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How We Disappeared

How We Disappeared
  • Author(s): Jing-Jing Lee
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2 / 2000

Singapore, 1942. As Japanese troops sweep down Malaysia and into Singapore, a village is ransacked. Only three survivors remain, one of them a tiny child. In a neighbouring village, seventeen-year-old Wang Di is bundled into the back of a...

Hunters in the Dark

Hunters in the Dark
  • Author(s): Lawrence Osborne
  • Location(s): Thailand, Cambodia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Robert Grieve – pushing thirty and eager to side-step a life of quiet desperation as a small-town teacher – decides to go missing. As he crosses the border from Thailand to Cambodia, he tests the threshold of a new...

Hunting the Gugu

Hunting the Gugu
  • Author(s): Benedict Allen
  • Location(s): Sumatra
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

From the vast island of Sumatra, Benedict Allen brings back the strangest of travellers’ tales concerning black-maned ape-men as Theodore Hull – octogenarian survivor of Japanese labour camps – entices him onto the trail of the Gugu. A tangle...

Hush!

Hush!
  • Author(s): Minfong Ho
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Children, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

In an endearing lullaby, a mother asks a lizard, a monkey, and a water buffalo to be quiet and not disturb her sleeping baby.

I Little Slave: A Prison Memoir from Communist Laos

I Little Slave: A Prison Memoir from Communist Laos
  • Author(s): Bouncing Khamkeo
  • Location(s): Laos
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1981 - 1988

Raised in the hierarchical society of traditional Laos, Bounsang Khamkeo earned his doctorate in political science in France and returned home in 1973 to a country in political chaos in the wake of the Vietnam War. He worked for...

If I Die in a Combat Zone

If I Die in a Combat Zone
  • Author(s): Tim O'Brien
  • Location(s): Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1960s

A personal journey throught the Vietnam war, a war no-one really wanted, facing an enemy in alien and inhospitable terrain. This the “the” book of the Vietnam war.

If We Dream Too Long

If We Dream Too Long
  • Author(s): Goh Poh Seng
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2nd half 20th century

Widely regarded as the first Singapore novel, If We Dream Too Long explores the dilemmas and challenges faced by its hero, Kwang Meng, as he navigates the difficult transitional period between youthful aspirations and the external demands of society...

Ilustrado

Ilustrado
  • Author(s): Miguel Syjuco
  • Location(s): Manila, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It begins with a body. One anonymous winter day, the corpse of Crispin Salvador is pulled from the Hudson River. Gone is the controversial giant of Asian literature. And missing is the only manuscript of his final book, an...

Imitating Art

Imitating Art
  • Author(s): Ed Teja
  • Location(s): Cambodia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contrmporary

Stories are timeless and some travel too well for comfort A writer traveling in Asia settles down in a remote guesthouse in the off season. He needs a cheap and quiet place to write a crime story based on...

In Such Tremendous Heat

In Such Tremendous Heat
  • Author(s): Kehinde Fadipe
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Basking in Singapore’s non-stop sunshine, low tax rate and crocodile Birkins on every other arm, Dara, Amaka, and Lillian are living the dream – until their carefully constructed lives are upended by a handsome and mysterious new arrival… Dara,...

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