Eastern category: 10105 books

'Besser du widersetzt dich! Sieh die Tannen, wie sie mit dem Sturm kämpfen, wie sie sich zur Wehr setzen, sobald der Wind aufkommt. Sie bewegen die Spitzen der Äste, stechen mit ihren Nadeln, heilen ihre Wunden mit dem eigenen Harz. Und sie unterliegen auch, selbstverständlich. Werden zu Asche....

**Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and soon to be back on Broadway in a revival directed by the Lion King's Julie Taymor, starring Clive Owen "A brilliant play of ideas… a visionary work that bridges the history and culture of two worlds."—Frank...

David Henry Hwang’s beautiful, heartrending play featuring an afterword by the author – winner of a 1988 Tony Award for Best Play and nominated for the 1989 Pulitzer Prize Based on a true story that stunned the world, M. Butterfly opens in the cramped prison cell where diplomat Rene Gallimard...

Shortlisted for the 2012 Tibor Jones South Asia prize.  UK's Glam calls this novel one of their five favourite tales from India (June 2014).  In a land where skin colour can determine one's destiny, fraternal twins PULLAMMA and LATA are about to embark on a journey that will tear...

The original stage adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, winner of the 1993 Booker of Bookers, the best book to win the Booker Prize in its first twenty-five years. In the moments of upheaval that surround the stroke of midnight on August 14--15, 1947, the day India proclaimed...

This 1st volume contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names: Alcott, Louisa May: Little Women Austen, Jane: Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane: Emma Balzac, Honoré de: Father Goriot Barbusse, Henri: The Inferno Brontë, Anne: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Brontë,...

The Nō Plays of Japan by Arthur Waley Translations of a selection of Nō dramas, which have deep connections with Japanese Buddhism, Shinto, and Japanese folklore. Part prose, part verse, the visually stunning No plays of Japan deal with such subjects as insanity, obsession and historical...

Skivvy Girl Synopsis American military occupation of Japan had just begun when seventeen-year-old Matsuyama Yoshiko finished high school. Her father had been killed on Iwo Jima, leaving Yoshiko and her mother without a breadwinner. Neither the mother nor daughter had any workplace skills and hovered...

The Hidden Lamp is a collection of one hundred koans and stories of Buddhist women from the time of the Buddha to the present day. This revolutionary book brings together many teaching stories that were hidden for centuries, unknown until this volume. These stories are extraordinary expressions of...

An NYRB Classics Original Simon Leys is a Renaissance man for the era of globalization. A distinguished scholar of classical Chinese art and literature and one of the first Westerners to recognize the appalling toll of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, Leys also writes with unfailing intelligence,...

A deal has been struck between two men in India—twenty-one hundred rupees in exchange for a young village woman named Rekha. Sent to Calcutta without knowing why, Rekha finds herself in the confines of a brothel with Jamuna, a prostitute and madam, who is resigned to her trade. In these conditions, Rekha must shape her destiny and find inner liberty.

The parallel worlds' travelers Marty and Nick are back in a human world, 1957 Miami Beach. It's totally different geo-politically from their old one. America comprises of eighty states, Russia had been impovershed by WWII and Stalin, Germany is devastated, and Japan had been obliterated after invading...

一個慵倦的中年女人、一個遲暮的畫家、一個年輕的風騷小妞、一個江郎才盡的中年作家；四人代表人生不同際遇的生命之聲，在某個共度的周末協奏、織譜、合鳴，組合成一齣人性慾念的劇本。形式上借用音樂的四重奏方式，並透過閱讀文本的口白段落，以分隔主角們的敘述或劇情的交錯演出。高行健特別提供了此戲在演出時，可供朗讀、廣播、舞台的表演形式，亦可將戲、詩、口白敘述、音樂揉合在一起的趣味戲感。...

We all have kissed in our life, cheek kiss, french kiss, lick kiss and many more but do we single out any kiss as the ultimate one i.e. the best achievable or imaginable of its kind.Thus starts the story when a friend tells the protagonist what is the ultimate kiss and his pursuit starts.He tries...