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- Location(s): Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
This book focuses on Qui and Tam, the granddaughter, who is dying of leukemia, and the story of Mai and Minh, two children under the dubious “protection” of an opium-fiend named Loc. Iris picks up where her father left...
- Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2
As the Second World War rages, the Japanese Imperial Army enters Burma and the British rulers prepare to flee. But the human legacy of the British Empire will be left behind in the shape of sixty-two Anglo-Burmese children, born...
- Location(s): Indonesia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Turn of the 20th Century
As the world moves into the twentieth century, Minke, one of the few European-educated Javanese, optimistically starts a new life in a new town: Betawi. With his enrollment in medical school and the opportunity to meet new people, there...
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1920 to present
Mary is a difficult grandmother for Durga to love. She is sharp-tongued and ferocious, with more demons than there are lines on her palms. When Durga visits her in rural Malaysia, she only wants to endure Mary, and the...
House of Glass (Buru Quartet 4)
- Location(s): Indonesia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
With House Of Glass comes the final chapter of Pramoedya’s epic quartet, set in the Dutch East Indies at the turn of the century. A novel of heroism, passion, and betrayal, it provides a spectacular conclusion to a series...
- Location(s): Borneo
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
- Era(s): Various
Twenty-year-old Ratai is proud and strong for she is the eldest child of Nuing, the Iban warrior who went to the invisible world and returned alive, and the granddaughter of Bujang Maias, the great headhunter who was raised by...
- Location(s): Java, Malaysia (Malaya), Singapore, Sumatra
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 19th Century
Two audacious women; one remarkable man … When Raffles sets sail from the cold, damp confines of Georgian London to make his name and fortune in the tropics, he takes with him his new wife, Olivia, a raffish beauty...
- Location(s): Singapore
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern looking back
2003. Singapore. Friendless and fatherless, sixteen-year-old Szu lives in the shadow of her mother Amisa, once a beautiful actress and now a hack medium performing séances with her sister in a rusty house. When Szu meets the privileged, acid-tongued...
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 20th Century
An epic saga of twentieth-century Vietnam hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as “the War and Peace of our age” Joseph Sherman first visits Saigon, the capital of French colonial Cochin-China, in 1925 on a hunting expedition with his father, a US senator....
- Location(s): Singapore
- Genre(s): Fiction
An absorbing novel which follows the exploits of an expatriate American stuck in Singapore because he never really goes anywhere else, apart from the Bandung Club.Jack flowers trawls through the streets and underbelly of Singapore.
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