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  • A Shooting Star & Other Stories

    A trilingual edition in English, German and Indonesian

    by Jutta Wurm, Iksaka Banu, Tjandra Kerton ...
    Series Book 16 - BTW
    German title: Eine Sternschnuppe und andere ErzählungenIndonesian title: Bintang Jatuh dan cerita lainnyaHistory fascinates in the hands of Iksaka Banu. The stories in this collection featurewell-crafted characters acting at key moments in Indonesia’s colonial past.Indonesia’s history has frequently been told through Western eyes. Now, IksakaBanu reclaims the past and makes it come alive for today ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • El Filibusterismo

    by Jose Rizal ...
    Translated by Leon Ma. Guerrero ...
    Few novels have made a more shattering impact on their society than El Filibusterismo - and its predecessor, Noli Me Tangere of Jose Rizal. And surely no writer has paid a higher penalty for self-expression. Rizal was executed by firing squad mainly because of these two books. Filipinos, inspired by Rizal, made the first nationalist revolution in Asia in 1896, established its first democratic ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Early Korean Literature

    Selections and Introductions

    by David McCann ...
    Preeminent scholar and translator David R. McCann presents an anthology of his own translations of works ranging across the major genres and authors of Korean writing—stories, legends, poems, historical vignettes, and other works—and a set of critical essays on major themes.A brief history of traditional Korean literature orients the reader to the historical context of the writings, thus bringing ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Alphaville hotel

    Followed by 'A tale without a name'

    by Wiwat Lertwiwatwongsa ...
    Series series ThaiFiction
    A writer grappling with his characters– or is it the other way around? –in an impish homage to Jean-Luc Godardand Anna Karina.Followed by 'A tale without a name',a layered short story plugged intothe age of the internetand human incommunicability.With these two short fictions,Wiwat Lertwiwatwongsa, a noted film critic,takes pole position in cutting-edge Thai writing. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Record of Miraculous Events in Japan

    The Nihon ryoiki

    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    The Nihon ryoiki, a collection of setsuwa, or "anecdotal" tales, compiled by a monk in late-eighth- or early-ninth-century Japan, records the spread of Buddhist ideas in Japan and the ways in which Buddhism's principles were adapted to the conditions of Japanese society. Beginning in the time before Buddhism was introduced to Japan, the text captures the effects of the nation's initial contact ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Rethinking Chinese Popular Culture

    Cannibalizations of the Canon

    Edited by Carlos Rojas, Eileen Chow ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    Through analyses of a wide range of Chinese literary and visual texts from the beginning of the twentieth century through the contemporary period, the thirteen essays in this volume challenge the view that canonical and popular culture are self-evident and diametrically opposed categories, and instead argue that the two cultural sensibilities are inextricably bound up with one another.An ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Literature of Pre-Islamic Iran

    Companion Volume I

    Edited by Ronald E. Emmerick, Maria Macuch ...
    Persian literature is the jewel in the crown of Persian culture. It has profoundly influenced the literatures of Ottoman Turkey, Muslim India and Turkic Central Asia and been a source of inspiration for Goethe, Emerson, Matthew Arnold and Jorge Luis Borges among others. Yet Persian literature has never received the attention it truly deserves."A History of Persian Literature" answers this need and ... Read more

    $109.39 USD

  • Chinese Poems

    by The Arthur Waley Estate, Arthur Waley ...
    First published in 1946.Here in one volume is a collection of Arthur Waley's translations of Chinese poetry. The book includes some poems from The Book of Songs and 170 Chinese Poems, More Translations and The Temple. Some old translations have been revised and new notes and explanatory material added. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Los Angeles's Little Tokyo

    by Little Tokyo Historical Society ...
    Series series Images of America
    In 1884, a Japanese sailor named Hamanosuke Shigeta made his way to the eastern section of downtown Los Angeles and opened Little Tokyo�s first business, an American-style caf�. By the early 20th century, this neighborhood on the banks of the Los Angeles River had developed into a vibrant community serving the burgeoning Japanese American population of Southern California. When Japanese Americans ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reading The Tale of Genji

    Sources from the First Millennium

    Edited by Thomas Harper, Haruo Shirane ...
    The Tale of Genji, written one thousand years ago, is a masterpiece of Japanese literature, is often regarded as the best prose fiction in the language. Read, commented on, and reimagined by poets, scholars, dramatists, artists, and novelists, the tale has left a legacy as rich and reflective as the work itself.This sourcebook is the most comprehensive record of the reception of The Tale of Genji ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • A Classical Tibetan Reader

    Selections from Renowned Works with Custom

    by Yael Bentor ...
    A Classical Tibetan Reader answers a long-standing need for well chosen readings to accompany courses in classical Tibetan language. Professor Bentor has built her Tibetan reader out of time-tested selections from texts that she has worked with while teaching classical Tibetan over the past twenty years. She has assembled here a selection of Tibetan narratives, organized to introduce students of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Old Demons, New Deities

    Twenty-One Short Stories from Tibet

    Edited by Tenzin Dickie ...
    This is the first English-language anthology of contemporary Tibetan fiction available in the WestTenzin Dickie was a 2014-2015 ALTA Fellow of the American Literary Translators' AssociationThe collection introduces western readers to 16 of the most well-respected Tibetan writers today ... Read more

    $8.69 USD