English, August
An Indian Story
Written by Upamanyu Chatterjee
Introduction by Akhil Sharma

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: April 4, 2006
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-179-0 (1-59017-179-9)

Agastya Sen, the hero of English, August, is a child of the Indian elite. His father is the governor of Bengal. His friends go to Yale and Harvard. He himself has secured a position in the most prestigious and exclusive of Indian government agencies, the IAS.

Agastya’s first assignment is to the... Read more >

Brothers
A Novel
Written by Da Chen

Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: June 12, 2007
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9729-6 (1-4000-9729-0)

At the height of China’s Cultural Revolution a powerful general fathered two sons. Tan was born to the general’s wife and into a life of comfort and luxury. His half brother, Shento, was born to the general’s mistress, who threw herself off a cliff in the mountains of Balan only moments... Read more >

Colors of the Mountain

Written by Da Chen

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: January 16, 2001
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-72060-1 (0-385-72060-2)

"I was born in southern China in 1962, in the tiny town of Yellow Stone. They called it the Year of Great Starvation."

In 1962, as millions of Chinese citizens were gripped by Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution and the Red Guards enforced a brutal regime of communism, a boy was born to... Read more >

Egg on Mao
A Story of Love, Hope and Defiance
Written by Denise Chong

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage Canada
On Sale: August 30, 2011
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-35580-5 (0-307-35580-2)

The eagerly-awaited new book by Denise Chong, author of the award-winning bestseller, The Concubine’s Children.

In her first book in a decade, Chong tells the story of a man who humiliated a repressive regime in front of the entire world, and whose daring gesture informs our view of human rights to this... Read more >

The Art of War
Complete Text and Commentaries
Written by Thomas Cleary

Format: Trade Paperback, 474 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: June 10, 2003
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-59030-054-1 (1-59030-054-8)

This Shambhala paperback edition of The Art of War collects the essential versions of the Art of War, complete with illuminating commentaries written by Sun Tzu's successors. This volume includes:

•The Art of War, by Sun Tzu;
Compiled over two-thousand years ago by a mysterious warrior-philosopher, The Art of War is still perhaps... Read more >

Geisha
The Life, the Voices, the Art
Written by Jodi Cobb

Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 27, 1998
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70180-1 (0-375-70180-X)

Here, brought vividly to life, is an icon of Japanese culture and custom—the geisha in her role as human work of art and perfect woman.

A hundred years ago geisha numbered eighty thousand; today there are a thousand at most. Happily, Jodi Cobb is able to show us—before they vanish—both the ceremonial... Read more >

Burmese Lessons
A true love story
Written by Karen Connelly

Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
On Sale: May 18, 2010
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-52800-9 (0-385-52800-0)

When Karen Connelly goes to Burma in 1996 to gather information for a series of articles, she discovers a place of unexpected beauty and generosity. She also encounters a country ruled by a brutal military dictatorship that imposes a code of censorship and terror. Carefully seeking out the regime’s critics, she... Read more >

The Routes of Man
Travels in the Paved World
Written by Ted Conover

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 8, 2011
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7702-1 (1-4000-7702-8)

Roads bind our world—metaphorically and literally—transforming landscapes and the lives of the people who inhabit them. Roads have unparalleled power to impact communities, unite worlds and sunder them, and reveal the hopes and fears of those who travel them.

With his marvelous eye for detail and his contagious enthusiasm, Ted Conover explores... Read more >

The Korean War
A History
Written by Bruce Cumings

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: July 12, 2011
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7896-4 (0-8129-7896-X)

A bracing account of a war that lingers in our collective memory as both ambiguous and unjustly ignored.

For Americans, it was a discrete conflict lasting from 1950 to 1953. But for the Asian world the Korean War was a generations-long struggle that still haunts contemporary events. With access to new evidence... Read more >

The Age of Kali

Written by William Dalrymple

Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-94890-8 (0-307-94890-0)

From the author of The Last Mughal and Nine Lives: the classic stories he gathered during the ten years he spent journeying across the Indian subcontinent, from Sri Lanka and southern India to the North West Frontier of Pakistan. As he searched for evidence of Kali Yug, the “age of darkness”... Read more >

In Xanadu

Written by William Dalrymple

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-94888-5 (0-307-94888-9)

William Dalrymple’s award-winning first book: his classic, fiercely intelligent and wonderfully entertaining account of his journey across Marco Polo’s 700-year-old route from Jerusalem to Xanadu, the summer palace of Kubla Khan.

At the age of twenty-two, Dalrymple left his college in Cambridge to travel to the ruins of Kubla Khan’s stately... Read more >

The Last Mughal
The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857
Written by William Dalrymple

Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7833-2 (1-4000-7833-4)


Winner of the 2007 Duff Cooper Prize

On a hazy November afternoon in Rangoon, 1862, a shrouded corpse was escorted by a small group of British soldiers to an anonymous grave in a prison enclosure. As the British Commissioner in charge insisted, “No vestige will remain to distinguish where the last of... Read more >

India Unbound
The Social and Economic Revolution from Independence to the Global Information Age
Written by Gurcharan Das

Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: April 9, 2002
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-72074-8 (0-385-72074-2)

India today is a vibrant free-market democracy, a nation well on its way to overcoming decades of widespread poverty. The nation’s rise is one of the great international stories of the late twentieth century, and in India Unbound the acclaimed columnist Gurcharan Das offers a sweeping economic history of India from... Read more >

Nothing to Envy
Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Written by Barbara Demick

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
On Sale: September 21, 2010
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-52391-2 (0-385-52391-2)

Finalist, 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction
(winner to be announced March 10th, 2011)

Winner, 2010 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction

Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years—a chaotic period that saw the death of Kim Il-sung, the unchallenged rise to power of his son Kim... Read more >

Nothing to Envy
Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Written by Barbara Demick

Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
On Sale: December 29, 2009
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-52390-5 (0-385-52390-4)

Finalist, 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction
(winner to be announced March 10th, 2011)

Winner, 2010 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction

Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years—a chaotic period that saw the death of Kim Il-sung, the unchallenged rise to power of his son Kim... Read more >

The Dictator's Learning Curve
Inside the Global Battle for Democracy
Written by William J. Dobson

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: March 12, 2013
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-47755-2 (0-307-47755-X)

In this riveting anatomy of authoritarianism, acclaimed journalist William Dobson takes us inside the battle between dictators and those who would challenge their rule. Recent history has seen an incredible moment in the war between dictators and democracy—with waves of protests sweeping Syria and Yemen, and despots falling in Egypt, Tunisia... Read more >

Sento at Sixth and Main
Preserving Landmarks of Japanese American Heritage
Written by Gail Dubrow

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: October 17, 2004
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-1-58834-208-9 (1-58834-208-5)

Quietly elegant, yet issuing a clarion call for intervention, Sento at Sixth and Main rediscovers early Japanese American culture and presents an indisputable case for the preservation of ten key landmarks in California and Washington. The authors recreate the Japanese American experience, intertwining rich oral histories from community members with current... Read more >

Raskols
The Gangs of Papua New Guinea
Written by Stephen Dupont
Contribution by Ben Bohane

Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
Publisher: powerHouse Books
On Sale: October 9, 2012
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 978-1-57687-601-5 (1-57687-601-2)

Papua New Guinea: A land of striking beauty, mountain ranges, lush rainforests, and some of the most spectacular coastlines on earth. A land with over eight hundred unique tribes and languages. A land where crime has gotten so out of control, personal security services are the country’s largest growth industry.

Papua New... Read more >

The road to victory: From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa

Written by Dale Dye and Robert O'Neill

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
On Sale: November 22, 2011
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 978-1-84908-716-2 (1-84908-716-4)

This new history explores each of the battles the United States fought against Imperial Japan, from the naval clashes at Midway and Coral Sea to the desperate, bloody fighting on Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Each chapter in the book reveals the horrors of battle and the persistent determination on both sides... Read more >

Facing the Wave
A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami
Written by Gretel Ehrlich

Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-90731-8 (0-307-90731-7)

A passionate student of Japanese poetry, theater, and art for much of her life, Gretel Ehrlich felt compelled to return to the earthquake-and-tsunami-devastated Tohoku coast to bear witness, listen to survivors, and experience their terror and exhilaration in villages and towns where all shelter and hope seemed lost. In an eloquent... Read more >

Cultivating Ch'i
A Samurai Physician's Teachings on the Way of Health
Written by Kaibara Ekiken
Translated by William Scott Wilson

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-59030-988-9 (1-59030-988-X)

Samurai are best known for taking life–but here is a samurai doctor’s prescription for how to preserve life, and to make yours a long and healthy one. Unlike other samurai of his time, the samurai Kaibara Ekiken (1630—1714) was concerned less with swordsmanship than with how to maintain and nurture the... Read more >

I Begin My Life All Over
The Hmong and the American Immigrant Experience
Written by Lillian Faderman

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: April 13, 1999
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-7235-6 (0-8070-7235-4)

I Begin My Life All Over is an oral history of 36 real-life strangers in a strange land, an intimate study of the immigrant experience in contemporary America.

“Faderman has collected oral histories from individuals ranging from adults who escaped through the jungles of Laos, to the American-born teenagers anxious to negotiate... Read more >

China Airborne
The Test of China's Future
Written by James Fallows

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3127-6 (1-4000-3127-3)

From one of our most influential journalists, here is a timely, vital, and illuminating account of the next stage of China’s modernization—its plan to rival America as the world’s leading aerospace power and to bring itself from its low-wage past to a high-tech future.

In 2011, China announced its twelfth Five-Year Plan... Read more >

China Airborne

Written by James Fallows

Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-42211-9 (0-375-42211-0)

More than two-thirds of the new airports under construction today are being built in China. Chinese airlines expect to triple their fleet size over the next decade and will account for the fastest-growing market for Boeing and Airbus. But the Chinese are determined to be more than customers. In 2011, China... Read more >

Looking at the Sun
The Rise of the New East Asian Economic and Political System
Written by James Fallows

Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 24, 1995
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-76162-4 (0-679-76162-4)

Fallows reveals how political goals and historical experience have shaped Japan's economic rise and placed it at the heart of the Asian system. He shows how the explosive growth of Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore has been fueled by Japanese investment; why Burma, the Philippines, and Vietnam have been largely isolated from... Read more >