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Under Water

Under Water
  • Author(s): Tara Menon
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Thailand
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Environmental
  • Era(s): Turn of 21st Century

A stunning and deeply moving literary debut of grief, loss and female friendship, set against the backdrop of two cataclysmic natural events. When five-year-old Marissa loses her mother, she is taken by her father to live on a small Thai island in the Andaman...

Venom

Venom
  • Author(s): Saneh Sangsuk, Mui Poopoksakul (translator)
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Novella
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The village of Praeknamdang, nestled in the Thai jungle, has fallen under the spell of Song Waad, the self-proclaimed medium of The Sacred Mother. Living in fear of his connection to the Patron goddess, the villagers offer up land...

Wandering Souls

Wandering Souls
  • Author(s): Cecile Pin
  • Location(s): England, South East Asia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

An extraordinary, original and heartbreaking debut novel about the bonds that connect people even when separated by seas or death itself, from a thrilling new voice. There are the goodbyes and then the fishing out of the bodies –...

Water Buffalo Days

Water Buffalo Days
  • Author(s): Quang Nhuong Huynh
  • Location(s): Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

For a young boy growing up in the hills of Central Vietnam, the days were full of adventure and excitement. Nhuong’s companion was Tank, the family water buffalo. Tank was extraordinary. He was fierce and fought off tigers and...

We Were Soldiers Once…and Young

We Were Soldiers Once…and Young
  • Author(s): Joseph L Galloway, Harold G Moore
  • Location(s): Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1965

We, the Survivors

We, the Survivors
  • Author(s): Tash Aw
  • Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A murderer’s confession – devastating, unblinking, poignant, unforgettable – which reveals a story of class, education and the inescapable workings of destiny. Ah Hock is an ordinary, uneducated man born in a Malaysian fishing village and now trying to...

Welcome Me to the Kingdom

Welcome Me to the Kingdom
  • Author(s): Mai Nardone
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

Bangkok, 1980. As the decades pass, figures fall in and out of the relentless city: Pea and Nam, who arrive in search of a better life; a Thai Elvis impersonator and his only daughter, Pinky; Benz, Tintin and Big,...

What We Become

What We Become
  • Author(s): Reece Willis
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Present Day

She was everything he could have wanted. From the moment she came into his life, she captured his heart and turned his world upside down. Now that she’s gone, he can’t live without her. Desperate for resolution, Ben follows...

When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge

When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge
  • Author(s): Chanrithy Him
  • Location(s): Cambodia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1975-1979

In the Cambodian proverb, “when broken glass floats” is the time when evil triumphs over good. That time began in 1975, when the Khmer Rouge took power in Cambodia and the Him family began their trek through the hell...

When Heaven and Earth Changed Places

When Heaven and Earth Changed Places
  • Author(s): Le Ly Hayslip
  • Location(s): Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

It is said that in war heaven and earth change places not once, but many times. When Heaven and Earth Changed Places is the haunting memoir of a girl on the verge of womanhood in a world turned upside...

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