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  • The Tale of Khun Chang Khun Phaen Abridged Version

    by Chris Baker (Translator), Pasuk Phongpaichit (Translator) ...
    This outstanding classic of the Thai language is an entertaining folk epic set in the social panorama of traditional Siam. The tale is a spectacular love story rich in romance, adventure, violence, farce, and magic, and ending in the tragic and enigmatic death of its heroine.Written in lively prose, this new, abridged edition retains every scene, incident, and significant dialogue from the full ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Vincent Calvino Crime Novels, #14

    by HeavenLakePress, Christopher G. Moore ...
    Series Book 14 - Vincent Calvino Crime Novels
    In The Marriage Tree, Christopher G. Moore delivers a haunting addition to his Shamus Award-winning Vincent Calvino noir detective series. Set in the heart of Thailand, this atmospheric thriller explores the intersection of crime, mysticism, and human suffering.When a brilliant woman's bizarre "marriage of the dead" ceremonies lead to a series of ritualistic killings, private investigator Vincent ... Read more

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  • The Wallet of Kai Lung

    by Ernest Bramah ...
    pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. The sun had dipped behind the western mountains before Kai Lung, with twenty li or more still between him and the city of Knei Yang, entered the camphor-laurel forest which stretched almost to his destination. No person of consequence ever made the journey unattended; but Kai Lung professed to have no fear, ... Read more

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  • Beware of the Chinese Mama

    Novel Excerpts About the Chinese Mama-fioso

    by Melissa Yuan-Innes, Melissa Yi, Melissa Yin ...
    "Why don't you write about your mother? That's what I like when I read Amy Tan," suggested a friend.That was why I read Amy Tan too. Still, I resisted the suggestions until I wrote the Hope Sze medical thrillers and a version of my family snuck onto the pages.And now, wouldn't you know it I am a Chinese/Canadian/doctor/mother myself. So now, instead of grinding my teeth, I can write about my mom ... Read more

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  • Reunion

    by Christopher G. Moore ...
    An American war correspondent, Tony Collins, and a former Khmer Rouge child soldier, Sam Rith, reunite after nearly thirty years. Tony helped the world-weary 15-year-old Sam start a new life in the United States.Sam Rith arrived in America, sponsored by Christian couple. But Sam took more than a few wrong turns and ended up spending most of his youth locked up in an American prison before being ... Read more

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  • Outside in the Teaching Machine

    by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is one of the most pre-eminent postcolonial theorists writing today and a scholar of genuinely global reputation. This collection, first published in 1993, presents some of Spivak’s most engaging essays on works of literature such as Salman Rushdie's controversial Satanic Verses, and twentieth century thinkers such as Jacques Derrida and Karl Marx. Spivak relentlessly ... Read more

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  • Translation as Discovery and Other essays on Indian Literature in English Translation

    by Sujit Mukherjee ...
    The wide-ranging essays presented in this book deal more with the practical than with the theoretical aspects of translation. The emphasis throughout is on the element of discovery inherent in the making as well as in the reading of translations. The author states that translation is necessary to any developed literary culture, and argues that translation into English has made it possible for an ... Read more

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  • Exploring Magic Realism in Salman Rushdie's Fiction

    by Ursula Kluwick ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    Kluwick breaks new ground in this book, moving away from Rushdie studies that focus on his status as postcolonial or postmodern, and instead considering the significance of magic realism in his fiction. Rushdie’s magic realism, in fact, lies at the heart of his engagement with the post/colonial.In a departure from conventional descriptions of magic realism—based primarily on the Latin-American ... Read more

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  • Chicken Sex on Bamrung's Day Off

    by Christopher G. Moore ...
    The story is from the collection titled Chairs.A waiter from the old Thermae in Bangkok is surrounded nightly by hundreds of women who sells their favors at night. When he is called upon to help one during the day he finds that the relationship, his perception and the rules of the game are much more complex than he ever could have expected. Outside of the coconut shell he finds a new world to ... Read more

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  • Bodies of Song

    Kabir Oral Traditions and Performative Worlds in North India

    by Linda Hess ...
    Kabir was a great iconoclastic-mystic poet of fifteenth-century North India; his poems were composed orally, written down by others in manuscripts and books, and transmitted through song. Scholars and translators usually attend to written collections, but these present only a partial picture of the Kabir who has remained vibrantly alive through the centuries mostly in oral forms. Entering the ... Read more

    $54.89 USD

  • In Stereotype

    South Asia in the Global Literary Imaginary

    by Mrinalini Chakravorty ...
    Series series Literature Now
    In Stereotype confronts the importance of cultural stereotypes in shaping the ethics and reach of global literature. Mrinalini Chakravorty focuses on the seductive force and explanatory power of stereotypes in multiple South Asian contexts, whether depicting hunger, crowdedness, filth, slums, death, migrant flight, terror, or outsourcing. She argues that such commonplaces are crucial to defining ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Riddles of Belonging

    India in Translation and Other Tales of Possession

    by Christi A. Merrill ...
    Can the subaltern joke? Christi A. Merrill answers by invoking riddling, oral-based fictions from Hindi, Rajasthani, Sanskrit, and Urdu that dare to laugh at what traditions often keep hidden-whether spouse abuse, ethnic violence, or the uncertain legacies of a divinely wrought sex change.Herself a skilled translator, Merrill uses these examples to investigate the expectation that translated work ... Read more

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