Shoshaman

Shinya Arai

• Paperback | Engels | Voices from Asia | nr. 3
• Acknowledging no god but the corporate good, the shoshamen--high-powered professionals within Japan's integrated trading companies--serve as the unrel... Lees meer

The Soil

Takashi Nagatsuka

• Paperback | Engels | Voices from Asia | nr. 8
• Provides a portrait of rural peasant life in Japan during the Meiji era. Lees meer

Tokyo Stories

• Paperback | Engels | Voices from Asia | nr. 12
• This anthology of translated short stories by Japanese writers captures the city of Tokyo through most of the twentieth century--a period of war, bomb... Lees meer

The Lioness in Bloom

Susan Fulop Kepner

• Paperback | Engels | Voices from Asia | nr. 9
• Kepner's selection shows the many ways fiction has mirrored the lives of Thai women over the twentieth century. The spectrum is broad, encompassing th... Lees meer

A Poem at the Right Moment

• Paperback | Engels | Voices from Asia
• A Poem at the Right Moment collects, and preserves, poems--called catus --that have circulated orally for centuries in South India. The poems are rema... Lees meer

A Poem at the Right Moment

• Hardcover | Engels | Voices from Asia
• A Poem at the Right Moment collects, and preserves, poems--called catus --that have circulated orally for centuries in South India. The poems are rema... Lees meer

Himalayan Voices

Michael James Hutt

• Paperback | Engels | Voices from Asia | nr. 2
• While the natural splendor of Nepal has been celebrated in many books, very little of the substantial body of Nepali literature has appeared in Englis... Lees meer

Of Women, Outcastes, Peasants, and Rebels

• Paperback | Engels | Voices from Asia | nr. 1
• Until now the large body of socially focused Bengali literature has remained little known to Western readers. This collection includes some of the fin... Lees meer

Harukor

Katsuichi Honda

• Paperback | Engels | Voices from Asia | nr. 11
• In this engaging tale, Honda Katsuichi reconstructs the life of an Ainu woman living on the northern island of Japan over five hundred years ago. Haru... Lees meer

The Autobiography of Osugi Sakae

Sakae Osugi

• Paperback | Engels | Voices from Asia | nr. 6
• In the Japanese labor movement of the early twentieth century, no one captured the public imagination as vividly as Osugi Sakae (1885-1923): rebel, an... Lees meer

Encounter

Moo-Sook Hahn

• Paperback | Engels | Voices from Asia | nr. 5
• This historical novel, the recipient of the 1986 Grand Prix of the Republic of Korea Literature Award, concerns the experiences of Tasan, a high-ranki... Lees meer

Rainbow

Dun Mao

• Paperback | Engels | Voices from Asia | nr. 4
• With this translation of the 1929 novel Rainbow ( Hong ), one of China's most influential works of fiction is at last available in English. Rainbow ch... Lees meer