Tokyo Vice
An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
Written by Jake Adelstein

Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-37879-8 (0-307-37879-9)

From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club: a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up.

At nineteen, Jake Adelstein went to Japan in search of peace and tranquility. What he got was a life of crime... Read more >

The Immortals

Written by Amit Chaudhuri

Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27022-1 (0-307-27022-X)

The award-winning author of A New World now gives us an incantatory novel—at once plaintive and comic—about the powerful undercurrent of cultural and familial tradition in a society enthralled with the future.

Bombay in the 1980s: Shyam Lal is a highly regarded voice teacher, trained by his father in the classical idiom... Read more >

Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth

Written by Xiaolu Guo

Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-38938-1 (0-307-38938-3)

The latest novel from Orange Prize finalist Xiaolu Guo is the enchantingly comic story of a young Chinese woman's life as a film extra in hyper-modern, tumultuous Beijing.

Though twenty-one-year-old Fenfang Wang has traveled 1,800 miles to seek her fortune in urban Beijing, she is ill-prepared for what greets her: a Communist... Read more >

Gandhi & Churchill
The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age
Written by Arthur Herman

Format: Trade Paperback, 736 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: April 28, 2009
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-38376-8 (0-553-38376-0)

In this fascinating and meticulously researched book, bestselling historian Arthur Herman sheds new light on two of the most universally recognizable icons of the twentieth century, and reveals how their forty-year rivalry sealed the fate of India and the British Empire.

They were born worlds apart: Winston Churchill to Britain’s most glamorous... Read more >

The Blue Notebook
A Novel
Written by James Levine, MD

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
On Sale: July 7, 2009
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-52871-9 (0-385-52871-X)

A haunting yet astonishingly hopeful story of a young Indian prostitute who uses writing and imagination to transcend her reality.

An unforgettable, deeply affecting tribute to the powers of imagination and the resilience of childhood, The Blue Notebook tells the story of Batuk, a precocious 15-year-old girl from rural India who was... Read more >

Shanghai Girls
A Novel
Written by Lisa See

Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: May 26, 2009
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6711-4 (1-4000-6711-1)

In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, a city of great wealth and glamour, the home of millionaires and beggars, gangsters and gamblers, patriots and revolutionaries, artists and warlords. Thanks to the financial security and material comforts provided by their father’s prosperous rickshaw business, twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger... Read more >