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Amitav Ghosh–THE GLASS PALACE

Exciting and unusual escape reading. Full of the colors, scents, and sounds of exotic Burma and Malaya in the 1860′s, this novel comes to life within the Glass Palace of the royal family and in the...

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Tash Aw–MAP OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD

“I was looking into writing a secret history of the Indonesian Islands in the Southeast, everything from Bali eastward.  To me those islands were like a lost world where everything remained true and...

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Tan Twan Eng–THE GARDEN OF EVENING MISTS

Note: This novel has been SHORTLISTED for the 2012 Man Booker Prize. “There is a goddess of Memory, Mnemosyne; but none of Forgetting. Yet there should be, as they are twin sisters, twin powers, and...

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