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- Location(s): East Timor (Timor-Leste)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1975
Winner of the E.M. Forster Award and shortlistedfor the Booker Prize, this brutal and beautifulnarration of the guerrilla war against theIndonesians in Timor, praised by Fretilin ForeignMinister and Nobel prize-winner Jose Ramos-Hortafor its ‘perfect authenticity’.
- Location(s): Cambodia, Phnom Penh
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
This is the story of people who pick over the rubbish in a waste dump, Stung Meanchey, just outside Phnom Penh – they make their homes from rubbish, they pick up their cooking implements and pots from the dump,...
- Location(s): Bali, California, Western Australia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Two sisters, one life-changing journey… There are some currents in the relationship between sisters that run so dark and so deep, it’s better for the people swimming on the surface never to know what’s beneath . . . Katie’s...
- Location(s): Asia, Burma (Myanmar), China, India, Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WWII
Before she was Julia Child, the famed “French Chef” who stole hearts, she was Julia McWilliams. Thirty years old and directionless, Julia took a job working for America’s first espionage agency, years before cooking or Paris entered the picture....
- Location(s): Java
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
What follows is the story of two British officers whose spirit the Japanese try to break. Yet out of all the violence and misery strange bonds are forged between prisoners – and their gaolers. In a battle for survival...
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s
Japanese-occupied Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara’s children are in terrible danger. Her eldest child Jujube, who works at a tea house frequented by drunk Japanese soldiers, becomes angrier by the day. Jasmin, the youngest, lives confined in a basement for...
- Location(s): Java
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 1800s
This Java-set saga of Dutch colonists in the late 1800s is a compelling piece of innovative historical fiction. At its heart is Rudolf Kerkhoven, who finds himself master of a plantation in Java’s Preanger region. Haasse effortlessly combines an...
The Ten Thousand Things (Indonesia)
- Location(s): Indonesia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 19th Century
The Ten Thousand Things is the story of Felicia, who returns with her baby son from Holland to the Spice Islands of Indonesia, to the house and garden that were her birthplace, over which her powerful grandmother still presides. There Felicia finds herself wedded to an uncanny...
- Location(s): Manila
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
The Tesseract is a 1998 English-language novel by Alex Garland. The story intertwines the lives of Manila gangsters, mothers and street children. The novel chronicles numerous characters in non-linear storylines and explores themes of love, adultery, fate, violence, power,...
- Location(s): Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2
Malaya, 1941. As the glamorous wife of a plantation owner, Connie Hadley appears to lead a pampered and comfortable life. But she is hiding devastating secrets that could destroy her marriage. Life is changed for ever on the day...
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