Search Results for ‘Asia’, ‘Fiction’ - 14 matches found

Sea of Poppies

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008
“Sea of Poppies”, the latest novel from celebrated Indian author Amitav Ghosh (The Glass Palace, The Hungry Tide), is a historical sea epic, already receiving...

The Barefoot Book of Fairy Tales

Follow a journey to magical and memorable lands with this anthology of classic fairy tales from cultures around the world.
This marvellous collection includes twelve popular and lesser-known fairy tales...

The Kite Runner

Amir, an illiterate Afghan boy growing up in 1970’s Kabul, befriends his father’s servant’s son from the despised Hazara minority. Now a 40-year-old novelist living in California Amir narrates his childhood...

A Passage to India

Although younger generations may know David Lean’s 1984 film, E M Forster’s “A Passage to India” remains a masterly, at times compelling snapshot of an era which still has echoes of prejudice with today...

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

“Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman” is another collection of beautiful stories from the lyrically unconventional imagination of Haruki Murakami. Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, an ice man, as...

Sacred Games

Seven years in the making, “Sacred Games” is an epic of exceptional richness and power. Vikram Chandra’s novel draws the reader deep into the life of detective Sartaj Singh - and into the criminal underworld...

The Enchantress of Florence

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008
From one of the world’s most famous living authors, Salman Rushdie, comes “The Enchantress of Florence”, a tale of historical intrigue, love and power. Longlisted...

The Lost Dog

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008
“The Lost Dog” is the latest novel from one of Australia’s most promising young talents, Michelle de Kretser. Tom Loxley is holed up in a remote cottage in the...

Norwegian Wood

“Norwegian Wood” stands with “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle” as one of Muarakami’s best and most popular works. As usual, it deals with the world around us with a sense of melancholy, charm, loss- all...

Tales from Firozsha Baag

In “Tales from Firozsha Baag”, Rohinton Mistry brilliantly captures the crowded, throbbing life of India.
In the novel’s eleven intersecting stories, Mistry reveals the rich, complex patterns of life...

Kim

“Kim”, Rudyard Kipling’s epic rendition of the imperial experience in India, is arguably his greatest piece of long prose.
Kim, a boy growing into early manhood and the lama, an old ascetic priest - are...

The White Tiger

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008
Meet Balram Halwi, the “White Tiger”: servant, philosopher, entrepreneur, murderer - who, over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of an absurd...

The Wind Up Bird Chronicle

In his increasingly surreal canon of work, “The Wind-up Bird Chronicle” is probably his most popular and widely read text. It resonates with contemporary Japan, exploring responsibility for both the...

Memoirs of a Geisha

"Memoirs of a Geisha" is a seductive and evocative epic on an intimate scale, that tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl. Summoning up more than twenty years of Japan's most dramatic history...