #mindfulness #origami #papercranes #senbazuru #onethousandcranes #1000cranes #booksbypoc #ARC #galley
Title/Author: Senbazuru: One Thousand Steps to Happiness, Fold by Fold by Michael James Wong Publisher: Chronicle Books Pages: 208 In a nutshell (Publisher): Fold your way to happiness through the inspiring philosophy of Senbazuruâthe tradition of folding one thousand paper cranesâwith a leading voice in the global mindfulness movement as your guide. In Japan, the…
Of haunted jungles, macabre mansions, possessed lands and bodies…Jee reviews ‘Build Your House Around My Body’ by Violet Kupersmith @oneworldnews @randomhouse #bookreview #fiction #asianlit #booksbypoc #bookreview #magicalrealism #asianfolklore #Vietnam #FrenchWar #buildyourhousearoundmybody
Title/Author: Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith Publisher: Random House Pages: 400 In a nutshell (Publisher): Two young women go missing decades apart. Both are fearless, both are lost. And both will have their revenge.1986: The teenage daughter of a wealthy Vietnamese family loses her way in an abandoned rubber plantation while…
Jee reviews âShe Who Became the Sunâ by Shelley Parker-Chan @torbooks #SheWhoBecameTheSun #bookreview #booksbypoc #eARC #NetGalley #asianlit #debutnovel #fantasy #histfic #fiction #historicalfantasy
Title/Author: She Who Became The Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan Publisher: Tor Books Pages: 404 In a nutshell (Publisher): To possess the Mandate of Heaven, the female monk Zhu will do anything âI refuse to be nothingâŚâ In a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. A boy, greatness. A…
Jee reviews Ghost Forest by Pik-Shuen Fung @OneWorldLit #GhostForest #bookreview #asianlit #booksbypoc #debutnovel #fiction #asianliterature #immigrantstory #astronautfamily #chineseculture
Title/Author: Ghost Forest by Pik-Shuen Fung Publisher: One World Pages: 202 In a nutshell (Publisher): This âpowerfulâ (BuzzFeed) debut about love, grief, and family welcomes you into its pages and invites you to linger, staying with you long after youâve closed its covers. âI am madly in love with this book, a kaleidoscopic wonder.ââT Kira Madden, author…
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