A novel of resources and exploitation, of protest and compromise, of dreams and sacrifice, Rachel Heng‘s The Great Reclamation follows Ah Boon from boyhood—when his discovery of plentiful fish around mysterious islands shores up his fishing village—through World War II, Japanese…
The Millions Most Anticipated Book of 2020! “Beauty is beautiful in the way of a scalpel blade. It’s that sharp and precise, that lacerating, that true.” –Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Hours
“Like Japanese brush painting, the author’s simple, clear prose captures Miwako’s vulnerability and complexity…An eerie and elegant puzzle.” Kirkus Review What is your novel about? The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida (Soho Press) is a story of how a young…
Meng Jin’s debut, Little Gods (Custom House, 2020), is an elegant, haunting novel that lingers like an eerie song. What starts on a grand stage—in a maternity ward near Tiananmen Square, where a massacre is about to unfold—becomes an intimate…