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An American short-story writer with an impressive ability to evoke everyday life in China
A Chinese novelist explores the chasm between high-flown ideology and brutal reality in this satire on the Great Leap Forward
A fast-paced thriller set among China’s political elite
East meets west in a phantasmagorical tale from an avant-garde Chinese author
A colonial housewife could not forget the romance and trauma of her ill-fated sea voyage to Africa
This piece shows the author knows her subject, and her descriptions of the trading arena have the ring of truth
This fascinating debut centres on a bewildering series of interviews between a novelist and her official biographer
A fine story collection that explores the impact of last year’s tragedy in Japan
This debut novel about a rich businessman’s daughter and a street trader has promising flourishes that catch the eye
This memoir-like novel narrates how two separate events affected the author’s life and that of others
Childhood recollections told in precise prose, enlivened with earthy similes and poetic scenes
A catharsis is left unavailable to the stoned, sleepy passengers of a car that hits and kills a young girl
This well-researched work of fiction depicts parallels between the experiences of blacks in the US and the Jewish in Europe
A wistful journalist’s stories of those with whom he shared opium dens evoke a dark, gritty vision of 1970s Mumbai
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