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The Solemn Lantern Maker

The Solemn Lantern Maker
  • Author(s): Merlinda Bobis
  • Location(s): Manila
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

From the award-winning author of Banana Heart Summer–“ wonderful debut… resembles Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street and is destined to be a hit among book club members”*–comes a wondrous tale of hope, secrets, and family devotion. It’s...

The Song of Kieu

The Song of Kieu
  • Author(s): Nguyen Du
  • Location(s): Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Fiction

Ever since it exploded into Vietnam’s cultural life two centuries ago, The Song of Kieu has been one of that nation’s most beloved and defining central myths. It recounts the tragic fate of the beautiful singer and poet Kieu,...

The Song of Silver Frond

The Song of Silver Frond
  • Author(s): Catherine Lim
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s / 1950s

One morning in Singapore more than 50 years ago, a wealthy, respected, handsome Chinese patriarch, head of a large household of three wives and many children and grandchildren, takes a walk by a cemetery. There, a young village egg-seller, Silver...

The sound of the buffalo bells: Stories from Laos

The sound of the buffalo bells: Stories from Laos
  • Author(s): Martina Sylvia Khamphasith
  • Location(s): Laos
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Amongst temples and banks, rice fields and jungles the reader meets forest-eaters and world-travelling buffaloes, a frog who wants to swallow the moon, a man who sells luck and another who sells air, and a young boy who wants...

The Stone Goddess

The Stone Goddess
  • Author(s): Minfong Ho
  • Location(s): Cambodia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Twelve-year-old Nakri’s beloved home in Cambodia is shattered when the nation’s capital is overrun by government rebels. Her family is forced to flee, and she and her siblings end up in a children’s labor camp, separated from everything they’ve...

The Stone of Heaven: Unearthing the Secret History of Imperial Green Jade

The Stone of Heaven: Unearthing the Secret History of Imperial Green Jade
  • Author(s): Adrian Levy, Cathy Scott-Clark
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A riveting, entertaining, and richly detailed nonfiction narrative in the spirit of The Orchid Thief, Longitude and Nathaniel’s Nutmeg, this is the first book ever written about Imperial Green Jade — the rare and beautiful stone more precious than...

The Straits Quartet

The Straits Quartet
  • Author(s): Dawn Farnham
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th Century

Drawing on real-life historical personalities and actual places from 19th-century Singapore, author Dawn Farnham brings to life the heady atmosphere of Old Singapore where piracy, crime, triads and tigers are commonplace. This intense and passionate 4-volume romance follows the...

The Suspect

The Suspect
  • Author(s): Fiona Barton
  • Location(s): Thailand, Hampshire
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When two eighteen-year-old girls go missing in Thailand, their families are thrust into the international spotlight: desperate, bereft, and frantic with worry. What were the girls up to before they disappeared? Journalist Kate Waters always does everything she can...

The Tapestries

The Tapestries
  • Author(s): Kien Nguyen
  • Location(s): Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

In THE TAPESTRIES, based loosely on the life of the author’s grandfather, who, in the early 1900s, was a professional embroiderer in the court of the last king of Vietnam-Kien Nguyen has reimagined his grandfather’s amazing story to weave...

The Tea Planter’s Club

The Tea Planter’s Club
  • Author(s): Ann Bennett
  • Location(s): India, Burma (Myanmar)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

From award-winning author Ann Bennett, comes a heart-breaking story of love and loss set in World War 2 Burma. In 1980, Edith Mayhew, proprietor of the Tea Planter’s Club in Calcutta, is preparing to sell up after years of...

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