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  • The Book of Love

    The Story of the Kamasutra

    An engaging, enlightening "biography" of the ancient Hindu manuscript that became the world's most famous sex manualThe Kamasutra is one of the world's best-known yet least-understood texts, its title instantly familiar but its actual contents widely misconstrued. In the popular imagination, it is a work of practical pornography, a how-to guide of absurdly acrobatic sexual techniques. Yet the book ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Tale of Khun Chang Khun Phaen Abridged Version

    This outstanding classic of the Thai language is an entertaining folk epic set in the social panorama of traditional Siam. The tale is a spectacular love story rich in romance, adventure, violence, farce, and magic, and ending in the tragic and enigmatic death of its heroine. Written in lively prose, this new, abridged edition retains every scene, incident, and significant dialogue from the full ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Bangkok A Go Go

    by John Hail ...
    The novel starts in a Bangkok bar but soon the reader is transported to the key times and places of Thailand's turbulent political history and to the jungle camps of Thai communist guerrillas and Cambodian rebels. Set in the 1970s and '80s, Bangkok A-go-Go presents a unique vision of the political struggles that shaped Thailand's recent history. Bangkok A-go-Go is written from an insider's ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Graphic Migrations

    Precarity and Gender in India and the Diaspora

    by Kavita Daiya ...
    Series series Asian American History & Cultu
    In Graphic Migrations, Kavita Daiya provides a literary and cultural archive of refugee stories and experiences to respond to the question “What is created?” after decolonization and the 1947 Partition of India. She explores how stories of Partition migrations shape and influence the political and cultural imagination of secularism and contribute to gendered citizenship for South Asians in India ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Beware of the Chinese Mama

    Novel Excerpts About the Chinese Mama-fioso

    "Why don't you write about your mother? That's what I like when I read Amy Tan," suggested a friend.That was why I read Amy Tan too. Still, I resisted the suggestions until I wrote the Hope Sze medical thrillers and a version of my family snuck onto the pages.And now, wouldn't you know it I am a Chinese/Canadian/doctor/mother myself. So now, instead of grinding my teeth, I can write about my mom ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • More than Real

    A History of the Imagination in South India

    by David Shulman ...
    From the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, the major cultures of southern India underwent a revolution in sensibility reminiscent of what had occurred in Renaissance Italy. During this time, the imagination came to be recognized as the defining feature of human beings. More than Real draws our attention to a period in Indian history that signified major civilizational change and the emergence ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Bhakti and Power

    Debating India's Religion of the Heart

    Series series Global South Asia
    Bhakti, a term ubiquitous in the religious life of South Asia, has meanings that shift dramatically according to context and sentiment. Sometimes translated as “personal devotion,” bhakti nonetheless implies and fosters public interaction. It is often associated with the marginalized voices of women and lower castes, yet it has also played a role in perpetuating injustice. Barriers have been torn ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Culture of Encounters

    Sanskrit at the Mughal Court

    Series series South Asia Across the Disciplines
    Culture of Encounters documents the fascinating exchange between the Persian-speaking Islamic elite of the Mughal Empire and traditional Sanskrit scholars, which engendered a dynamic idea of Mughal rule essential to the empire's survival. This history begins with the invitation of Brahman and Jain intellectuals to King Akbar's court in the 1560s, then details the numerous Mughal-backed texts they ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Readings of the Vessantara Jātaka

    Edited by Steven Collins ...
    Series series Columbia Readings of Buddhist Literature
    The Vessantara Jataka tells the story of Prince Vessantara, who attained the Perfection of Generosity by giving away his fortune, his children, and his wife. Vessantara was the penultimate rebirth as a human of the future Gotama Buddha, and his extreme charity has been represented and reinterpreted in texts, sermons, rituals, and art throughout South and Southeast Asia and beyond. This anthology ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Philology and Criticism

    A Guide to Mahābhārata Textual Criticism

    Series Book 1184 - Cultural, Historical and Textual Studies of South Asian Religions
    Philology and Criticism contrasts the Mahābhārata’s preservation and transmission within the Indian scribal and commentarial traditions with Sanskrit philology after 1900, as German Indologists proposed a critical edition of the Mahābhārata to validate their racial and nationalist views. Vishwa Adluri and Joydeep Bagchee show how, in contrast to the Indologists’ unscientific theories, V. S. ... Read more

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  • Chicken Sex on Bamrung's Day Off

    The story is from the collection titled Chairs. A waiter from the old Thermae in Bangkok is surrounded nightly by hundreds of women who sells their favors at night. When he is called upon to help one during the day he finds that the relationship, his perception and the rules of the game are much more complex than he ever could have expected. Outside of the coconut shell he finds a new world to ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Hitopadesa

    by M Narayana ...
    Composed between 800 and 950 AD, Narayana's Hitopadesa is one of the best-known of all works in Sanskrit literature. A fascinating collection of fables, maxims and sayings in verse, it combines a wide variety of writings from earlier authors in one volume - a 'garden of pleasing stories' created to provide guidance, wisdom and political advice to the reader. With elegance and great humour, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Epic of Gesar of Ling

    Gesar's Magical Birth, Early Years, and Coronation as King

    The epic of Gesar has been the national treasure of Tibet for almost a thousand years. An open canon of tales about a superhuman warrior-king, the epic is still a living oral tradition, included on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. This book is a translation of the beginning portion of this enormous corpus, covering all the events from Gesar’s divine ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Bangkok Bound

    With the acceleration of global migration, literature by migrant writers has emerged as a powerful medium for describing the ways in which global forces are experienced at the personal level. Migrant literature offers a compelling counter‐narrative to abstract visions of globalization, grounding large‐scale processes in real‐life stories of individuals.In Thailand, migrant writers have documented ... Read more

    $19.98 USD

  • Enlightened Individualism

    Buddhism and Hinduism in American Literature from the Beats to the Present

    Series series Literature, Religion, & Postsecular Stud
    Buddhism and Hinduism have spread in the US largely through texts and are now recognizable facets of American literature and culture. But the US has defined itself through goal-oriented individualism, whereas Buddhism and Hinduism teach that individuality is a delusion and thus worldly desires are misguided. Given this apparent contradiction, what can Buddhist and Hindu influences offer American ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Testimonio De Un Extranjero (Spanish Edition)

    El Testimonio de un extranjero" es una historia multicultural irresistible ambientada en el corazón de la comunidad expatriada en Chiang Mai, Tailandia. Es una historia de amor que atraviesa las divisiones étnicas y conlleva a una lección moral entre dos generaciones. El humor y la perspicacia se reflejan en esta historia brillantemente realizada por Moore ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Crescent Moon and Other Stories

    By The Nobel Prize Winning Author

    Rabindranath Tagore was an IndianBengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. Sometimes referred to as "the Bard of Bengal", Tagore's ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Kazi Nazrul Islam's Journalism

    A Critique

    by Arka Deb ...
    Celebrated as the national poet of Bangladesh and fondly commemorated in India as the 'Rebel Poet', Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899–1976) is widely known for his poetry and music, although his political philosophy and anti-colonial revolutionary sentiments are best expressed in his journalistic writings.Nazrul's journalistic career spans across three key newspapers: Nabajug, Dhumketu and Langol. ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • A Map of Longings

    The Life and Works of Agha Shahid Ali

    by Manan Kapoor ...
    The beautifully written first biography of one of the world’s finest twentieth-century poetsAgha Shahid Ali (1949–2001) was one of the most celebrated American poets of the latter twentieth century, and his works have touched millions of lives around the world. Traversing multiple geographies, cultures, religions, and traditions, he mapped the varied landscapes of the Indian subcontinent and the ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Reclaiming the Disabled Subject

    Representing Disability in Short Fiction (Volume 1)

    Mired inside its rather archaic comprehension as a medical phenomenon, disability, for a long time now, has been ignored as a marker of identity. The world has only been busy in rectifying the absences that have, ostensibly “dis-abled”, rather than accepting such impaired existences as human beings themselves. The volume intends to reclaim the representations of disability and present narratives ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Contemporary English-Language Indian Children’s Literature

    Representations of Nation, Culture, and the New Indian Girl

    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
    Concurrent with increasing scholarly attention toward national children’s literatures, Contemporary English-language Indian Children’s Literature explores an emerging body of work that has thus far garnered little serious critical attention. Superle critically examines the ways Indian children’s writers have represented childhood in relation to the Indian nation, Indian cultural identity, and ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Samuel Jonson

    Re-evaluation as a Critic

    This book offers an analyses of criticism by Jonson on five poets, obscure poets, contemporary critics, Shakespeare's comedies and tragedies both. This study is a re-evaluation of the criticism by Jonson made during the period English literature flowered and gave new direction to its readers. Contents C) Introduction ® On Milton, Dryden, Pope and Gray ® On Cowley, Collins, Waller, Denham & Other ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • In Stereotype

    South Asia in the Global Literary Imaginary

    Series series Literature Now
    In Stereotype confronts the importance of cultural stereotypes in shaping the ethics and reach of global literature. Mrinalini Chakravorty focuses on the seductive force and explanatory power of stereotypes in multiple South Asian contexts, whether depicting hunger, crowdedness, filth, slums, death, migrant flight, terror, or outsourcing. She argues that such commonplaces are crucial to defining ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Another Asia

    Rabindranath Tagore and Okakura Tenshin

    The book weaves through an intricate tapestry of ideas relating to pan-Asianism, nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and friendship, and positions the early modernist tensions of the period within—and against—the spectre of a unified Asia that concealed considerable political differences. The book draws on pan-Asian works such as The Ideals of the East and The Awakening of the East, in counterpoint to ... Read more

    $40.99 USD