Fiction - Asian Reads
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Sun and Steel
PaperbackOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /In this fascinating document, one of Japan's best known-and controversial-writers created what might be termed a new literary form. It is new becau...
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Fyodor Dostoevsky-The Gathering Storm (1846-1847): A Life in Letters, Memoirs, and Criticism
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /This second book in a three-volume work on the young Fyodor Dostoevsky is a diary-portrait of his early years drawn from letters, memoirs, and cr...
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The Sarashina nikki
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Sugawara no Takasue no Musume (1008-59), a lady-in-waiting to Princess Sukeko, is a typical exponent of Heian court culture-her sharp awareness of ...
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The Izumi Shikibu nikki
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Izumi Shikibu (978- ), author, femme fatale, and prominent member of the Heian court, was first and foremost a poet--the greatest of her time, perh...
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Beloved Delhi: A Mughal City and her Greatest Poets
PaperbackOriginal price $26.99Original price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /'A riveting resurrection of the city of poets, the city of history, Saif Mahmood's learned and evocative book takes us to the heart of Delhi's roma...
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Lahore ka jo zikr kiya: (Memoirs)
PaperbackOriginal price $28.98Original price $28.98 - Original price $28.98Original price $28.98Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"Lahore Ka Jo Zikr Kiya" is a blend of personal reminiscences and facts of the period between 1932 and 1947 - an era of momentous historical intere...
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Sun and Steel
HardcoverOriginal price $39.99Original price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /In this fascinating document, one of Japan's best known-and controversial-writers created what might be termed a new literary form. It is new becau...
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A Beginner's Guide to Japanese Haiku: Major Works by Japan's Best-Loved Poets - From Basho and Issa to Ryokan and Santoka, with Works by Six Women Poe
HardcoverOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /An old pond;a frog jumps in: the sound of water -- Basho This comprehensive introduction to Japan's best-loved haiku poets is the perfect book for...
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Gossamer Years: Love, Passion and Marriage in Old Japan - The Intimate Diary of a Female Courtier
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /"A self-portrait devastating in its honesty...written passionately and without a thought to how readers might judge her actions."--Donald Keene Gos...
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Yone Noguchi: The Stream of Fate Volume One The Western Sea
HardcoverOriginal price $48.95 - Original price $48.95Original price $48.95$54.99$54.99 - $54.99Current price $54.99| /Yone Noguchi: The Stream of Fate is the first full-length biography of the pioneering international Japanese poet Yone Noguchi (1875-1947). Volume ...
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Gabo Y Mercedes: Una Despedida / A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes
HardcoverOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Finalista del 2021 National Book Critics Circle 2021 La crónica íntima de los últimos días de un genio. En marzo de 2014, Gabriel García Márquez, ...
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Mo Yan Speaks: Lectures and Speeches by the Nobel Laureate from China
PaperbackOriginal price $44.99 - Original price $44.99Original price $44.99$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /Nobel Laureate Mo Yan, whose name literally means "don't speak," is renowned for his fiction, which the Nobel Prize Foundation notes "merges folk t...
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Persona: A Biography of Yukio Mishima
PaperbackOriginal price $59.95 - Original price $59.95Original price $59.95$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /A critical biography of a modern Japanese literary giant, whose brilliant career ended in a spectacular ritual suicide.Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781...
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The Silver Spoon: Memoir of a Boyhood in Japan
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Japan's most beloved memoir, from the early 20th century, "an extraordinarily beautiful evocation of the world of childhood" (Howard Hibbett).Produ...
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The Story of Yone Noguchi
PaperbackOriginal price $7.99 - Original price $7.99Original price $7.99$10.99$10.99 - $10.99Current price $10.99| /The Story of Yone Noguchi (1914) is a memoir by Yone Noguchi. Both a leading modernist poet in English and Japanese and a dedicated literary critic...
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Mishima, Aesthetic Terrorist: An Intellectual Portrait
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Half a century after his shocking samurai-style suicide, Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) remains a deeply controversial figure. Though his writings and l...
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Lunch with a Bigot: The Writer in the World
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /To be a writer, Amitava Kumar says, is to be an observer. The twenty-six essays in Lunch with a Bigot are Kumar's observations of the world put int...
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Chasing the Modern: The Twentieth-Century Life of Poet Xu Zhimo
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /At the height of his literary prowess, Xu Zhimo was the most famous living poet in all of China. With his round spectacles and aristocratic profile...
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Chasing the Modern: The Twentieth-Century Life of Poet Xu Zhimo
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /At the height of his literary prowess, Xu Zhimo was the most famous living poet in all of China. With his round spectacles and aristocratic profile...
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John Okada: The Life and Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /No-No Boy, John Okada's only published novel, centers on a Japanese American who refuses to fight for the country that incarcerated him and his peo...
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William Faulkner: A Life Through Novels
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00Original price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Writing to American poet Malcolm Cowley in 1949, William Faulkner expressed his wish to be known only through his books. He would go on to win the ...
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Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young Lee
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In the foreword to Li-Young Lee’s first book, Rose (BOA Editions, 1986), Gerald Stern wrote, “What characterizes Li-Young Lee’s poetry is a certa...
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Poetry and Zen: Letters and Uncollected Writings of R. H. Blyth
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Never before published letters and uncollected short writings of R. H. Blyth, champion of Zen and the person who brought haiku to the world. Poetry...
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The Essential Tagore
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The Essential Tagore showcases the genius of India's Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian Nobel Laureate and possibly the most prolific and diverse...
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