In her research on witchcraft trials, Swiss writer Eveline Hasler discovered children who were accused of witchcraft and punished by death. With this thought-provoking novel, The Child Witches of Lucerne and Buchau, provides a moving memorial for them, translated from the original German by Waltraud Maierhofer and Jennifer Vanderbeek.
The 'great' HongKong novel is probably still to be written. But for a definitiveaccount of what the people of the city live by and die for, look nofurther than David T. K. Wong. At last a native son hascaptured brilliantly the essence of a unique society. A range ofcharacters, from barmen to laborers, from scholars to wealthybusinessman, infuse ......
Imagine the mid 1980's, last day of school, summer break. A teen rushes to meet his mother, who is being released from the hospital after cancer surgery. When the teen arrives, he finds out his mother is dead, but his ex-gangbanging dad, who has been in jail the last seven years, is at the hospital ready to take the teen home. Mendel, is a ......
The first-ever English translation reveals the inner voice of a brilliant Bolshevik journalist and politician Through this dramatic history by Stefan Heym, we become intimate with the story of the maverick and internationalist Karl Radek, known as the editor of the newspaper of record throughout the Soviet era, Isvestia. Beginning as Lenin's ......
This annotated translation of Enchanted Dulcinea by Mexican author Angelina Muniz-Huberman features a narrator traveling through memories, times, and places. The author's mystical novel exemplifies crypto-Judaism and exile in Latin America and highlights her importance in the Sephardic literary tradition.
When twins Afya and Aftab, along with their adopted brother Khaled, leave the shelter of a hidden valley, they are astonished by the bustle and noise of the outside world. But beneath this chaos is an order more threatening than bedlam. An army of shadows gathers, looking to break free from the navel of the world, where they have been subdued for ......
Victoria Park in Hong Kong is the crossroads for thousands of Muslim women who come from Indonesia to find their fortunes or at least support their families in the teeming Chinese city. Most come as maids, but some descend into the netherworld of overstayers, illegal street hawkers and PR girls. Whoever they are, they all know Dina: a woman who ......
