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Wednesday, 30 January 2019

Broken Wings, Jia Pingwa's novel about a trafficked woman, in translation

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              Nicky Harman writes : I have just finished translating Broken Wings , a novel by Jia Pingwa about h uman trafficki...
Tuesday, 29 January 2019

Tsundoku #1 – February 2019 - New Year; New Column…

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I’ve opted to call this monthly missive on forthcoming books, tsundoku, the Japanese word for all those books that pile up by your bedside...
Monday, 28 January 2019

Lion City Lit: Interview with Seema Punwani, Author of Cross Connection

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Seema Punwani is a writer, single mum, and marketing professional who learns negotiation skills from her teenage son. She launched her debut...
Friday, 25 January 2019

500 words from Tony Reid

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500 words from is an occasional series in which novelists talk about their new novels. Tony Reid has recently brought out Mataram: a novel ...

Book of the Year of the Dog

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Asian Books Blog runs its own literary award: the Asian Books Blog Book of the Lunar Year. We are about to confer the award for the Year o...
Friday, 14 December 2018

Happy reading!! Christmas break

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The blog is closing for Christmas.  It will re-open on Friday January 25, when we will launch our poll to find the book of the lunar year ...
Thursday, 13 December 2018

There’s no Poetry in a Typhoon by Agnès Bun

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Agnès Bun is a video journalist for Agence France-Presse, a literary critic for the Asian Review of Books and a published poet. Before the a...