Another Country (2012) – Anjali JOSEPH
Moving away from China, and indeed, all of East Asia, I’m continuing my journey down the Man Asian Literary Prize. Anjali Joseph is from Bombay, though went to university in […]
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Sour Sweet (1982) – Timothy MO
When Timothy Mo’s new book, Pure, came out last year, I was intrigued by its premise. Doing some more research on him, I discovered that he had actually been shortlisted […]
Ru (2009) – Kim THÚY
This novel caught my eye a while ago for a variety of reasons. A Vietnamese-Canadian writer, Kim Thúy originally wrote this novel in French in 2009, though it was translated […]
The Garden of Evening Mists (2012) – Tan Twan ENG
I read Tan’s first novel, The Gift of Rain, when it was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2007, and loved it. The evocation of Malaysia after the Second World […]
Embassytown (2011) – China MIÉVILLE
Small note about this review: it is full of spoilers, because I literally cannot talk about the huge ideas and concepts Miéville deals with without going into specifics. So if […]
