Topic “Fiction”

Books: After the 1993 Mumbai Riots

The World We Found is Thrity Umrigar's sixth novel and a rumination on the effects of the '93 Mumbai riots on four friends.

By: Anisha Sridhar | Posted: Wed, Jan 11th- 12:46pm | Under: The World We Found, Thrity Umrigar, Books Section, Fiction, Reviews

10 Notable Asian American Books of 2011

Our books section writers read everything. Seriously. And if the book is calling Asian America's name, we are so on it.

By: Abigail Licad | Posted: Thu, Dec 15th- 11:53am | Under: A Tiger in the Kitchen, Amir, Cheryl Lu-Lien, Dhaka Dust, Dilruba Ahmed, Francis Fukuyama, GB Tran, Gregory White Smith, Inside Out and Back Again, Julie Otsuka, Khalil, Leche, R. Zamora Linmark, Samuel Park, Steven Naifeh, Thanhha Lai, The Buddha in the Attic, The Origins of Political Order, This Burns My Heart, Van Gogh: The Life, Vietnamerica, Zahras Paradise, Books Section, Comics, Fiction, Gift Guide, Reviews

Timothy Tau Wins Fourth-Annual Asian American Short Story Contest

Hyphen and The Asian American Writers’ Workshop have selected Timothy Tau as the 2011 Asian American Short Story Contest winner for “The Understudy,” a story about an Asian American actor trying to make it in Hollywood.

By: Caroline Kim-Brown | Posted: Tue, Nov 8th- 12:09am | Under: Fiction

Book Review: 'Leche' by R. Zamora Linmark

Fans of the Asian American classic Rolling the R's are in luck: R. Zamora Linmark's frenetic meditation on Hawaiian transnational teenagerhood is finally sequeled.

By: Claire Light | Posted: Sat, Nov 5th- 2:28pm | Under: Leche, R. Zamora Linmark, Books Section, Books, Fiction, Issue 24: Survival

Book Review: 'The Good Muslim' by Tahmima Anam

Tahmima Anam’s The Good Muslim narrates the aftermath of the birth of Bangladesh as a new nation in 1971.

By: Mosarrap Hossai... | Posted: Sat, Nov 5th- 2:29pm | Under: Books Section, Books, Fiction, Issue 24: Survival

Book Review: 'Partitions' by Amit Majmudar

It’s 1947, and the last trains bearing the displaced between the soon-to-be nations of India and Pakistan have left in the midst of raging floods of communal violence.

By: Nawaaz Ahmed | Posted: Sat, Nov 5th- 2:31pm | Under: Amit Majmudar, Partitions, Books Section, Books, Fiction, Issue 24: Survival

Top Three: Charles Yu

We asked Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Pantheon): What are the best stories of survival?

By: Charles Yu | Posted: Sat, Nov 5th- 1:12pm | Under: Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, Books Section, Books, Fiction, Issue 24: Survival

Books: Breakups and Sexual Malaise

There are no happy endings in Rahul Mehta’s collection of short stories, Quarantine.

By: Eric Zhang | Posted: Wed, Oct 12th- 10:36am | Under: Quarantine, Rahul Mehta, Books Section, Fiction, Reviews

Book Review: 'Mule' by Tony D'Souza

I put down Tony D'Souza's Mule: A Novel of Moving Weight at 2:30 am, two days after starting it.

By: Jenny Yap | Posted: Sun, Jan 22nd- 4:11am | Under: Mule, Tony D'Souza, Books Section, Fiction

Book Review: 'And Then' by Natsume Soseki

For anyone who has admitted to being more likely to think than to act, Japanese master Natsume Soseki's novel And Then will resonate keenly, even harshly.

By: Jane Y. Kim | Posted: Wed, Sep 7th- 11:56am | Under: And Then, Natsume Soseki, Books Section, Fiction

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