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- Location(s): China, Hong Kong
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2012
Hong Kong, 2012. Dimitri Johnson learns that he is dying. Stunned by his doctor’s prognosis, he nevertheless makes his ritual annual pilgrimage to the candlelight vigil for the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre. But this year, he thinks,...
- Location(s): Hong Kong, South London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s/70s+1997
A powerful debut novel about family secrets and what it costs to belong, for fans of Brit Bennett and Clare Chambers. ‘An astounding debut … written with emotion and astuteness, this deserves to be on book prize lists’ PRIMA...
- Location(s): Beijing (Peking), China
- Genre(s): Biography, Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 20th Century
Ninth Building is a fascinating collection of vignettes drawn from the author’s experience growing up during the Cultural Revolution, first as a boy in Beijing and then as a teenager exiled to the countryside. Zou poetically captures a side...
- Location(s): China, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Turn 21st Century
Taut, panoramic and powerful; Paper Names is an unforgettable debut about the long shadows of our parents, the ripple effects of our decisions and the ways in which our love transcends difference. Outside a New York apartment building, an...
- Location(s): China, Qingdao, Shanghai
- Genre(s): Fiction, Coming of Age
- Era(s): 1985 / 2007
A darkly glittering debut that traces a mixed family’s troubled trajectory through developing China. Shanghai, 2007: feeling betrayed by her American mother’s engagement to their rich landlord Lu Fang, fourteen-year-old Alva begins plotting her escape. But the exclusive American...
- Location(s): Shanghai
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Later 1930s
On the eve of the Second World War, the foreign-controlled port of Shanghai was the rendezvous for the twentieth century’s most outlandish adventurers, all under the watchful eye of the illustrious Sir Victor Sassoon. Emily ‘Mickey’ Hahn arrived there...
- Location(s): Shanghai
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
- Era(s): Early 20th Century (Jazz Age)
Half vampire. Half fox-spirit. All trouble. Pawned by her mother to the King of Hell as a child, Lady Jing is half-vampire, half-hulijing fox-spirit and all sasshole. As the King’s ward, she has spent the past ninety years running...
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