Lion City Lit: We Rose Up Slowly by Jon Gresham

Asian Books Blog is based in Singapore. Lion City Lit explores what’s going on in the City-State, lit-wise. Here Jon Gresham talks about We Rose Up Slowly, his debut collection of short stories, published by Math Paper Press, a local publishing house dedicated to promoting poetry and literary fiction. It is run by the same people who run BooksActually, an independent book shop which is well-known in Singapore.

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The Man Booker Prize for fiction 2015 shortlist is revealed here. 

Published Today: Dancing Through Red Dust by Murong Xuecun

About the book

Dancing Through Red Dust tells the story of lawyer Wei Da, who is forced to go on the run after an accident leaves his girlfriend’s blackmailing ex-lover dead. He destroys evidence, hides his assets and plans to flee China but his desperate bid for freedom ends in anguish when he is arrested and sent to the notorious Cao River Remand Centre.

This Week in Asian Review of Books

See the Asian Review of Books for ever-interesting discussion. Here is a list of its newest reviews, excerpts, letters, essays, and round ups:

3 Parallel Artworlds: 100 Art Things from Chinese Modern History, Chang Tsong-Zung and Gao Shiming, editors reviewed by Eric Wear
Sikkim: Requiem for a Himalayan Kingdom by Andrew Duff reviewed by Sinead Ferris
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan reviewed by Peter Gordon
Japanese Literature: From Murasaki to Murakami by Marvin Marcus reviewed by Todd Shimoda
Outside reading: links to essays and articles on India, Indonesia, China 
The Raj at War: A People’s History of India’s Second World War by Yasmin Khan reviewed by Nigel Collett
Out to Work: Migration, Gender, and the Changing Lives of Rural Women in Contemporary China by Arianne M Gaetano reviewed by SY Koh
The Burden of Being Burmese, Poems by Ko Ko Thett reviewed by Peter Gordon
Modern Ink: The Art of Xugu by Chen Siyuan, Craig L. Yee, Jung Ying Tsao and edited by Britta Erickson with J. May Lee Barrett reviewed by Juan Jose Morales

The Sunday Post

A rojak* of items that caught my eye this week…

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You may be interested in this piece I wrote for the UK Telegraph, on book subscription services for expats, if so click here.

Indie Spotlight: Translation opportunities for indie authors

Indie Spotlight is our monthly column on self-publishing. This month Siobhan Daiko explains how to get indie titles translated.