The Chinese just love to read - both books originally written in Chinese and works translated from foreign languages: China Daily J. K. Rowling tops the list with 8.5 million yuan ($1.4 million), Haruki Murakami follows with...
Day: January 7, 2014
John Freeman reviews ‘On Such a Full Sea’ by Chang-Rae Lee in The Boston Globe Why do novelists love to destroy...
Stingray by Kim Joo-young, translated by Inrae You Vinciguera and Louis Vinciguerra (Library of Korean Literature, vol. 1) reviewed in BookDragon...
Hwang’s story belongs on a bookshelf somewhere between the Charlotte’s Web and Animal Farm, says Dmitri Nasrallah in The Toronto...
Philip Seib reviews Diaries of an Unfinished Revolution edited by Matthew Cassel, Layla Al-Zubaidi and Nemonie Craven Roderick (Penguin) for...
Land Where I Flee is a terrific read, says Aashnaa Seth. A woman osctracised for marrying beneath her caste, a...
Kishwar Naheed, Afzal Ahmed Syed, Satyapal Anand, Wustatullah Khan and Harris Khalique got together to discuss how Urdu literature has...