A bit of earth
By: Suchen Christine Lim
3.80
Format: 423 pages, Paperback
Malaya. A land of unparalleled richness. For centuries, the peninsula has attracted fortune hunters…
Want to Read $ 13.99"Feelings were clouds across the sky. They would change and pass. It wasn't important how she felt."-Suchen Christine Lim, A bit of earth
"For what is life but a succession of change; of one thing after another; painful beginnings, fearful setting out into the unknown, leaving what we are for what we have not yet become. We sail forth boldly, keeping a steady keel and a keen eye on the horizon, to reach islands, land whose fragrance we sniff at at the edge of our dreams; and so we sail on, hoping that the next landfall will be our own bit of earth."-Suchen Christine Lim, A bit of earth
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1. Laurinda
By: Alice Pung
3.80
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Laurinda is an exclusive school for girls. At its hidden centre of power is The Cabinet, a triangle… read more
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"To be part of the Cabinet, I'd had to keep my true self apart. and there's only so much of yourself you can hide, Linh, before you start to fall apart."-Alice Pung, Laurinda
"I was crying out of frustration, frustration that I could not be left alone, that no girl at this school could possibly be allowed some space to breathe and sort out her own thoughts."-Alice Pung, Laurinda
"And here was the bitter paradox of adolescense: alone, I was most myself, most true. But the self that really mattered was the self that was visible, the self that could be shown to other people."-Alice Pung, Laurinda
"All teenagers are drama queens inside their minds, even the mousiest of us. We load and reload movies of ourselves in heroic postures and outlandish triumphs, movies that if they were ever to be play…"-Alice Pung, Laurinda
2. Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
By: Balli Kaur Jaswal
4.25
Format: 159 pages, Hardcover
A lively, sexy, and thought-provoking East-meets-West story about community, friendship, and women'… read more
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3. Evening Is the Whole Day
By: Preeta Samarasan
4.03
Format: 606 pages, Hardcover
Set in Malaysia, this spellbinding and already internationally acclaimed debut introduces us to the… read more
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4. 17A Keong Saik Road
By: None
4.28
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
Mummy, why do you always have to leave for 17A... 17A Keong Saik Road recounts Charmaine Leung's gr… read more
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5. The Ghost Bride
By: Yangsze Choo
3.81
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A startlingly original voice makes her literary debut with this wondrous coming-of-age story infuse… read more
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- fiction
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"If I had known how easy it is to lose your life, I would have treasured mine better"."-Yangsze Choo, The Ghost Bride
"The contrast between the realization of his neglect and the fondness I had for my father was painful"."-Yangsze Choo, The Ghost Bride
"I don't keep mistresses; it's far too much trouble. I'm offering to marry you, although I might regret it. And if you think the Lim family disapproved of your marriage, wait until you meet mine."-Yangsze Choo, The Ghost Bride
"The Chinese considered the moon to be yin, feminine and full of negative energy, as opposed to the sun that was yang and exemplified masculinity. I liked the moon, with its soft silver beams. It was …"-Yangsze Choo, The Ghost Bride
6. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
By: Roxane Gay
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image,… read more
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7. China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation
By: Xinran , Julia Lovell , Esther Tyldesley , Nicky Harman
4.34
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
This hugely important and ground-breaking book -- an unprecedented oral history -- gives voice to a… read more
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8. Women of the Silk
By: Gail Tsukiyama
3.88
Format: 96 pages,
Sent by her family to work in a silk factory just prior to World War II, young Pei grows to womanho… read more
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9. Prophet Song
By: Paul Lynch
4.10
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more
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"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
10. The Night Tiger
By: Yangsze Choo
3.86
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping historical novel about a dancehall girl and an orphan boy whose fates entangle over an o… read more
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- asia
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Tener buenas intenciones no es igual que hacer lo correcto."-Yangsze Choo, The Night Tiger
"One of the appalling yet convenient things about being family is that you can trade accusations at night, then pretend next morning that nothing has happened."-Yangsze Choo, The Night Tiger
11. The House of Doors
By: Tan Twan Eng
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redempti… read more
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- asia
- fiction
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"Money's the sixth sense. If you don't have it, you can't make … the most of the other five."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"I feel that when I travel I can change myself a little, and I return from a journey not quite the same self I was."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"That night, side by side, we drifted among the galaxies of sea-stars, while far, far above us the asterisks of light marked out the footnotes on the page of eternity."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"All of us will be forgotten eventually. Like a wave on the ocean, leaving no trace that it had once existed.' He shook his head. 'We will be remembered through our stories."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
12. Lessons
By: Ian McEwan
4.00
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, … read more
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- historical fiction
"Books are difficult to tidy. Hard to chuck out. They resist."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"Only the backward look, the well-researched history could tell peaks and troughs from portals."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"What must it be, to burst out of deep infant sleep into the shocking singular fact of existence."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"The years slid over old deaths like a heavy lid. Nearly everything that happens to you in life you forget. Should have kept a journal."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
13. Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
By: Hwang Bo-Reum
4.02
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
Yeongju is burned out. With her high-flying career, demanding marriage, and busy life in Seoul, sh… read more
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- fiction
"Why? Because we only get one shot in life, and we're living it now."-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
"A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day."-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
"A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day'."-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
"A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be a success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day."-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
14. Now You See Us
By: Balli Kaur Jaswal
3.74
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The story of three women who work in the homes of Singapore’s elite and band together to solve a mu… read more
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15. Guantánamo Diary: Restored Edition
By: Mohamedou Ould Slahi
4.10
Format: 410 pages, Paperback
An unprecedented international publishing event: the first and only diary written by a still-impris… read more
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"كان الإنجيل مفيدٌ جداً في فهم المجتمعات الغربيّة، ومع ذلك فإنّ الكثيرين منهم ينكرون تأثّرهم بالكتب الدينية المقدّسة."-Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Guantánamo Diary: Restored Edition
"So why was I so scared? Because crime is something relative; it's something the government defines and redefines whenever it pleases."-Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Guantánamo Diary: Restored Edition
"ЩғШ§ЩҶ Ш§Щ„ШҘЩҶШ¬ЩҠЩ„ Щ…ЩҒЩҠШҜЩҢ Ш¬ШҜШ§ЩӢ ЩҒЩҠ ЩҒЩҮЩ… Ш§Щ„Щ…Ш¬ШӘЩ…Ш№Ш§ШӘ Ш§Щ„ШәШұШЁЩҠЩ‘Ш©ШҢ ЩҲЩ…Ш№ Ш°Щ„Щғ ЩҒШҘЩҶЩ‘ Ш§Щ„ЩғШ«ЩҠШұЩҠЩҶ Щ…ЩҶЩҮЩ… ЩҠЩҶЩғШұЩҲЩҶ ШӘШЈШ«Щ‘ШұЩҮЩ… ШЁШ§Щ„ЩғШӘШЁ Ш§Щ„ШҜЩҠЩҶЩҠШ© Ш§…"-Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Guantánamo Diary: Restored Edition
"إنّ مشكلة الإرهاب بأكمله كانت نتيجةً للعدوان الإسرائيلي ضد المدنيين الفلسطينيين، ومساندة الولايات المتحدة العَلَنيّة للحكومة الإسرائيلية في عدوانها، وذلك عندما استولى الإسرائيليون على فلسطين بنيران المداف…"-Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Guantánamo Diary: Restored Edition
16. 912 Batu Road
By: Viji Krishnamoorthy
3.96
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
The Iyers' and the Tans tranquil lives are shattered with the Japanese invasion of Malaya, and an u… read more
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17. A bit of earth
By: Suchen Christine Lim
3.80
Format: 423 pages, Paperback
Malaya. A land of unparalleled richness. For centuries, the peninsula has attracted fortune hunters… read more
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- asia
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Feelings were clouds across the sky. They would change and pass. It wasn't important how she felt."-Suchen Christine Lim, A bit of earth
"For what is life but a succession of change; of one thing after another; painful beginnings, fearful setting out into the unknown, leaving what we are for what we have not yet become. We sail forth b…"-Suchen Christine Lim, A bit of earth
18. A Flutter in the Colony
By: Sandeep Ray
3.99
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
In 1956, the Senguptas travel from Calcutta to rural Malaya to start afresh. In their new hamlet of… read more
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