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  • Hong Kong Noir

    de Xu Xi, Marshall Moore ...
    Series series Akashic Noir
    "Showcases the extremes of one of the world's capitals. From ghost stories, to historical thrills, to underworld brutality . . . endlessly fascinating."— CrimeReadsAkashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. In ... Leer más

    Antes $12.99 USD Ahora $2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Chinese Walls

    a novel

    de Xi Xu ...
    "The Master said, 'Men are close to one another by nature. They diverge as a result of repeated practice." This epigraph by Confucius is at the heart of CHINESE WALLS, Xu Xi's controversial literary debut. This novel-in-stories was one of the first to openly address incest in an Asian family. Told by the youngest child and only daughter, Ai-Lin, the narrative begins in her childhood and wends ... Leer más

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  • Daughters of Hui

    Novellas & Stories (1996)

    de Xi Xu ...
    "Your name or your person. Which is dearer?" In answer to Lao Tzu's ancient riddle, DAUGHTERS OF HUI offers a novella and three stories of four Asian women. All are surnamed Hui, and share at least a casual connection with Boston and New England. And all share that particular Hong Kong world view, one that roots into a past not well understood while reaching out to a future that "speaks too many ... Leer más

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  • Dear Hong Kong

    An Elegy For A City: Penguin Specials

    de Xu Xi ...
    Series series Penguin China | Penguin Specials
    Xu Xi’s body of work witnesses her turbulent love affair with her home-city of Hong Kong. In this probing memoir, she unravels her recently finalised decision to leave the city for good. She critiques a Hong Kong that has, in her eyes, lost its way. And yet, it is only out of the city’s enduring presence in her life, both in the form of memory and periodic homecomings, that she has carved out a ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Horizon Hong Kong

    Selected Stories

    de Xu Xi ...
    "A collection of heartbreaks and awakenings set to lightning." -Junot Díaz, author, This Is How You Lose HerA siren call to Hong Kong's yesterday, today, and tomorrow, envisioned by one of the city's most prescient and unapologetic writers.One of Hong Kong's leading English writers, Xu Xi investigates and invigorates the transnational, transcultural, and translingual dimensions of her beloved city ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • The Art and Craft of Asian Stories

    A Writer's Guide and Anthology

    de Professor Robin Hemley, Xu Xi ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Writer's Guides and Anthologies
    An all-in-one craft guide and anthology, this is the first creative writing book to find inspiration and guidance in the diverse literary traditions of Asia. Including exemplary stories by leading writers from Japan, China, India, Singapore and beyond as well as those from Asian diasporas in Europe and America, The Art and Craft of Asian Stories offers an exciting take on the traditional how-to ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • Interruptions

    with photographs by David Clarke and essays by Xu Xi

    de David Clarke, Xu Xi ...
    Interruptions is rooted in the tradition of contemporary ekphrastic writing, where an author creates a literary response in order to confront or narrate a work of visual art. Here, the photographer and writer engage in a dialogue between David Clarke’s selections from his photographic archives and Xu Xi’s essays written in response to each photo, which, in turn, triggers the next photographic ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • This Fish Is Fowl

    Essays of Being

    de Xu Xi ...
    Series series American Lives
    In This Fish Is Fowl Xu Xi offers the transnational and feminist perspective of a contemporary “glocalized” American life. Xu’s quirky, darkly comic, and obsessively personal essays emerge from her diverse professional career as a writer, business executive, entrepreneur, and educator. From her origins in Hong Kong as an Indonesian of Chinese descent to her U.S. citizenship and multiple countries ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

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  • The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories (Volume Two)

    de Jason Erik Lundberg ...
    Series Libro 2 - Best New Singaporean Short Stories
    The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Two gathers twenty-four of the finest stories from Singaporean writers published in 2013 and 2014, selected from hundreds published in journals, magazines, anthologies and single-author collections. These pieces examine life in Singapore, as well as beyond its borders to Toronto, California, Shanghai, Andhra Pradesh, ... Leer más

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  • Growing Up Asian in Australia

    Edición de Alice Pung ...
    Asian-Australians have often been written about by outsiders, as outsiders. In this collection, compiled by award-winning author Alice Pung, they tell their own stories with verve, courage and a large dose of humour. These are not predictable tales of food, festivals and traditional dress. The food is here in all its steaming glory - but listen more closely to the dinner-table chatter and you ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked.

    de Sheung-King ...
    Finalist for the 2021 Amazon Canada First Novel AwardLonglisted for Canada Reads 2021A young translator travels from his home in Toronto to Hong Kong, Macau, Prague, Tokyo. His unnamed lover comes with him: in restaurants and hotel rooms, they entertain each other with comic and enigmatic folk tales. Yet their verbal play and philosophical questions mask the fragility of their own relationship, ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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  • The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories (Volume One)

    de Jason Erik Lundberg ...
    Series Libro 1 - Best New Singaporean Short Stories
    In recent years, Singaporean literature has begun experiencing a sea change, with the short story form enjoying a renaissance. As a result, an explosion of short fiction with a Singaporean flavour has been produced to incredible effect, both by emerging and established writers. For the prose enthusiast, it is a very exciting time.The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories: ... Leer más

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