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GENERAL...... 3 Philosophy, , Religion & MEDICINE...... 25 & CENTRAL ASIA...... 5 Buddha...... 26 Khaled Hosseini...... 6 the Dalai Lama...... 27 War in Asia...... 29 ...... 7 General...... 29 Cao Xuequin...... 9 II...... 29 Jonathan D. Spence...... 10 Korean War...... 30 ...... 11 Vietnam War...... 30 Classics...... 12 Afghanistan & the Ramayana...... 13 the War on Terror...... 31 R. K. Narayan...... 15 Reference...... 31 Japan...... 16 Complete Idiot’s Guides...... 32 Murasaki Shikibu...... 17 travel Guides...... 32 natsume Soseki...... 18 index...... 33 Korea...... 18 College faculty SouthEast Asia...... 19 information service...... 37 Burma (Myanmar)...... 19 ...... 19 school and personal Laos, Thailand & Cambodia.... 19 copies order form...... 39 Philippines...... 20 examination Vietnam...... 21 copy order form...... 40 Tibet, & Bhutan...... 22 PENGUIN Asian-American...... 23 SPEAKERS BUREAU...... 41 hawaii...... 23 Amy Tan...... 25

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Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit Pamela Druckerman OCCIDENTALISM LUST IN TRANSLATION GENERAL The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies The Rules of Infidelity “[A] grandly illuminating study of two centuries of from Tokyo to Tennessee anti-Western ideas.”—Foreign Affairs. “Succinct, Druckerman investigated extramarital affairs Jon Lee Anderson elegant, and challenging...help[s] show that the around the world and discovered how different GUERRILLAS divide between the West and its enemies is an old cultures deal with adultery. For example, Japa- Journeys in the Insurgent World one.”—. nese businessman don’t believe it’s cheating if An extraordinary on-the-ground examination of Penguin • 176 pp. • 978-0-14-303487-2 • $15.00 they pay for sex. “Druckerman’s thoughtful and five significant insurgency groups around the See also: The China Lover, page 7 myth-busting study of infidelity deserves to be world—in Afghanistan, El Salvador, Burma, West- widely translated and read.”—The Economist. ern Sahara, and the Gaza Strip. “A resourceful, even James Canton, Ph.D. Penguin • 304 pp. • 978-0-14-311329-4 • $15.00 intrepid, piece of reportage.”— THE EXTREME FUTURE Book World. The Top Trends That Will Reshape Penguin • 288 pp. • 978-0-14-200497-5 • $17.00 the World in the Next 20 Years f Civilization A warning of the radical changes on the horizon, The West and the Rest Alan Beattie including how the rise of China will bring on a In this history of Western civilization’s rise to f False Economy global power struggle. global dominance, the renowned historian A Surprising of the World Plume • 384 pp. • 978-0-452-28866-9 • $16.00 explores how six powerful concepts—competi- “Beattie flies in the face of one of the most dearly tion, science, the rule of law, consumerism, mod- held ideas in the social sciences: that today’s eco- Steve Coll ern medicine, and the work ethic—allowed the nomic outcomes—which countries are rich and f On the Grand Trunk Road West to leap ahead of the Rest. which remain poor—have deep and largely A Journey into South Asia Penguin Press • 400 pp. • 978-1-59420-305-3 • $35.00 immutable roots in history, geography, or cul- Updated Edition THE WAR OF THE WORLD ture. Beattie’s narrative shows that there is plenty Coll’s trek across a socially and politically dam- Twentieth-Century Conflict of room for choices, and that history rewards aged South Asia, including journeys in India, and the Descent of the West those governments that make the correct Pakistan, , Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Ferguson tackles a paradox of the modern era— ones.”—, . Afghanistan—available for the first time in why unprecendented progress coincided with Riverhead • 368 pp. • 978-1-59448-444-5 • $16.00 paperback. unprecedented violence and why the seeming Penguin • 320 pp. • 978-0-14-311519-9 • $16.00 See also Ghost Wars, page 5 triumph of the West bore the seeds of its undo- Ian Bremmer ing. “A hugely ambitious panorama and moral f The End of the analysis of the military-industrial slaughter of Jared Diamond Who Wins the War the 20th century.”—The Times Book Between States and Corporations? f COLLAPSE Review. How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed An expert on the intersection between econom- Penguin • 880 pp. • 978-0-14-311239-6 • $20.00 Revised Edition ics and politics illustrates the rise of state capi- A New York Times Book of the Year talism and the threats it poses to the global New Afterword by the author economy. “An essential guide to the future of Considers the factors that caused some of the Charles Fishman the .”—David Smick, author of great civilizations of the past to collapse into f THE WAL-MART EFFECT The World Is Curved. ruin. Includes chapters on China, Japan and the How the World’s Most Powerful Polynesians on Easter Island. Also includes an Portfolio • 244 pp. • 978-1-59184-440-2 • $16.00 Company Really Works—and How It’s additional chapter featuring Diamond’s latest Transforming the American Economy John S. Burnett research. “Extraordinary in erudition and origi- Updated Edition DANGEROUS WATERS nality.”— Book Review. New Introduction by the author Modern Piracy and Terror on the High Seas Penguin • 608 pp. • 978-0-14-311700-1 • $18.00 A New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles “A must-read if one is even to begin understanding “[Burnett] hitches rides on two ships, a British Times, and Economist Book of the Year the global dominance of Wal-Mart.”—The Wash- carrier transporting crude oil from the Middle ington Post. Also includes a discussion guide. East to Western and Asian refineries, and a Penguin • 320 pp. • 978-0-14-303878-8 • $16.00 tanker carrying jet fuel and diesel oil to Viet- An Economist Book of the Year nam...and shares his research along the way.”— Publishers Weekly. Plume • 368 pp. • 978-0-452-28413-5 • $15.00

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Elizabeth Gilbert Alan MacFarlane and Iris MacFarlane Samantha Power EAT, PRAY, LOVE THE EMPIRE OF TEA CHASING THE FLAME One Woman’s Search for Everything The Remarkable History of the One Man’s Fight to Save the World Across Italy, India and Indonesia Plant That Took Over the World The Harvard professor and Pulitzer Prize-winner Penguin • 352 pp. • 978-0-14-303841-2 • $15.00 From Darjeeling to Lapsang Souchon, from India recounts the career of Sergio Vieira de Mello, the to Japan this is a concise, world-encompassing Brazilian humanitarian and U. N. who Doc Hendley exploration of how tea has shaped politics, cul- was killed in Iraq in 2003. “As a study of leader- f TO WATER ture, and the environment throughout history. ship, it ranks with the very best. As an analysis of A Bartender’s Quest to Overlook • 320 pp. • 978-1-59020-175-6 $14.95 how to respond to the struggles of the new era in Bring Clean Water to the World which we find ourselves, it is the defining work for A preacher’s son turned activist by way of - Mark Malloch-Brown our generation.”—Doris Kearns Goodwin. tending founded Wine to Water, a charity to f The Unfinished Global Revolution Penguin • 640 pp. • 978-0-14-311485-7 • $17.00 help stricken people repair and maintain water- The Road to International Cooperation A New York Times Book of the Year containment systems in places like Darfur, The former deputy secretary gen- Cambodia, , and Haiti—braving tribal eral offers a new vision for international coopera- Carne Ross warfare and natural disasters. tion. “Demonstrates that [Malloch-Brown] is one f THE LEADERLESS REVOLUTION Avery • 304 pp. • 978-1-58333-462-1 • $26.00 of the most influential thinkers today on how to How Ordinary People Will Take Power Available in January cope with the that is rapidly trans- and Change Politics in the 21st Century forming the world economy.”—Jagdish Bhagwati, A provocative book about how the world works Ed Husain . “Argue[s] for stronger, more and the mechanics of societal change. “So bold, THE ISLAMIST inclusive global institutions….[This] message so full of incontestable truths and overwhelm- Why I Became an Islamic Fundamentalist, should resonate in national and international dis- ing convictions, that it should be read by every What I Saw Inside, and Why I Left course for years to come.”—Kofi A. Annan, former diplomat, politician and thinking citizen with “This captivating and terrifyingly honest book United Nations Secretary-General. the courage to pick it up.”—John Le Carré, is…a wake-up call.”— (UK). “Persua- Penguin Press • 288 pp. • 978-1-59420-177-6 • $27.95 author of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. sive and stimulating.”—Martin Amis. Penguin • 272 pp. • 978-0-14-312083-4 • $16.00 Blue Rider Press • 192 pp. • 978-0-399-15872-8 • $23.00 Penguin • 304 pp. • 978-0-14-311598-4 • $16.00 Paperback available in February Available in February An Orwell Prize nominee Alexander Maitland Barbara H. Solomon, editor Eugene Linden f Wilfred Thesiger OTHER VOICES, OTHER VISTAS f The Ragged Edge of the World The Life of the Great Explorer Short Stories from Africa, China, Encounters at the Frontier A biography of perhaps the 20th century’s great- India, Japan, and Latin America Where Modernity, Wildlands, est explorer who journeyed for 60 years to some Introduction by the editor and Indigenous Peoples Meet of the remotest, most dangerous places on FROM CHINA: “The Destination” by Wang Anyi; Recounting his adventures among fast-chang- earth, from the mountains of western Asia to Sketches from the “Cattle Shed” by Ding Ling; “Kite ing frontiers—Vietnam, New Guinea and Bor- the marshes of Iraq. Streamers” by Wang Meng; “Regarding the Problem of Newborn Piglets in Winter” by Chen Rong; “The Man neo, pygmy forests and Machu Picchu, among Overlook • 544 pp. • 978-1-59020-163-3 • $35.00 others—the environmental journalist offers an From a Peddlers’ Family” by Lu Wenfu. FROM INDIA: “Pigeons at Daybreak”, by ; “Dhowli” by elegy for what has been lost and a celebration of John Perkins ; “The Interview” by Ruth Prawer those cultures resilient enough to maintain CONFESSIONS OF AN ECONOMIC HIT MAN Jhabvala; “A Horse and Two Goats” by R. K. Narayan; their vibrancy. Perkins exposes the little-known government “The Wog” by . FROM JAPAN: “The Viking • 256 pp. • 978-0-670-02251-9 • $26.95 and corporate activities that America has been Magic Chalk” by Kobo Abe; “The Tomoshibi” by Plume • 272 pp. • 978-0-452-29774-6 • $16.00 Sawako Ariyoshi; “The Moon on the Water” by Yasu- involved in since World War II, cheating regions Paperback available in April nari Kawabata; “Act of Worship” by Yukio Mishima; such as Indonesia and Latin America out of and “The Silent Traders” by Yoko Tsushima. money. “Here are the real-life details...of inter- Signet Classics • 480 pp. • 978-0-451-52840-7 • $8.95 Try Our online national skullduggery spun into a tale rivaling See also: Passages, page 16 Table of Contents feature the darkest espionage thriller.”—Greg Palast, Go to www.penguin.com/toc and search by author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. 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Jonathan Stevenson Steve Coll Learning from the Cold War THE BIN LADENS Rebuilding America’s Afghanistan, An Arabian Family in the American Century Strategic Vision in the 21st Century “A fascinating panorama…about a man and his Adding a fresh perspective to the debate about Pakistan & family [and] the powerful impact they have made America’s options in the “war on terror,” this on our times.”—The Washington Post. “The most lucid retrospective by one of the most admired Central Asia psychologically detailed portrait of the brutal voices in the national security arena answers an 9/11 mastermind yet.”—The New York Times. 8 important and largely ignored question: How pages of b/w photos. can the brilliance and energy of the great Cold Azhar Abidi Penguin • 688 pp. • 978-0-14-311481-9 • $18.00 War thinkers be recaptured and applied to the THE HOUSE OF BILQIS A New York Times and strategic challenges posed by transnational A haunting portrait of modern Pakistan in which Book of the Year terrorism? the aristocratic widow Bilqis mourns when her GHOST WARS Penguin • 320 pp. • 978-0-14-311574-8 • $17.00 only son, Samad, settles in Melbourne with his The Secret History of the CIA, Australian wife. Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Daniel Yergin Penguin • 224 pp. • 978-0-14-311657-8 • $14.00 Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 f The Quest “The finest historical narrative so far on the ori- Energy, Security, Jamil Ahmad of al Qaeda in the post-Soviet rubble of and the Remaking of the Modern World f The Wandering Falcon Afghanistan.”—The New York Times Book Review. “The definitive book on the most important of An acclaimed debut novel set in the wild frontier “The CIA itself would be hard put to beat his global issues: the quest for sustainable sources where Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan meet. grasp of global events.”—Ahmed Rashid, author of energy. Yergin, the preeminent energy expert “Superb. The work of a gifted storyteller who of Descent into Chaos. of our times, weaves together security and envi- has lived in the world of his fiction, and who Penguin • 720 pp. • 978-0-14-303466-7 • $17.00 ronmental concerns to explain the system we offers his readers rare insight, wisdom, and— Pulitzer Prize winner; Lionel Gelber Prize; 5th Annual Arthur Ross Award from the have today and to analyze the sensible paths above all—pleasure.”—Mohsin Hamid, author Council on Foreign Relations; a New York Times forward. This is one book you must read to of The Reluctant Fundamentalist. and Washington Post Book of the Year understand the future of our economy and our Riverhead • 256 pp. • 978-1-59448-827-6 • $25.95 way of life.”—Walter Isaacson, author of Einstein: ON THE GRAND TRUNK ROAD A Journey into South Asia His Life and Universe. Sarah Chayes See page 3 Penguin Press • 704 pp. • 978-1-59420-283-4 • $37.95 THE PUNISHMENT OF VIRTUE Inside Afghanistan After the Rosie Dastgir John D. Yohannan, editor “Brings to life the region’s rich history, complex f A SMALL FORTUNE A TREASURY OF ASIAN LITERATURE politics and proud ethnic Pashtun tribesmen.”— A debut novel that explores the loves, struggles, A collection spanning 250 years and encompass- The New York Times. “A passionate, involving, and tensions in the lives of an extended Paki- ing China, India, Arabia, Iran, and Japan. important work of journalism, informed by her stani family. Includes bibliographies and a chronology. independent travels in the areas of Afghanistan Riverhead • 384 pp. • 978-1-59448-810-8 • $25.95 Plume • 432 pp. • 978-0-452-01148-9 • $18.00 where few other reporters ventured.”—Steve Available in May Coll, author of Ghost Wars. “The most beautiful, sensitive, funny, perceptive and beautifully writ- Imtiaz Gul ten book you will ever read on Afghanistan, U.S. f The Most Dangerous Place policy, and nation building.”—Ahmed Rashid, Pakistan’s Lawless Frontier author of Jihad and Descent into Chaos. “An unparalleled inside view of the region where Penguin • 400 pp. • 978-0-14-311206-8 • $16.00 Join Penguin Group (USA) Inc.’s Al Qaeda lives and still thrives.”—Ahmed College Faculty Information Rashid, author of Descent into Chaos. “Gul brings Service for personal assistance his deep knowledge and reporting to on in selecting books for college Now you can E-MAIL your desk copy one of the world’s most opaque and under- courses. See the back of the request to Penguin Group (USA)’s reported places.”—Peter Bergen, author of Holy catalog for more information, Academic Marketing Department War, Inc. or go to: to save time: [email protected]. Penguin • 320 pp. • 978-0-14-311921-0 • $16.00 www.penguin.com/facinfo Or FAX to: 212-366-2933

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Dilip Hiro Greg Mortenson and Mike Bryan INSIDE CENTRAL ASIA f STONES INTO SCHOOLS A Political, Economic, Military, and Khaled Promoting Peace with Cultural Portrait of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikstan, Hosseini Foreword by Khaled Hosseini THE KITE RUNNER and Their Neighbors, and Iran Picks up where Three Cups of Tea left off and “This is one of those unforgettable stories A comprehensive history of the part of the offers a candid look at the current political and that stay with you for years. All the great world—predominately Muslim—currently mak- social situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan. themes of literature and of life are the fabric ing headlines. Penguin • 448 pp. • 978-0-14-311823-7 • $16.00 Overlook • 480 pp. • 978-1-59020-221-0 • $35.00 of this extraordinary novel: love, honor, guilt, fear redemption...It is so powerful that for a THREE CUPS OF TEA long time everything I read after seemed One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace Steve Inskeep bland.”—Isabel Allende. …One School at a Time f Instant City Riverhead • 371 pp. • 978-1-59448-000-3 • $16.00 After a failed attempt to climb K2, the ailing Life and Death in • Teacher’s guide available at: author wandered into a nearby village. Over the “It will interest anyone who wants to understand http://us.penguingroup.com/tguides next 10 years he helped build schools for girls in the is fighting, as well as f Graphic Novel Pakistan and Afghanistan. anyone worried about the future of Pakistan, Penguin • 352 pp. • 978-0-14-303825-2 • $15.00 which may be the most important question fac- Illustrated by Fabio Celoni and Mirka Andolfo ing the world today....Instant City is the Friday In this beautifully illustrated graphic novel Ahmed Rashid Night Lights of terrorism.”—Thomas E. Ricks, adaptation, Hosseini brings his compelling f Pakistan on the Brink author of Fiasco. story to a new generation of readers. Riverhead • 136 pp. • 978-1-59448-547-3 • $19.00 The Future of America, Penguin Press • 288 pp. • 978-1-59420-315-2 • $27.95 Pakistan, and Afghanistan A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS In this follow-up to Descent into Chaos, Rashid Gautam Malkani Born a generation apart, Mariam and Laila are focuses on the long-term problems as the world LONDONSTANI two Afghan women brought together by war, tries to bring some stability to a fractured region “Deciphering the multiple layers of this [debut] loss, and fate. “Hosseini’s bewitching narrative saddled with a legacy of violence and corruption. novel...offers a worthy reward, both in its deli- captures the intimate details of life in a world Viking • 256 pp. • 978-0-670-02346-2 • $26.95 cious surprise ending…and in the deeper mean- Available in March where it’s a struggle to survive, skillfully insert- ing it imparts to easy catchwords such as “assimi- ing this human story into the larger backdrop DESCENT INTO CHAOS lation” and “multiculturalism.”—Christian Science of recent history.”—San Francisco Chronicle. The U. S. and the Disaster in Monitor. “Brings a minority British culture into Riverhead • 432 pp. • 978-1-59448-385-1 • $16.00 Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia the mainstream literary world.”—Newsday. An analysis of the crisis in Pakistan and the Penguin • 352 pp. • 978-0-14-311228-0 • $19.00 renewed radicalism threatening Afghanistan and the West. “[A] powerful and important Patricia McArdle book.”—Daniel White, Wilkes Honors College. f The Khaled Hosseini Foundation FARISHTA Penguin • 544 pp. • 978-0-14-311557-1 • $18.00 A semi-autobiographical debut story of a wid- SOS (Student Outreach for Shelters) is a A Financial Times Book of the Year owed female American diplomat posted to a service-learning program that guides Also available: Jihad 978-0-14-200260-5 remote corner of northern Afghanistan. “Based teachers and students through Khaled on her experiences as a Foreign Service officer in Hosseini’s novels and provides students David Rohde and Kristen Mulvihill f Afghanistan, McArdle writes insightfully about the opportunity to build permanent A Rope and a Prayer the quagmire in that country and the human cost shelters for homeless refugees returning The Story of a Kidnapping of war.”—Publishers Weekly. to Afghanistan. When the New York Times reporter is kidnapped Riverhead • 384 pp. • 978-1-59448-796-5 • $25.95 by the Taliban in 2008, his wife of two months Riverhead • 416 pp. • 978-1-59448-578-7 • $16.00 To learn more, visit: struggles to navigate the of issues that Paperback available in June www.KhaledHosseiniFoundation.org confront the relatives of hostages. 8-page 4-color insert, 1 map. Penguin • 384 pp. • 978-0-14-312005-6 • $16.00

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Ali Sethi Robert Bickers THE WISH MAKER f THE SCRAMBLE FOR CHINA “An engaging family saga, an absorbing coming- CHINA Foreign Devils of-age story, and an illuminating look at one of in the Qing Empire, 1832-1914 the world’s most turbulent regions....Sethi A British historian examines how China con-

steadfastly resists the usual clichés about both THE CLASSIC OF MOUNTAINS AND SEAS fronted and adapted to European, American, Islam and his native country. Instead, he offers a Translated with an and Japanese imperial power in the late Qing Introduction and Notes by Anne Birrell nuanced, often humorous, and always novel dynasty and its immediate aftermath. “Compel- look at life in modern day Pakistan.”—Khaled The first complete, annotated edition of this lingly erudite and clear-sighted.”—Sunday Times Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner. ancient source of Chinese mythology narrates (UK). Riverhead • 464 pp. • 978-1-59448-463-6 • $16.00 episodes of 204 mythical figures. Penguin UK • 512 pp. • 978-0-71399749-1 • $45.00 Penguin Classics • 336 pp. • 978-0-14-044719-4 • $19.00 Mukhamet Shayakhmetov Bertolt Brecht THE SILENT STEPPE Aminta Arrington THE GOOD PERSON OF SZECHWAN f The Memoir of a Kazakh Nomad Under Stalin HOME IS A ROOF OVER A PIG Translated by John Willett Translated by Jan Butler An American Family’s Journey in China Edited with an Introduction by “The fascinating, tragic, forgotten story of the The story of one American family’s two-year John Willett and Ralph Manheim Kazakh nomads of central Asia under Stalin’s encounter with China and how it transformed Introduction by Norm Roessler brutal rule…an unusual and special book.”— them. Foreword by Carl Weber Simon Sebag Montefiore, author ofYoung Stalin. Overlook • 320 pp. • 978-1-59020-899-1 • $26.95 When three gods come to earth in search of a Available in August Overlook • 360 pp. • 978-1-58567-955-3 • $35.00 thoroughly good person, they encounter Shen Teh, a goodhearted but penniless prostitute, John Balcom, editor Nahal Tajadod who offers them shelter. Rewarded with enough f Short Stories in Chinese RUMI: THE FIRE OF LOVE money to open a tobacco shop she soon becomes New Penguin Parallel Text A Novel so overwhelmed by the demands of people seek- A dual-language edition of eight Chinese sto- Brings to life the story of Rumi, the Sufi poet ing assistance that she invents a male alter ego ries—many appearing in English for the first born in ancient Afghanistan who, since the 13th to deal ruthlessly with the business of living in time and featuring many diverse themes and century, has mesmerized the world. an evil world. styles by both new and established writers. Overlook • 326 pp. • 978-1-59020-080-3 • $26.95 Penguin Classics • 160 pp. • 978-0-14-310537-4 • $11.00 Includes a story by Li Rui about the honest sim- plicity of a Shanxi farmer to a story by Ma Yuan Ian Buruma Freddie Wilkinson exposing the seamy underside of contemporary f THE CHINA LOVER One Mountain Thousand Summits urban society. Buruma uses the life of starlet Yamaguchi Yoshiko The Untold Story of Penguin • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-311835-0 • $17.00 Tragedy and True Heroism on K2 Available in February as a lens through which to understand the lure of When eleven men perished on the slopes of K2 erotic fantasies in the conquest of nations. “Buru- in 2008, none of the surviving climbers could ma’s far-ranging knowledge of the wrenching Joe Bennett transformations of the Japanese worldview in explain what happened. The truth lies with four WHERE UNDERPANTS COME FROM the twentieth century makes this a deeply fasci- Sherpa guides whose heroic efforts saved the From Checkout to Cotton Fields— lives of at least four climbers. Travels Through the New China nating novel.”—Liza Dalby, author of Geisha. NAL • 336 pp. • 978-0-451-23119-2 • $24.95 and Into the New Global Economy Penguin • 400 pp. • 978-0-14-311608-0 • $16.00 See also: Occidentalism, page 3 Buying a package of absurdly inexpensive under- wear spurs the author on an odyssey to the fac- May-lee Chai and Winberg Chai tory of the world, China, where he discovers the CHINA A TO Z For instructions on requesting permission intricate web of contacts that makes global trade to photocopy Penguin Group (USA) titles, for Everything You Need to Know to coursepacks and for general classroom use go possible. “Bennett’s education in the world of Understand Chinese Customs and Culture to: www.penguin.com/permissions or call the global commerce sparkles with humor and sharp Plume • 304 pp. • 978-0-452-28887-4 • $16.00 Copyright Clearance Center at 978-750-8400 observations.”—Publishers Weekly. Overlook • 256 pp. • 978-1-59020-336-1 • $14.95

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Andy Raskin THE RAMEN KING AND I How the Inventor of Instant Natsume sO¯ seki KOREA Noodles Fixed My Love Life f Kokoro Struggling to overcome chronic relationship Newly Translated with an problems, an American journeys to Japan seek- Introduction and Notes by Meredith McKinney Blaine Harden f ing guidance from Momofuku Ando—the father In the most famous novel by the father of mod- ESCAPE FROM CAMP 14 of instant ramen noodles. “Raskin has an insid- ern Japanese fiction, the elderly Sensei reveals One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West er’s perspective on male desire and Japanese to his young disciple the tragic secrets that culture, and a keen eye for the delicate, heart- have cast a shadow over his life. “This elegant The story of Shin Dong-hyuk, one of the few breaking absurdities of both.”—Ruth Ozeki, novel of the Meiji period captures the opening people born in a North Korean political prison author of My Year of Meats. in Japanese Confucian culture and the to have escaped and survived. Viking • 256 pp. • 978-0-670-02332-5 • $26.95 Gotham • 304 pp. • 978-1-592-40554-1 • $16.00 250-year-old Tokugawa shogunate to the West Available in April and Western culture.”—Los Angeles Times. Jeff Ryan Penguin Classics 240 pp. • 978-0-14-310603-6 • $15.00 Nora Okja Keller f Super Mario f SanshirŌ COMFORT WOMAN How Nintendo Conquered America Translated by Jay Rubin The story of how a quintessentially Japanese “Keller skillfully mingles the Asian past with the Introduction by Haruki Murakami American present.”—Newsweek. company became the most successful franchise A coming-of-age novel about a 23-year-old in the history of gaming and has continually set Penguin • 224 pp. • 978-0-14-026335-0 • $14.00 protagonist who leaves the sleepy countryside American Book Award winner the standard for video-game innovation in to attend university in Tokyo. FOX GIRL America. Penguin Classics • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-045562-5 • $16.00 Portfolio • 320 pp. • 978-1-59184-405-1 • $26.95 “Disturbing, riveting and necessary...the tale of KUSAMAKURA throwaway children and prostitutes stranded in Translated with an Hiroaki Sato the aftermath of the Korean War.”—Los Angeles Introduction by Meredith McKinney f LEGENDS OF THE SAMURAI Times. A haiku-style novel that follows the meander- “The value of this work lies in the way it illumi- Penguin • 320 pp. • 978-0-14-200196-7 • $16.00 ings of a young artist as he attempts an exper- nates a non-Western cultural tradition....It iment—to observe all he sees with a detached offers a rare look into the mindset of Japan’s Richard E. Kim aesthetic eye. warrior aristocracy.”—Library Journal. f The Martyred Penguin Classics • 192 pp. • 978-0-14-310519-0 • $15.00 Overlook • 432 pp. • 978-0-87951-619-2 • $40.00 Introduction by Heinz Insu Fenkl Overlook • 432 pp. • 978-1-59020-730-7 • $19.95 Foreword by Susan Choi Paperback available in March Sherrill Back in print for the first time in 25 years. Dur- DOG MAN ing the early weeks of the Korean War, Captain Lady Sarashina An Uncommon Life in a Faraway Mountain Lee, a young South Korean officer, is ordered to AS I CROSSED A BRIDGE OF DREAMS How one man’s passion for dogs saved the Akita investigate the mass murder of North Korean Recollections of a breed from extinction. “A portrait of Japan few ministers by Communist forces. For propaganda Woman in 11th-Century Japan outsiders see.”—Los Angeles Times. purposes, the priests are declared martyrs, but Translated with an Introduction by Ivan Morris Riverhead • 256 pp. • 978-1-59448-390-5 • $16.00 as he delves into the crime, Lee finds himself Born in 1008 at the height of the Heian period, asking: What if they were not martyrs? “An the pseudonymous Lady Sarashina reveals much extraordinary book.”—Pearl S. Buck. Zeami about the Japanese literary tradition in this – Penguin Classics • 240 pp. • 978-0-14-310640-1 • $16.00 JAPANESE NO DRAMAS haunting self-portrait. National Book Award finalist Translated with an Introduction by Royall Tyler Penguin Classics • 176 pp. • 978-0-14-044282-3 • $15.00 These 24 plays, including works by Zeami (1363- 1443) show the intricate fusion of music, dance, For instructions on requesting permission costume, and language of one of the most to photocopy Penguin Group (USA) titles, for coursepacks and for general classroom use go sophisticated art forms ever developed. to: www.penguin.com/permissions or call the Penguin Classics • 384 pp. • 978-0-14-044539-8 • $17.00 Copyright Clearance Center at 978-750-8400

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Chang-rae Lee INDONESIA f The Surrendered “Captures so perfectly the haunted unease that SouthEast limns so many immigrant lives and this novel, Christopher J. Koch about an orphanage in post-War Korea...looks to Asia THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY be Lee’s epic masterpiece.”—Junot Díaz, author A tale of political turmoil in mid-twentieth-cen- of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. tury Indonesia. “Well conceived and beautifully Riverhead • 496 pp. • 978-1-59448-501-5 • $16.00 BURMA (MYANMAR) executed.”—Larry McMurtry. See also: A Gesture Life and Native Speaker, page 24 Penguin • 288 pp. • 978-0-14-006535-0 • $15.00

Jid Lee Aung San Suu Kyi Multatuli f To Kill A Tiger f FREEDOM FROM FEAR and Other Writings MAX HAVELAAR, A Memoir of Korea Revised Edition or, The Coffee Auctions of “Part memoir, part social history, To Kill a Tiger Edited by Michael Aris the Dutch Trading Company seamlessly ties together Jid Lee’s moving per- Forewords by Václav Havel and Translated with Notes by Roy Edwards sonal narrative of girlhood in and Archbishop Desmond Tutu Introduction by R. P. Meijer the story of Korea’s traumatic modern history A collection of writings from the Nobel Peace One of the most forceful indictments of colo- of division, colonization, and war, and of South Prize–winning activist. nialism ever written, Havelaar tells of a civil ser- Korea’s tumultuous road to democracy.”—Grace Penguin • 432 pp. • 978-0-14-103949-7 • $17.00 vant in Java who champions the cause of a M. Cho, author of Haunting the Korean Diaspora: f LETTERS FROM BURMA native population brutally exploited by a local Shame, Secrecy, and the Forgotten War. Revised Edition prince and Dutch commercial interests. Overlook • 320 pp. • 978-1-59020-266-1 • $25.95 Introduction by Fergal Keane Penguin Classics • 352 pp. • 978-0-14-044516-9 • $16.00 From her six years of imprisonment in Rangoon, Krys Lee the author paints a vivid and optimistic picture f DRIFTING HOUSE of her native land, displaying her vision and LAOS, THAILAND An unflinching portrayal of the Korean immi- commitment to political and ethnic harmony. grant experience from a new talent in fiction. Penguin • 384 pp. • 978-0-14-104144-5 • $16.00 & CAMBODIA “What wonderful and haunting worlds Krys Lee illuminates—a goose for a goose father, a sym- Emma Larkin Alice Pung pathetic wife made bold by her husband’s infi- f No Bad News for the King UNPOLISHED GEM delity—all facets of a Korea and a Korean Amer- The True Story of Cyclone Nargis My Mother, My Grandmother, and Me ica made new by this exciting writer’s entrancing and Its Aftermath in Burma vision.”—Janice Y.R. Lee, author of The Piano Pung’s family fled to Australia to escape the kill- Chronicles the days after Cyclone Nargis in 2008, Teacher. ing fields of Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge. “A revealing the secretive politics of Burma’s mili- Viking • 224 pp. • 978-0-670-02325-7 • $25.95 sophisticated and fiercely intelligent book.”— Available in February tary dictatorship and the combination of vicious Helen Garner, author of Postcards from Surfers. military force, religion, and mysticism that Plume • 288 pp. • 978-0-452-29000-6 • $15.00 defined its poor response to this horrific event. Cullen Thomas “Larkin has no equal with her intimate knowl- BROTHER ONE CELL John Shors edge and depth of experience about Burma.”— f An American Coming of Age CROSS CURRENTS José Ramos-Horta, president of East Timor. in South Korea’s Prisons Thailand’s pristine Ko Phi Phi island attracts Penguin • 288 pp. • 978-0-14-311961-6 • $16.00 “Thomas lyrically describes his Zenlike effort to tourists from around the world. There, strug- stay sane through shoe-factory work and prison FINDING GEORGE ORWELL IN BURMA gling to make ends meet, small-resort owners basketball.”—Outside. “An offbeat coming-of- A revelatory reconnaissance of modern Burma, Lek and Sarai give an American named Patch age story…told simply, and with extraordinary one of the world’s grimmest police states, using room and board in exchange for his help. But good humor.”—The New York Times. as its compass the life and work of Orwell. “A when Patch’s brother arrives with his girlfriend, Penguin • 368 pp. • 978-0-14-311311-9 • $15.00 truer picture of authoritarianism than anyone the couple learns that Patch is running from the A Kiriyama Prize Notable Book has written since, perhaps, Orwell himself.”— law, and his presence puts their family at risk. Mother Jones. NAL • 352 pp. • 978-0-451-23460-5 • $15.00 Penguin • 304 pp. • 978-0-14-303711-8 • $16.00 Also available: The Wishing Trees 978-0-451-23113-0, Beneath a Marble Sky 978-0-451-21846-9, Beside a Burning Sea 978-0-451-22492-7 See also: Dragon House, page 21

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PHILIPPINES Tess Uriza Holthe Pramoedya WHEN THE ELEPHANTS DANCE “Inspired by her father, who grew up in the Phil- Ananta Toer Rafe Bartholomew ippines under the Japanese occupation during f WWII, first-time novelist Holthe writes about “Indonesia’s Albert Camus.” PACIFIC RIMS the experience from a variety of civilian per- —San Francisco Chronicle Beermen Ballin’ in Flip-Flops and the Philippines’ spectives....Presents personal, pointed frag- Unlikely Love Affair with Basketball ments that clearly demonstrate history’s cul- IT’S NOT AN ALL NIGHT FAIR The author spends a season inside the locker tural and personal fallout.”—Publishers Weekly. Translated by Mark Hanusz room of a Philippine professional team, dines Penguin • 384 pp. • 978-0-14-200288-9 • $16.00 For the first time in English, a story of a son with politicians who exploit hoops for electoral returning home to central Java to confront success, travels with a troupe of midgets and Gregg Jones the fact of his father’s death. transsexuals who play exhibition games at rural f HONOR IN THE DUST Penguin • 112 pp. • 978-0-14-303702-6 • $12.00 fiestas, and even acts in a local soap opera. , ALL THAT IS GONE “Wonderfully written and conceived: A white War in the Philippines, and the Translated by Willem Samuels man walks the earth with a basketball and dis- Rise and Fall of America’s Imperial Dream The first collection of short fiction available in covers a society so colorful it almost sounds The Spanish-American War would forever English. “Simply, elegantly traces an emerging make-believe.”—James McBride, author of The change America’s standing in global affairs, and political consciousness....The writing flows as if Color of Water. drive the young nation into its own imperial in real time.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review. NAL • 400 pp. • 978-0-451-23322-6 • $15.00 showdown in the Philippines. Penguin • 272 pp. • 978-0-14-303446-9 • $15.00 NAL • 448 pp. • 978-0-451-22904-5 • $26.95 Luis H. Francia Available in February THE BURU QUARTET f Translated with Introductions by Max Lane A History of the Philippines The Biography of a Country José Rizal “A complex and colorful batik of political, An in-depth narrative of the Philippines, from f El Filibusterismo intellectual, and social life in the Dutch East before the first colonial settlement to today. Translated with an Indies at the turn of the 20th century.”—The Overlook • 400 pp. • 978-1-59020-285-2 • $35.00 Introduction and Notes by Harold Augenbraum New York Times Book Review. Rizal’s continuation of Noli Me Tangere is a stun- THIS EARTH OF MANKIND Jessica Hagedorn ning account of Filipino resistance to colonial “Engaging, memorable, mysterious, and com- DOGEATERS rule that still resonates today. pelling...both a powerful love story and a tale A fictional portrayal of Manila in the heyday of Penguin Classics • 352 pp. • 978-0-14-310639-5 • $16.00 of a young man’s growing maturity in a land Ferdinand Marcos. “Hagedorn transcends social NOLI ME TANGERE (TOUCH ME NOT) corrupted by political repression.”—The Wash- strata, gender, culture, and politics in this exu- Translated with an Introduction ington Post Book World. berant, witty, and telling portrait.”—The San and Notes by Harold Augenbraum Penguin • 368 pp. • 978-0-14-025635-2 • $16.00 Diego Union. The novel that sparked the Philippine revolution. CHILD OF ALL NATIONS Penguin • 272 pp. • 978-0-14-014904-3 • $15.00 “Rizal’s rich, moving novel...[is] perhaps the most “Focuses on Minke, a young, European-schooled DREAM JUNGLE important novel in Philippine literature.”—Jessica Javanese writer—an ‘educated native’—fight- “Scrupulously documents its chosen time and Hagedorn, author of Dogeaters. ing for his rights in the Dutch East Indies at the place: the Marcos-controlled Philippines of the Penguin Classics • 464 pp. • 978-0-14-303969-3 • $17.00 turn of the century.”—Booklist. 1970’s....Dogeaters and Dream Jungle stand Penguin • 352 pp. • 978-0-14-025633-8 • $16.00 together like installments in a single panoramic FOOTSTEPS Philippine historical epic.”—The New York Times Join Penguin Group (USA) Inc.’s “Minke embarks on a personal odyssey of self- Book Review. College Faculty Information discovery, emerging as an active participant Penguin • 336 pp. • 978-0-14-200109-7 • $16.00 Service for personal assistance in the movement for self-determination.... Also available: The Gangster of Love 978-0-14-015970-7 in selecting books for college See also: Toxicology, page 24 Stunning historical fiction.”—Booklist. courses. See the back of the Penguin • 480 pp. • 978-0-14-025634-5 • $17.00 catalog for more information, or go to: HOUSE OF GLASS www.penguin.com/facinfo “One of the most ambitious undertakings in postwar world literature.”—. Penguin • 384 pp. • 978-0-14-025679-6 • $17.00

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VIETNAM Le Ly Hayslip with Jay Wurts Bao Ninh WHEN HEAVEN AND THE SORROW OF WAR EARTH CHANGED PLACES A Novel of North Vietnam Lan Cao A Vietnamese Woman’s Translated by Frank Palmos and MONKEY BRIDGE Journey from War to Peace Phan Thanh Hao “One of the finest dramatizations of the experi- “Should not be missed by anyone....No one who The author, a former North Vietnamese soldier, ences of Vietnamese refugees in the U.S. Lan reads it will ever be able to think about the Viet- provides a strikingly honest look at how the was airlifted out of Saigon in 1975, and she has nam War in quite the same way again.”—The Vietnam War forever changed his life, his coun- transformed her prismatic memories into a Washington Post. try, and the people who live there. stunning and powerful drama.”—Booklist. Plume • 400 pp. • 978-0-452-27168-5 • $17.00 Riverhead • 240 pp. • 978-1-57322-543-4 • $15.00 Penguin • 272 pp. • 978-0-14-026361-9 • $15.00 Duong Thu Huong Katherine Paterson f Denise Chong THE ZENITH PARK’S QUEST THE GIRL IN THE PICTURE Translated by “Paterson offers her young readers a glimpse of The Story of Kim Phuc, Stephen B. Young and Hoa P. Young the Vietnam War from what might be consid- the Photograph, and the Vietnam War An ambitious novel about the thirst for absolute ered the next generation, the children of veter- The story of how one of the most iconic photo- power as told through a real yet larger-than-life ans, those for whom Vietnam is a vague histori- graphs came to be—and what happened to Kim historical figure: Chairman Ho Chi Minh. “A cal event that has nevertheless somehow Phuc after it was taken. “A primer if not the grand, lyrical work that unfolds between the changed their lives.”—The New York Times. definitive text for those trying to understand darkness of the present and the soft lighting of Puffin Children’s • 160 pp. • 978-0-14-034262-8 • $5.99 the Vietnam War.”—Kirkus Reviews. 8 pp. b/w the past….It is also a stunning reflection on the photos. tragedy of power when it is taken hostage by John Shors Penguin • 400 pp. • 978-0-14-028021-0 • $17.00 totalitarian ideologies.”—L’Express. DRAGON HOUSE Viking • 576 pp. • 978-0-670-02375-2 • $32.95 Tells the tale of Iris and Noah—two Available in August Camilla Gibb who, as a way of healing their own painful pasts, f The Beauty of Humanity Movement MEMORIES OF A PURE SPRING open a center to house and educate Vietnamese An art curator who is Vietnamese by birth but Translated by Phan Huy Duong street children. who has lived most of her life in the United and Nina McPherson NAL • 384 pp. • 978-0-451-22785-0 • $15.00 States, Maggie returns to her country of origin A portrait of modern Vietnam and its people in search of clues to her dissident father’s disap- who struggle to survive under the complexities of Robert Templer pearance. “Gibb fluidly takes the reader from the a postwar regime. “A kind of Vietnamese Farewell SHADOWS AND WIND bitter years of war to the Hanoi that has emerged to Arms.”—The New York Times. A View of Modern Vietnam in the reform era, which, despite all its moderniza- Penguin • 368 pp. • 978-0-14-029843-7 • $17.00 “A meticulous and fascinating investigation.... Also available: Novel Without a Name 978-0-14-025510-2 tion, is still a mystery to many of us.”—Booklist. For anyone interested in the real legacy of the Penguin Press • 288 pp. • 978-1-59420-280-3 • $25.95 Vietnam War, this book should be compulsory Penguin • 320 pp. • 978-0-14-312060-5 • $16.00 Stanley Karnow reading.”—The Guardian (UK). Paperback available in March VIETNAM: A History Penguin • 400 pp. • 978-0-14-028597-0 • $17.00 Revised Edition Graham Greene “Balanced in interpretation...immensely read- THE QUIET AMERICAN able and full of new details.”—George Herring, Now you can E-MAIL your desk copy Deluxe Edition University of Kentucky. Photos. request to Penguin Group (USA)’s Introduction by Robert Stone Penguin • 784 pp. • 978-0-14-026547-7 • $22.00 Academic Marketing Department Penguin Classics • 208 pp. • 978-0-14-303902-0 • $16.00 to save time: [email protected]. Or FAX to: 212-366-2933

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David Crow Matteo Pistono IN SEARCH OF THE MEDICINE BUDDHA f In the Shadow of the Buddha TIBET, A Himalayan Journey One Man’s Journey of Discovery in Tibet “In this exhaustive study of the complexities of Disillusioned by a career in American politics, Bhutan & Ayurvedic medicine, the author chronicles his the author goes to the Himalayas looking for a of study with traditional Nepalese doc- simpler way of life—and soon is carrying mes- Nepal tors and explores the depth and mystery of sages to Tibet from the Dalai Lama in India and Tibetan healing practices.”—Booklist. hard evidence to the world of atrocities by the Tarcher • 350 pp. • 978-1-58542-107-7 • $16.95 Chinese government. “Part spy thriller, part THE TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD Dharma travelogue, part spiritual autobiogra- Deluxe Edition Mikel Dunham phy.”—Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Translated by Gyurme Dorje BUDDHA’S WARRIORS Intelligence. Edited by Graham Coleman with Thupten Jinpa The Story of the CIA-Backed Tibetan Dutton • 304 pp. • 978-0-525-95119-3 • $25.95 Introductory Commentary by Freedom Fighters, the Chinese Communist Plume • 288 pp. • 978-0-452-29751-7 • $16.00 His Holiness The Dalai Lama Invasion, and the Ultimate Fall of Tibet Paperback available in February “The most celebrated and widely read work of Foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama Tibetan literature outside Tibet...now in its finest Tarcher • 416 pp. • 978-1-58542-348-4 • $29.95 Tsering Shakya and most complete form in this excellent English THE DRAGON IN THE LAND OF SNOWS translation.”—Tricycle. “One of the great scripts Heinrich Harrer A History of Modern Tibet Since 1947 of world civilization...a voyage inside the pro- SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET “A deeply insightful and thorough account... found imagination of a people, immaculately ren- Deluxe Edition likely to be the definitive history of modern dered in an English both graceful and precise.”— In this vivid memoir that has sold millions of Tibet for a generation or more.”—The New York Time Out (UK). 16 pp. color photos. copies worldwide, Harrer recounts his adven- Times Book Review. 8 pp. b/w photos. Penguin Classics • 592 pp. • 978-0-14-310494-0 • $21.00 tures as one of the first Europeans ever to enter Penguin • 608 pp. • 978-0-14-019615-3 • $18.00 Tibet and encounter the Dalai Lama. Ian Baker Tarcher • 368 pp. • 978-1-58542-743-7 • $14.95 Tetsu Saiwai THE HEART OF THE WORLD Also available: The White : The Classic f The 14th Dalai Lama Account of the Ascent of the Eiger 978-0-87477-940-0 A Journey to the Last Secret Place A Manga Biography Introduction by His Holiness the Dalai Lama See page 27 Tsangnyön Heruka “One of the most extraordinary tales of adven- f THE LIFE OF MILAREPA ture and discovery ever told…an exploration Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck, Newly Translated by Andrew Quintman into the heart of Tibetan Buddhism.”—San Queen of Bhutan Introduction by Donald S. Lopez, Jr. Francisco Chronicle. TREASURES OF THE THUNDER DRAGON Penguin • 544 pp. • 978-0-14-303602-9 • $17.00 A new translation of the classic biography of the A Portrait of Bhutan most renowned saint in Tibetan Buddhist history. Bhutan was virtually closed to the world until Penguin Classics • 352 pp. • 978-0-14-310622-7 • $17.00 Kunzang Choden the 1960s and even today little is known about THE CIRCLE OF KARMA Translated with an this Himalayan Buddhist kingdom. Here, the Queen paints a captivating blend of personal The first novel by a woman from the small kingdom Introduction by Lobsang P. Lhalungpa memoir, history, folklore, and travelogue. of Bhutan, providing a complex tapestry of ritual Both a portrait of the 11th-century saint and a Penguin India • 224 pp. • 978-0-670-99901-9 • $19.95 life in a relatively unknown part of the world. “An guidebook to the search for consciousness. unforgettable tale of a simple women’s pilgrimage Penguin • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-019350-3 • $16.00 and journey to self-realization.”—Hindu. Jamie Zeppa Penguin India • 328 pp. • 978-81-86-70679-4 • $14.00 Peter Matthiessen BEYOND THE SKY AND EARTH THE SNOW LEOPARD A Journey into Bhutan Introduction by Pico Iyer “Zeppa’s book suggests what other contempo- rary travel books do not: that there are still a few For instructions on requesting permission The story of a spiritual journey through the to photocopy Penguin Group (USA) titles, for Himalayas. “A magical book, a kind of lunar par- places left in the world so strange and wondrous coursepacks and for general classroom use go adigm and map of the sacred.”—The Nation. B/w that a journey there has the power to transform to: www.penguin.com/permissions or call the illustrations and maps throughout. the traveler, even against her will.”—The New Copyright Clearance Center at 978-750-8400 Penguin Classics • 368 pp. • 978-0-14-310551-0 • $16.00 York Times Book Review. National Book Award Riverhead • 320 pp. • 978-1-57322-815-2 • $16.00

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BIN LADENS, THE...... 5 CLASSIC OF MOUNTAINS DRAGON IN THE FOUR HOURS IN MY LAI...... 31 Bissell, William Nanda...... 11 AND SEAS, THE...... 7 LAND OF SNOWS, THE...... 22 FOX GIRL...... 18 Index BITTER FRUIT...... 13 CLIMBING THE STAIRS...... 16 DRAGON’S VILLAGE, THE...... 8 Francia, Luis H...... 20 BLUE HAND, A...... 11 Coleman, Graham...... 26 DREAMER AWAKES, THE...... 9 Frank, Richard B...... 17 COLLAPSE...... 3 DREAM JUNGLE...... 20 14TH DALAI BOAT TO FREEDOM FROM FEAR...... 19 LAMA, THE...... 27 REDEMPTION, THE...... 10 Coll, Steve...... 3, 5 DRIFTING HOUSE...... 19 French, Paul...... 8 Bond, Ruskin...... 11 COMFORT WOMAN...... 18 Druckerman, Pamela...... 3 Fujita, Nayoya...... 32 BOOK OF THE COMPLETE Dunham, Mikel...... 22 Fu, Shen...... 8 CHUANG TZU, THE...... 25 IDIOT’S GUIDE TO: Fu, Tu...... 9 A BOXER REBELLION, THE...... 9 CALLIGRAPHY...... 32 Abidi, Azhar...... 5 BREAKOUT...... 30 CONVERSATIONAL JAPANESE, THE...... 32 E ACROSS THE Brecht, Bertolt...... 7 EASTERN NIGHTINGALE FLOOR...... 17 Bremmer, Ian...... 3 EAT, PRAY, LOVE...... 4 G PHILOSOPHY...... 32 Adamson, Eve...... 32 BRILLANCE OF Ebine, Kazuki...... 12 Gang, Wang...... 8 FENG SHUI...... 32 Ahmad, Jamil...... 5 THE MOON...... 17 ECSTASY...... 13 Gao, Anhua...... 8 HINDUISM...... 32 AI WEI WEI SPEAKS...... 9 BROTHER ONE CELL...... 19 Eldershaw, Jane...... 32 GATE OF HEAVENLY ISLAM...... 32 Akutagawa, Ryunosuke...... 16 Bryan, Mike...... 6 Ellsberg, Daniel...... 30 PEACE, THE...... 10 MANGA ILLUSTRATED...... 32 Alexander, Larry...... 29 BUDDHA...... 26 Emerick, Yahiya...... 32 Gattuso, Joan...... 27 MANGA SHOUJO ALL OVER CREATION...... 24 BUDDHA’S WARRIORS...... 22 Emmerich, Michael...... 17 GESTURE LIFE, A...... 24 ILLUSTRATED...... 32 ALL THAT IS GONE...... 20 BUDDHISM EMPEROR’S Ghosh, Avijit...... 12 RUMI MEDITATIONS...... 32 ALL THAT YOU WITHOUT BELIEFS...... 26 SILENT ARMY, THE...... 9 GHOST WARS...... 5 T’AI CHI AND QIGONG...... 32 CAN’T LEAVE BEHIND...... 11 BUDDHIST EMPIRE OF TEA, THE...... 4 Gibb, Camilla...... 21 TAOISM...... 32 AMERICAN FUJI...... 17 SCRIPTURES...... 27 END OF THE Gilbert, Elizabeth...... 4 KORAN, THE...... 32 FREE MARKET, THE...... 3 AMERICAN SHAOLIN...... 9 Buell, Hal...... 29 Gill, Rupinder...... 12 ZEN LIVING, THE...... 32 ENGLISH...... 8 ANALECTS, THE...... 26 Burgin, R. 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G...... 11 Hennessey, Patrick...... 31 CITY OF SIN Douglas, Bill...... 32 FOREST OF THIEVES Bhattacharya, Soumya...... 11 Heruka, Tsangnyön...... 22 AND SPLENDOUR...... 15 DOWNFALL...... 17 and THE MAGIC Bickers, Robert...... 7 Hesse, Hermann...... 27 CIVILIZATION...... 3 DRAGON HOUSE...... 21 GARDEN, THE...... 11 Bilton, Michael...... 31 FORGOTTEN COUNTRY...... 23 Hills, Ben...... 17

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HINDUISM...... 26 Linden, Eugene...... 4 MENCIUS...... 25 OPEN TO DESIRE...... 27 HINDU MYTHS...... 25 J Lin, Derek...... 27 Merchant, Hoshang...... 14 OPERATION HINDUS, THE...... 12 JACK PATEL’S LIONS OF MEDINA...... 30 MIDNIGHT IN PEKING...... 8 THUNDERHEAD...... 30 Hinnells, John R...... 31 DUBAI DREAMS...... 11 Lippman, Thomas W...... 27 MILES FROM NOWHERE...... 24 OPERATORS, THE...... 31 Hiro, Dilip...... 6 Jacques, Martin...... 8 LITTLE BOOK OF Milton, Giles...... 17 ORIENTAL MYTHOLOGY...... 26 HISTORY OF INDIA, A...... 16 Jain, Bapsy...... 13 HINDU DEITIES, THE...... 28 Mitchell, Stephen...... 28 OTHER VOICES, OTHER VISTAS...... 4 HISTORY OF JAPANESE NO DRAMAS...... 18 LITTLE RED GUARD, THE...... 8 MONKEY BRIDGE...... 21 Ozeki, Ruth L...... 24 THE PHILIPPINES, A...... 20 JAYA...... 14 LIVING BUDDHA, Moore, Lucy...... 14 LIVING CHRIST...... 27 HITOPADESA...... 12 Johnsen, Linda...... 32 Moran, Elizabeth...... 32 LONDONSTANI...... 6 Holthe, Tess Uriza...... 20 Johnson, Forrest Bryant...... 29 Morgen Witzel...... 16 LOOM OF TIME, THE...... 12 HOME AND Johnson, Tom A...... 30 Mortenson, Greg...... 6 P THE WORLD, THE...... 16 Jonathan D. Spence...... 10 Lopez, Donald S...... 27 MOST DANGEROUS PACIFIC RIMS...... 20 HOME IS A Jones, Gregg...... 20 Losensky, Paul...... 14 PLACE, THE...... 5 ROOF OVER A PIG...... 7 PAINTER OF SIGNS, THE...... 15 Joshi, Manohar Shyam...... 13 LOSING MY VIRGINITY AND Muenori, Yagyu...... 17 HONOR IN THE DUST...... 20 OTHER DUMB IDEAS...... 11 PAKISTAN ON THE BRINK...... 6 JOY LUCK CLUB, THE...... 25 Mukherjee, Aditya...... 12 HONOR KILLING...... 23 LOST DAUGHTERS PANCATANTRA, THE...... 12 JUNIOR OFFICERS’ Mukherjee, Mridula...... 12 Hosseini, Khaled...... 6 OF CHINA, THE...... 24 Panetta, Eileen...... 16 READING CLUB, THE...... 31 Mukherjee, Rudrangshu...... 14 HOUSE OF BILQIS, THE...... 5 LOTUS STILL BLOOMS, THE.....27 Panikkar, K.N...... 12 Mullaney, Craig M...... 31 HOUSE OF GLASS...... 20 LUCKY EVERYDAY...... 13 PARK’S QUEST...... 21 Multatuli...... 19 HOW TO BE AN Lukacs, John D...... 29 PASSAGES...... 16 K Mulvihill, Kristen...... 6 AMERICAN HOUSEWIFE...... 23 LUST IN TRANSLATION...... 3 Patel, Sanjay...... 28 Mun, Nami...... 24 HOW TOYOTA BECAME #1...... 17 Kabir...... 13 Paterson, Katherine...... 21 Murakami, Ryu...... 17 Huang, Wen...... 8 Kakar, Sudhir...... 13 PATRIOTS...... 30 Murari, Timeri N...... 14 Huong, Duong Thu...... 21 Kalidasa...... 12 Pattanaik, Devdutt...... 14 M Musashi, Miyamoto...... 18 Husain, Ed...... 4 KAMA SUTRA...... 28 PENGUIN 1857 MacCulloch, Diarmaid...... 28 MY MOM IS A FOB...... 25 Hutchison, David...... 32 KAMA SUTRA OF READER, THE...... 14 VATSAYANA, THE...... 28 MacFarlane, Alan...... 4 MY YEAR OF MEATS...... 24 Huxley, Francis...... 28 PENGUIN ATLAS OF WOMEN Kapur, Akash...... 13 MacFarlane, Iris...... 4 IN THE WORLD, THE...... 31 Karnow, Stanley...... 21 Magee, David...... 17 PENGUIN BOOK OF Keller, Nora Okja...... 18 MAGICAL LIFE OF N JAPANESE VERSE, THE...... 16 I Kerouac, Jack...... 26 LONG TACK SAM, THE...... 8 PENGUIN DICTIONARY Na, An...... 24 OF INTERNATIONAL I CHING...... 25 Kershaw, Ian...... 29 MAHABHARATA, THE...... 11 Nanji, Azim...... 31 RELATIONS, THE...... 31 I, LALLA...... 12 Kim, Richard E...... 18 Mahajan, Sucheta...... 12 Narayana...... 12 PENGUIN DICTIONARY I LOVE DOLLARS...... 10 Kissinger, Henry...... 8 MAHARAJA’S BOX, THE...... 12 Narayan, R. 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WARNING VOICE, THE...... 9 CHINA...... 32 IN JAPANESE...... 17 THOUSAND WAR OF THE WORLD, THE...... 3 INDIA...... 32 SIDDHARTHA...... 27 SPLENDID SUNS, A...... 6 WATER GHOSTS...... 25 JAPAN...... 32 Sidhwa, Bapsi...... 15 THREAD OF SKY, A...... 24 WEAVER’S SONGS, THE...... 13 KOREA...... 32 SILENT STEPPE, THE...... 7 THREE CUPS OF TEA...... 6 Wen, Zhu...... 10 LAOS...... 32 Sim, Kevin...... 31 TIBETAN BOOK WHAT IF?...... 29 PHILIPPINES...... 32 Simon, William L...... 14 OF THE DEAD, THE...... 22 WHEN CHINA RULES RAJASTHAN, Singh, Khushwant...... 15 TIGER FOR MALGUDI, A...... 15 THE WORLD...... 8 DELHI, & AGRA...... 32 Singh, Radhika...... 16 TO CHANGE CHINA...... 10 WHEN HEAVEN AND EARTH CHANGED PLACES...... 21 SHANGHAI...... 32 SISTERS OF THE SARI...... 11 Toer, Pramoedya Ananta...... 20 SINGAPORE...... 32 TO KILL A TIGER...... 19 WHEN THE SIX RECORDS OF ELEPHANTS DANCE...... 20 SOUTHEAST ASIA A FLOATING LIFE...... 8 Tong, Su...... 10 WHERE UNDERPANTS ON A BUDGET...... 32 TOP TEN 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