Man Asian Literary Prize Longlist 2011
The Folded Earth
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Maclehose Press
In a remote town in the Himalaya, Maya tries to put behind her a time of great sorrow. By day she teaches in a school and at night she types up drafts of a magnum opus by her landlord, a relic of princely India known to ... Buy or find out more →
1Q84
$39.95$34.95 – Hardcover book / Harvill
The Australian edition, exceeding 900 pages, comprises all three volumes of the book (which were published in Japan and the UK as separate books).
Read an early review of 1Q84 by friend of Readings and Melbournian Louis ... Buy or find out more →
The Good Muslim
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
By the winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize.
One hot afternoon in a remote Bangladeshi village, a telegram brings life-changing news to Maya Haque’s door . . .
Eight years before, a brutal war tore Maya’s countr... Buy or find out more →
River Of Smoke
$32.95$27.95 – Trade paperback / Hodder Headline
The much anticipated sequel to the bestselling, Booker shortlisted, Sea of Poppies.
The second in the Ibis trilogy, this sweeping historical saga opens in Mauritius and follows characters both old and new as they journey... Buy or find out more →
Please Look After Mother
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Weidenfeld And Nicolson
PLEASE LOOK AFTER MOTHER is about So-nyo, a wife and mother, who has lived a life of sacrifice and compromise. A few years before the novel begins she suffered a stroke, leaving her vulnerable and often confused. Now, tr... Buy or find out more →
Dream Of Ding Village
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
The life and death of an entire community is told by a dead boy. His story reveals the moral vacuum at the heart of Communist-capitalist China.
During a blood-contamination scandal in Henan province, villagers sell their... Buy or find out more →
The Colonel
$24.95 – Paperback book / Haus Publishing
It's a pitch black, rainy night in a small Iranian town. Inside his house the Colonel is immersed in thought. Memories are storming in. Memories of his wife. Memories of the great patriots of the past, all of them assass... Buy or find out more →
The Wandering Falcon
$29.95 – Hardcover book / Hamish Hamilton
The boy known as Tor Baz, the wandering falcon journeys between tribes. Where does he come from, and what is his story? He meets men who fight under different flags, and women who risk everything if they break their soci... Buy or find out more →
The Sly Company Of People Who Care
$27.95 – Paperback book / Macmillan
A twenty-six-year-old Indian cricket journalist, not unlike our author, decides to give up his job and travel to a country where he can ‘escape the deadness of his life’. So he arrives in Guyana, a forgotten colonial soc... Buy or find out more →