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#WetheSurvivors by @Tash_Aw is next up for the #TenTweetThread book review. “An uncompromising portrait of an outsider navigating a society in transition, Tash Aw’s anti-nostalgic tale, We, the Survivors, holds its tension to the very end.” Am super excited about this author!
#Bright by @duanwad is next up for the #TenTweetThread book review. “Duanwad Pimwana’s bittersweet novel reveals glimpses of the inner life of Thai culture in such an entertaining manner that one can’t help but absorb its social realist ingredients with pleasure and ease.”
#BangkokWakesToRain by @pitchaya next up for the #TenTweetThread review. “Bangkok Wakes to Rain is an elegy for what time erases and a love song to all that persists, yearning, into the unknowable future.” Named a best book of 2019 by The New York Times and The Washington Post.
#TheNightTiger by @yangszechoo is next up for the #TenTweetThread book review. “Yangsze Choo's The Night Tiger pulls us into a world of servants and masters, age-old superstition and modern idealism, sibling rivalry and forbidden love.” Loved Ghost Bride so looking forward to it!
#TheGhostBride by @yangszechoo is next up for the #TenTweetThread review. “Yangsze Choo's novel is a startlingly original historical fantasy infused with Chinese folklore, romantic intrigue, and unexpected supernatural twists.” Audiobook narration by the author and is quite good!
#TheGiftofRain by Tan Twan Eng is next up for the #TenTweetThread book review. “In the tradition of celebrated wartime storytellers Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene, Tan Twan Eng's debut novel casts a powerful spell.” Big thx to @alicepoon1 for the find!
#IntheShadowoftheBanyan by Vaddey Ratner @VaddeyRatner is the next #TenTweetThread. “Told by a young girl who comes of age amid the Cambodian killing fields, this searing first novel has been hailed as “a masterpiece…utterly heartbreaking and impossibly beautiful.” #KhmerLit
#EveningistheWholeDay by Preeta Samarasan next up for the #TenTweetThread book review treatment. “Set in Malaysia, this spellbinding debut introduces us to the prosperous Rajasekharan family as its closely guarded secrets are slowly peeled away.” Thx to @JeremyTiang for the find!
@JeremyTiang @seattletimes @NanWuReadsAloud I always buy (yes, buy!) both the Kindle and the Audiobook versions for #TenTweetThread books, and am so glad to see these excellent narrators getting a shoutout like this. Three legs of the fiction-in-translation stool: author, translator, and audiobook narrator.
#TheSympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen @viet_t_nguyen is next up for the #TenTweetThread review. “Winner 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, The Sympathizer is a blistering exploration of identity and America, a gripping espionage novel, and a powerful story of love and friendship.”
#TheWandering by Intan Paramaditha @sihirperempuan and transl. by Stephen J. Epstein is next up for the #TenTweetThread book review. “The Wandering is a novel about the highs and lows of global nomadism...by one of Asia’s most exciting writers.” #Indonesia #Literature Ayo pergi!
#BeautyIsaWound by Eka Kurniawan transl. by Annie Tucker next up for the #TenTweetThread book review. “This epic #novel by #Indonesia’s rising star combines history, satire, family tragedy, legend, humor, and romance in a sweeping polyphony.” Ayo pergi!
#AppleandKnife by @sihirperempuan and transl. by Stephen J. Epstein is next up for the #TenTweetThread treatment. “A dazzling and provocative debut story collection from celebrated Indonesian writer Intan Paramaditha.” As I await my copy of #TheWandering! Ayo pergi!
#TheGardenOfEveningMist by Tan Twan Eng up next for the #TenTweetThread book review. Winner of the Man Asian Literary Prize, an "elegant and haunting novel of war, art and memory" (The Independent). #Malaysia #Literature. Mari pergi!
#TheBorrowed by Chan Ho-Kei with translation by @JeremyTiang is next up for the #TenTweetThread treatment. “It tells the story of Kwan Chun-dok, a detective who’s worked across six decades of #HongKong’s volatile history.” Really enjoyed #SecondSister so let’s go!
A Nail the Evening Hangs On by @monicasokwrites is next up for the #TenTweetThread treatment. “In her debut collection, Monica Sok uses poetry to reshape a family’s memory....” #Khmer #literature #KhmerLit Have been to Phnom Penh and Siem Reap, but poetry is a foreign land to me!
#StateofEmergency by @JeremyTiang is next up for the #TenTweetThread treatment. “Jeremy Tiang's debut novel dives into the tumultuous days of leftist movements and political detentions in Singapore and Malaysia.” Winner of #Singapore #Literature Prize 2018, Fiction. Let’s go lah!
#TouchMeNot #NoliMeTangere by #JoseRizal next up for the #TenTweetThread book review treatment. “Written in Spanish and published in 1887, José Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere offered up a devastating critique of #Philippines society under Spanish colonial rule.”
#AridDreams by @duanwad with translation by @muipoopoksakul next up for the #TenTweetThread book review treatment. “In thirteen stories that investigate ordinary and working-class Thailand, characters aspire for more but remain suspended in routine.” ไปกันเถอะ Let’s go!
#TheMountainsSing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai @nguyen_p_quemai with #Audiobook narration by Quyen Ngo is next up for the #TenTweetThread book review treatment. Looks like I am on a bit of a Vietnam binge. Sorry, am a sucker for historical epics of “lyrical beauty”.
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