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Eating Fire and Drinking Water

Eating Fire and Drinking Water
  • Author(s): Arlene J Chai
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

Clara Perez is a reporter. This story is about how one man’s act of kindness changes the lives of many; a woman who bleeds from the wounds of Christ; a man whose name is Pride; and a corrupt leader,...

El Filibusterismo

El Filibusterismo
  • Author(s): José Rizal
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 1900s

José Rizal was one of the leading champions of Filipino nationalism and independence. His masterpiece, Noli Me Tangere, is widely considered to be the foundational novel of the Philippines. In this riveting continuation, which picks up the story thirteen...

Elephant Run

Elephant Run
  • Author(s): Roland Smith
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Adventure
  • Era(s): 1941

In 1941, bombs drop from the night skies of London, demolishing the apartment Nick Freestone lives in with his mother. Deciding the situation in England is too unstable, Nick’s mother sends him to live with his father in Burma,...

Emma’s Tapestry

Emma’s Tapestry
  • Author(s): Isobel Blackthorn
  • Location(s): London, Colorado, Japan, Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1914-1920 and 1939

At the dawn of World War Two, German-born nurse Emma Taylor sits by the bedside of a Jewish heiress in London as she reminisces over her dear friend, Oscar Wilde. As the story of Wilde unravels, so does Emma’s...

Escaping the Tiger

Escaping the Tiger
  • Author(s): Laura Manivong
  • Location(s): Laos, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1982

Vonlai knows that soldiers who guard the Mekong River shoot at anything that moves, but in oppressive Communist Laos, there’s nothing left for him, his spirited sister, Dalah, and his desperate parents. Their only hope is a refugee camp...

Even Thai Girls Cry

Even Thai Girls Cry
  • Author(s): J F Gump
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Tippawan Bongkot is a young Thai woman on the run. Life as she knew it, ended the night she caught her fiance’ with his lover. Her world collapsed the day she lost her job. Desperate to find work, Tippawan...

Evening Is the Whole Day

Evening Is the Whole Day
  • Author(s): Preeta Samarasan
  • Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

‘A magical, exuberant tragic-comic vision of post-colonial Malaysia reminiscent of Rushdie and Roy. In prose of acrobatic grace, Samarasan conjures a vibrant portrait, by turns intimate and sweeping, of characters and a country coming of age. The debut of...

Eye of the Tempest

Eye of the Tempest
  • Author(s): Lloyd Oppel
  • Location(s): Laos
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Lloyd D. Oppel. Samuel A. Mattix. Twenty years old. Neophyte missionaries to Laos, the Land of a Million Elephants. The Vietnam War has slopped over into Laos and is taking a horrific toll. Lloyd and Sam are taken prisoners...

Fairy Tale Fail

Fairy Tale Fail
  • Author(s): Mina V Esguerra
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Of all the twenty-something women who are hopeless romantics, Ellie Manuel is more “hopeless” than “romantic.” Even after her Prince Charming broke up with her, she just won’t give up … because fairy tale heroines don’t live “happily ever...

Falling for Saigon

Falling for Saigon
  • Author(s): Connie Stokes
  • Location(s): Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A series of love letters (short essays) to Ho Chi Minh City — still known as Saigon to locals. A long-term resident of the city, the author knows the city well and captures what it feels like to live...

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