April 2019 – The Stolen Bicycle – Wu Ming-yi
The Stolen Bicycle – Wu Ming-yi Book Group 1 – April 26,2019 Our April book club read was The Stolen Bicycle by Taiwanese author Wu Ming-yi. This book weaves fiction and non-fiction stories for the reader to explore how the narrator, Ch’eng, is trying to find what happened to his disappeared father by way of […]
April 2019 – A House Without Windows
A House Without Windows – Nadia Hashim Book Group 2 – April 24th, 2019 A vivid, unforgettable story of an unlikely sisterhood—an emotionally powerful and haunting tale of friendship that illuminates the plight of women in a traditional culture. For two decades, Zeba was a loving wife, a patient mother, and a peaceful villager. But […]
March 2019 -The Silk Merchant’s Daughter
The Silk Merchant’s Daughter by Dinah Jefferies Book Group 1 – March 2019 Dinah Jefferies is known for writing books that take place in Far East locations at some earlier period of history and usually featuring a search for identity, this as a result of her own identity crisis early in life. Centered in Vietnam […]
Feb 2019 – Beauty is a Wound
Beauty is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan Book Group 1 – Feb, 2019 The book group read Beauty is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan. Beauty is a Wound is about the beautiful Indo prostitute Dewi Ayu and her four daughters who are beset by incest, murder, bestiality, rape, insanity, monstrosity, and the often vengeful undead. […]
Jan 2019 – The Face
The Face: Strangers on a Pier by Tash Aw Book Group 1 – Jan, 2019 The Face by Tash Aw is described as ‘… a whirlwind personal history of modern Asia, as told through his Malaysian and Chinese heritage.’ In this short book Tash Aw ‘explores the panoramic cultural vitality of modern Asia through his […]
Jan 2019 – Iran Awakening
Iran Awakening by Shirin Ebadi Book Group 2 – Jan, 2019 Throughout an extraordinary career as a lawyer, writer, activist, and dissident, Shirin Ebadi has spoken out clearly and strongly for her native Iran—and her voice has resonated far beyond its borders. Best known as a dedicated human rights advocate who defends women and children […]
Nov 2018 – Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee Book Group 1 – November 2018 Pachinko is a story of four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family’s fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan, exiled from a home they never knew. Profoundly moving and gracefully told, Pachinko follows one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early […]
Oct, 2018 -The Amazing Racist by Chhimi Tenduf-La
Book Group 2 – October 201 This is the first novel by the author and his second novel was released in 2015. Eddie Trusted, an English schoolteacher in Colombo, wants to spend his life with Menaka Rupasinghe, a vibrant Sri Lankan beauty. Menaka’s orthodox father wants Menaka to marry someone of the same race, religion […]
Oct, 2018 – Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
Book Group 1 Do Not Say We Have Nothing is a multi-generational saga mostly set in China that deals with more than 60 years of the country’s history, starting with the 1949 Communist Revolution moving onto the Cultural Revolution (1966) and climaxing with the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. In between these major events in […]
Sep 2018 The Travelling Cat Chronicles
The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa Book Group 1 – September 28, 2018 Nana, the stray cat, landed on his feet. From home on the bonnet of a silver van in a Tokyo parking lot to the home of Satoru, his life was definitely looking up. In a new ‘international bestseller’ Hiro Arikawa has […]