South Southeast Asian category: 181 books

Calvino untersucht den Selbstmord eines jungen kanadischen Malers. Laut Autopsiebericht hatte er eine tödliche Droge eingenommen. Für die Polizei ein scheinbar eindeutiger Fall. Doch in Bangkok trügt der Schein oft. Manchmal haben Springer Hilfe beim Übergang in die nächste Welt. Und den Helfern nachzuspüren, kann riskant sein. Wie in diesem Fall.

Privatdetektiv Vincent Calvino ist seit fast dreißig Jahren im Geschäft und eine bekannte Größe in der Welt der Kriminalliteratur. Diesmal gerät er ins Fadenkreuz der thailändischen Behörden, als er in einem Fall von Arzneimittel-Piraterie ermittelt. Er folgt der Spur des Geldes bis vor die...

Tony Collins, un correspondant de guerre américain, et Sam Rith, un ancien enfant-soldat chez les Khmers rouges, se retrouvent trente ans après. Tony a aidé Sam, un adolescent de quinze ans meurtri par la guerre et les camps de réfugiés, à refaire sa vie...

Nach fast dreißig Jahren trifft der amerikanische Kriegsberichterstatter Tony Collins Sam Rith wieder, einen ehemaligen Kindersoldaten der Roten Khmer. Tony hatte dem sterbensmüden, fünfzehnjährigen Sam einst einen Neuanfang in den Vereinigten Staaten ermöglicht. ...

Writers Editors Critics (WEC) An International Biannual Refereed Journal of English Language and Literature Volume 6 Number 2 (September 2016) ISSN: 2231-198X Special Issue: a tribute to Indian poet Mahasweta Devi (14 January 1926 - 28 July 2016) A Poetic Tribute to Mahasweta Devi - K....

Enjoy this poem collection.“The fifty-two new poems in this collection are primarily driven by Ananya S Guha’s raw emotion — that of anger, disappointment, and sometimes helplessness at the political state of affairs. These are words of protest, dissonance and dissent that speak out loud against...

Rabindranath Tagore was an IndianBengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European to...

Contemporary poetic imagination is related to the actuality around which is the basis for thematic content in our poets. There is emphasis on the feelings about life, living, and our tradition and ethos. Poetry is being cherished as portrayal of our aspirations, ambitions, conditions of our sensitivity...

Vamsa is a dynamic genre of Buddhist history filled with otherworldly characters and the exploits of real-life heroes. These narratives collapse the temporal distance between Buddha and the reader, building an emotionally resonant connection with an outsized religious figure and a longed-for past....

Featuring the first-ever English translation of the "Splendid Vision Sutra," a sixth-century Indian Mahayana Buddhist scripture known for its rich ritual magic and worship of bodhisattva-goddesses, this volume explicates the text's cultural significance as a source of extraordinary value,...

Writing Resistance is the first close study of the growing body of contemporary Hindi-language Dalit (low caste) literature in India. The Dalit literary movement has had an immense sociopolitical and literary impact on various Indian linguistic regions, yet few scholars have attempted to situate the...

Listen to what I am about to tell you: do not read this book alone. You really shouldn’t. In one of the most playful experiments ever put between two covers, every other section of Trance-Migrations prescribes that you read its incantatory tales out loud to a lover, friend, or confidant, in order...

How was the post-modernist project contested, subverted and assimilated in India? This book offers a personal account and an intellectual history of its reception and response. Tracing independent India’s engagement with Western critical theory, Paranjape outlines both its past and ‘post’. The...

In a work of stunning archival recovery and interpretive virtuosity, Priya Joshi illuminates the cultural work performed by two kinds of English novels in India during the colonial and postcolonial periods. Spanning the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, readers and writers, empire and nation, consumption...