Fu Ping: A Novel (Weatherhead Books on Asia)
By: Wang Anyi
3.33
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Nainai has lived in Shanghai for many years, and the time has come to find a wife for her adopted g…
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1. Roadside Picnic
By: Theodore Sturgeon , Arkady Strugatsky , Boris Strugatsky , Antonina W. Bouis , None
4.14
Format: 145 pages, Paperback
Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger,… read more
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"Keep your head high,"-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
"Los halagos son el bálsamo de los complejos."-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
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"Щастие за всички даром и нека никой да не бъде пренебрегнат!"-Theodore Sturgeon, Roadside Picnic
2. Monkey: The Journey to the West
By: Wu Cheng'en , Arthur Waley , Hu Shih
1.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Probably the most popular book in the history of the Far East, this classic combination of picaresq… read more
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3. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
By: Muriel Spark
3.70
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
A teacher at a girl's school in Edinburgh during the 1930s comes into conflict with school authorit… read more
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"It's only possible to betray where loyalty is due"-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
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"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul."-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
4. The Islanders
By: Pascal Garnier , Emily Boyce
4.11
Format: 559 pages, Paperback
"Dark enough to sink the hook deep into fans of noir."--Publishers Weekly Just before Christmas in … read more
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5. Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls #1)
By: Lisa See
4.00
Format: 126 pages, Hardcover
Pearl and May are sisters, living carefree lives in Shanghai, the Paris of Asia. But when Japanese … read more
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6. The Quiet American
By: Graham Greene , Robert Stone
3.13
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Graham Greene's classic exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam "I never knew a man… read more
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7. Bartleby & Co.
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4.08
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In Bartleby Co., an enormously enjoyable novel, Enrique Vila-Matas tackles the theme of silence in … read more
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8. Now in November
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3.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
Brilliant, evocative, poetic, savage, this Pulitzer Prize-winning first novel (1934) written when J… read more
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9. Look at Me
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3.28
Format: 5 pages,
A lonely art historian absorbed in her research seizes the opportunity to share in the joys and ple… read more
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10. A Gate at the Stairs
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4.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A novel on the anxiety and disconnection of post-9/11 America, on the insidiousness of racism, the … read more
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11. The Invisibility Cloak (New York Review Books Classics)
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3.24
Format: 324 pages,
An NYRB Classics Original The hero of The Invisibility Cloak lives in contemporary Beijing--where e… read more
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3.46
Format: 379 pages, Hardcover
Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more
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"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos
13. The Hole
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3.49
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Asa’s husband is transferring jobs, and his new office is located near his family’s home in the cou… read more
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"It's just, families are strange things, aren't they? You have this couple: one man, one woman. A male and a female, if you will. They mate, and why? To leave children behind. And what are the childre…"-Hiroko Oyamada, The Hole
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14. The Last Children of Tokyo
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3.43
Format: 138 pages, Paperback
Yoshiro thinks he might never die. A hundred years old and counting, he is one of Japan's many 'old… read more
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"With children like this having children of their own, it was no wonder the world was full of children."-Yōko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo
"งานหลักของพวกสมาชิกสภาคือ การปรับเปลี่ยกฎหมาย กฎหมายนั้นเปลี่ยนตลอดเวลา จึงแน่นอนว่าถูกปรับเปลี่ยน . แต่ใครเปลี่ยนเพื่ออะไร เปลี่ยนอย่างไรนั้น ไม่มีการสื่อให้รู้เลย ประชาชนใช้ชีวิตจัดระเบียบตัวเองในสภาพมองไม่เห็นกฎหมาย …"-Yōko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo
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3.77
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3.51
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4.26
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"A successful dish, as my cooking school teachers always used to say, must hit all the targets of se, xiang, wei, xing – colour, fragrance, flavour and form. It should first delight the eyes with its …"-Fuchsia Dunlop, Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food
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3.80
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
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3.92
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21. Fu Ping: A Novel (Weatherhead Books on Asia)
By: Wang Anyi
3.33
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Nainai has lived in Shanghai for many years, and the time has come to find a wife for her adopted g… read more
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