Asian Literature

Devendra Satyarthi is one of the few creators who, in addition to his fiction writing, has been famous for collecting folk songs in various cities of the subcontinent by assuming the form of a monk. It is said that the basis of his stories is based on folk songs and mythological stories. This book "Aur bansarii bajti rahi (And the flute kept playing)" is a collection of few of his famous short stories./¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿ ¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿ ¿¿ ¿¿¿ ¿¿¿ ¿¿ ¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿ ¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿ ¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿ ¿¿¿ ¿¿¿ ¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿ ¿¿ ¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿ ¿¿ ¿¿ ¿¿ ¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿ ¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿ ¿¿ ¿¿¿¿ ¿¿ ¿¿ ¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿

Allama Rashid-ul-Khairi was a social reformer from British India and largely known as Musavire Gham. He is among the most well-known authors of Urdu literature. Khairi is regarded as one of the founders of Urdu short story, fusing literary works with didactic and reformist lessons. This book "Rivaaj ki Bhent" presents a selection of short stories of Rashid-ul-Khairi.

Patrik, who sometimes calls himself "the patient," is a literary researcher living in present-day Berlin. The city is just coming back to life after lockdown, and his beloved opera houses are open again, but Patrik cannot leave the house and hardly manages to get out of bed. When he shaves his head, his girlfriend scolds him, "What have you done to your head? I don't want to be with a prisoner from a concentration camp!" He is supposed to give a paper at a conference in Paris, on the poetry collection Threadsuns by Paul Celan, but he can't manage to get past the first question on the registration form: "What is your nationality?" Then at a café (or in the memory of being at a café?), he meets a mysterious stranger. The man's name is Leo-Eric Fu, and somehow he already knows Patrik...In the spirit of imaginative homage like Roberto Bolaño's Monsieur Pain, Antonio Tabucchi's Requiem, and Thomas Bernhard's Wittgenstein's Nephew, Yoko Tawada's mesmerizing new novel unfolds like a lucid dream in which friendship, conversation, reading, poetry, and music are the connecting threads that bind us together.

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A beautifully packaged hardback edition of Haruki Murakami's breakout hit, now with a new introduction by the author<BR><BR>When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world of uneasy friendships, casual sex, passion, loss and desire - to a time when an impetuous young woman called Midori marches into his life and he has to choose between the future and the past.<BR><BR>'Evocative, entertaining, sexy and funny; but then Murakami is one of the best writers around' Time Out

Un adolescent, Kafka Tamura, quitte la maison familiale de Tokyo pour échapper à une malédiction ¿dipienne proférée par son père. De l'autre côté de l'archipel, Nakata, un vieil homme amnésique, décide lui aussi de prendre la route. Leurs deux destinées s'entremêlent pour devenir le miroir l'une de l'autre, tandis que, sur leur chemin, la réalité bruisse d'un murmure envoûtant.<BR>

Toru Okada's cat has disappeared.His wife is growing more distant every day.Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been receiving.As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life, spent cooking, reading, listening to jazz and opera and drinking beer at the kitchen table, are turned inside out, and he embarks on a bizarre journey, guided (however obscurely) by a succession of characters, each with a tale to tell.'Visionary...a bold and generous book' New York Times'Murakami weaves textured layers of reality into a shot-silk garment of deceptive beauty' Independent on Sunday'Deeply philosophical and teasingly perplexing, it is impossible to put down' Daily Telegraph'Mesmerising, surreal, this really is the work of a true original' The Times

Across a bridge in a quiet neighborhood in Tokyo, a seasonal cherry blossom sits on the river. Nearby is the Marble Cafe, where a woman writes in a notebook and a young waiter prepares her favorite hot drink. Both wonder about each other and about the other lives of the clientele who frequent this charming little cafe behind the trees...Without even realizing it, we may touch and change someone else's life.Taking a walk along the river, cooking the best tamagoyaki, ordering hot chocolate, forgetting to remove our nail polish... The small, everyday acts that we do can lead to unexpected encounters, reverberate far beyond our own circle, and ultimately make a difference in the world around us.Hot Chocolate on Thursday is a tapestry of slice-of-life moments that each open and close with a woman ordering her regular hot chocolate at the mysterious Marble Cafe. What happens in between will touch and swell your heart, as we connect with a community of untold unfolding lives.Marble Cafe #1

'I can never forget the sense of pure astonishment I felt when I first read Mieko Kawakami'<BR>- Haruki Murakami<BR><BR>'The most exciting Japanese novelist at work today'<BR>- The Times<BR><BR>A heart-stopping story of teenage girls on the brink in 1990s Tokyo from the International Booker Prize-Shortlisted author of Heaven and Breasts and Eggs.<BR><BR>Hana has nothing but she's hopeful. She's fifteen years old. She lives in a tiny apartment in a suburb of Tokyo with her young mother, a hostess at a local dive bar. They have no money, no security. Then Kimiko appears.<BR><BR>Kimiko is older, a bright light in Hana's dark world. Together they set up Lemon, a bar that, despite its shabby setting and seedy clientele, becomes a haven for Hana. Suddenly Hana has a job she loves, friends to share her days with, and the glittering promise of money. She feels like a normal girl. She feels invincible.<BR><BR>But in the narrow alleys of Sangenjaya, nothing is as it seems. Soon all of Hana's hope, her optimism, and her drive, will be tested to the limit . . .<BR><BR>A story of enduring friendship and deep betrayal, Sisters in Yellow is a masterpiece of teenage dreams and adult cruelties that confirms Mieko Kawakami as one of the great writers of her generation.<BR><BR>'Relentlessly riveting . . . My heart felt very tender reading this'<BR>- Frances Cha, author of If I Had Your Face<BR><BR><BR>Readers love Sisters in Yellow:<BR><BR>'My new favourite book of ALL TIME. The ending absolutely destroyed me.'<BR><BR>'A powerful, emotionally charged exploration of friendship, survival and the quiet brutality of inequality'<BR><BR>'Mieko Kawakami doesn't need a high-speed chase to create tension; she lets a heavy, unsettling mood seep into the floorboards'<BR><BR>'Confirms Kawakami's place as one of the most vital voices in contemporary literature'<BR><BR>'The character building is second to none . . . Mieko Kawakami is a generational talent'<BR><BR>'This is Kawakami at her best. Not for a second does the pace let up.'

Kylie Lee Baker returns with another addictive, gory, horror PHENOMENON'A blood-soaked, masterful blend of horror and mystery' GUARDIAN'Blood-slicked, unsettling and immersive' DAILY MAIL'A lush, unnerving ghost story' NEW YORK TIMES'Brilliantly inventive. A must read - I couldn't turn the pages fast enough' MONIKA KIM'A haunted house horror with a samurai twist' IGN'Audacious, surreal . . . An exquisite expression of human pain held tight across centuries' LEIGH RADFORD2026Lee can't remember exactly where he hid the body, but he can remember the blood. Hiding out at his father's centuries-old home in Japan, Lee knows something is wrong with him, and he knows it has something to do with his mother's disappearance almost a decade ago.1877A female samurai, Sen, stalks the borders of her home to protect her family from slaughter after the abolition of the samurai class. She's not sure how they'll ever survive, not without her father, who has returned from war with a different soul behind his eyes.When Lee and Sen find one another through a door between their worlds, they're both looking for answers. But what they find in the creaking old house they share is beyond what either of them could imagine...PRAISE FOR THE NEWEST VOICE IN HORROR:'A profound reminder of the true horrors that lurk in the world' TORI BOVALINO'A serial killer mystery and a heartbreaking portrayal of grief' KIRSTY LOGAN'This book dug its claws into me and would not let go' LING LING HUANG'Body horror and female rage fiction combine in a powerful novel that will leave you quaking' ALMA KATSU'A poignant, searing portrait of the hostility and violence that plagued pandemic-era NYC' VERONICA G. HENRY

A dream elegy for the political death of Hong Kong, from the author ofOwlish.

'Magnificent' KAMILA SHAMSIE<BR>'Majestic yet profoundly tender' MEGHA MAJUMDAR <BR><BR>A breathtaking novel about a woman forging a life for herself on the railways, Railsong is the story of an individual coming of age amid the social and political upheavals of twentieth-century India.<BR><BR>In a newly independent India charged with national vigour, Charu, the motherless daughter of a railway worker, pines for freedom from the shackles of her impoverishment and meagre prospects. As diesel engines replace steam and the calamitous churn of drought, famine and a great strike engulfs her town, Charu dares to imagine a different future for herself. She boards a train and flees westwards, leaving behind the oppressive domesticity of her childhood for the alluring modernity, and apparent opportunities, of Bombay. <BR><BR> Unfazed by the everyday discriminations around her, she becomes an unlikely hero: a railway woman and census enumerator who keeps her heart open -sometimes guilelessly - to her nation's vast possibility. Sweeping, elegiac and at times wonderfully comic, Railsong is a powerful portrait of grit, optimism and the force of character that enables one remarkable woman to live on her own terms in a country full of contradictions.

THE #1 INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING SERIESWelcome back to the Full Moon Coffee Shop.HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD AND TRANSLATED INTO 20 LANGUAGESIn Japanese legend, cats are symbols of good luck. If you are kind to them, they'll return the favour one day. And if you are kind to the right cat, you might find yourself invited to a celestial café.Under a glittering full moon, a Kyoto coffee shop appears only where and when it's needed. It's run by talking cats serving delicious desserts and age-old astrological wisdom. The café's first customer of the night, Satomi, catches wind of her boyfriend's plan to propose, and feels torn between love and success. Her disaffected intern, Koyuki, is having a hard time fitting into the new version of her family, while Junko is visiting home for the first time after decades away.In this follow-up to the cosy classic, the customers of the Full Moon Coffee Shop stand at a crossroads in their lives. With the help of some feline divinations, they will find the courage to follow their stars.'Lose yourself in a world of talking cats with this cult bestseller' GLAMOUR'Perfect for readers of feel-good fiction' BOOKLIST

'With Sisters in Yellow, [Kawakami] proves she is still the most exciting Japanese novelist at work today' The Times<BR>Deluxe Hardback edition<BR><BR>From the International Booker Prize-Shortlisted author of Heaven and Breasts and Eggs<BR><BR>Hana has nothing but she's hopeful. She's fifteen years old. She lives in a tiny apartment in a suburb of Tokyo with her young mother, a hostess at a local dive bar. They have no money, no security. Then Kimiko appears.<BR><BR>Kimiko is older, a bright light in Hana's dark world. Together they set up Lemon, a bar that, despite its shabby setting and seedy clientele, becomes a haven for Hana. Suddenly Hana has a job she loves, friends to share her days with, and the glittering promise of money. She feels like a normal girl. She feels invincible.<BR><BR>But in the narrow alleys of Sangenjaya, nothing is as it seems. Soon all of Hana's hope, her optimism, and her drive, will be tested to the limit . . .<BR><BR>A story of enduring friendship and deep betrayal, Sisters in Yellow is a masterpiece of teenage dreams and adult cruelties that confirms Mieko Kawakami as one of the great writers of her generation.

The heartwarming Japanese bestseller about grief, love and a cat who will do anything to see his beloved owner again'A much-needed dose of comfort and positivity' SHANNA TANAfter a long and happy life with a loving human family, tabby cat Fuuta has passed into the afterlife. But he is not as far from his owner Michiru as it seems. Sometimes the divide between the lands of the living and the dead can be traversed.Eager to see Michiru again, Fuuta interviews for a position at Café Pont, which sits in the liminal space between the two worlds. The café is known for its unique service: its living customers can request meetings with the person they'd most like to see again, through the specially selected spirits of messenger cats.Fuuta must investigate and deliver his messages without unnerving the living, or worse, upsetting the balance of the universe itself. It is a weighty task for a tabby cat, but Fuuta rises to the challenge. After all, the job offers a special reward: he will get to see Michiru again. And he'll do anything to reunite with his family.Translated from Japanese by M JeanReaders love Messenger Cat Cafe'This book is so heartwarming... delightful!' *****'Softly magical and deeply comforting... A beautiful meditation on love that never truly ends' *****'What an absolutely gorgeous read this was!' *****'This book is so sweet. I loved all the little ways it reminds you to live, to love, and to stop regretting things that you cannot control or change' *****

In this Indian modern classic, roofs are a special place; they are meant for wild things, for romance and for play. They are realms of freedom--freedom from the male gaze, sexual freedom, and freedom from society. Chachcho and Lalna use their roofs to build a friendship that transcends time and memory. Suddenly one day, Lalna has to leave, to return only after Chachcho's passing. Amidst rumors and gossip in the neighborhood, Chachcho's nephew tries to piece together his memories of the two women, one of whom is his mother. The truth he is searching for could destroy him forever, but to not find out is no longer an option. Now finally published outside of India, this consummate novel of twists and turns by the International Booker Prize-winning author Geetanjali Shree, The Roof Beneath Their Feet is a contemporary novel that promises to be read for generations to come.

THE #1 INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING HEALING SERIES FROM JAPANANOTHER TALE OF CATS, CAKES AND ASTROLOGY FOR READERS OF BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLDUnder the influence of Neptune, the doors to people's dreams are opening once again...If you are kind to cats, so Japanese legend goes, they'll return the favour one day. And if you are kind to the right cat, you might find yourself invited to a celestial café. One summer moon, a cat with azure eyes takes over the running of the Full Moon Coffee Shop. But this cat isn't just any old cat: it embodies our deepest desires - and quietly keeps watch over our dream worlds.The evening's first customer is an aging mother living in a crumbling house by the sea, in the company of her fluffy Persian. Fujiko hasn't seen her only daughter, a high-flying actress in Tokyo, for longer than she can remember. But when news of a lost love hits national headlines and reopens closed doors, this new feline friend offers the chance of a long-awaited reunion.A story about love in all its forms, the third book in the bestselling Full Moon Coffee Shop series tells an empowering story about love and coming to terms with your true feelings.

The instant Sunday Times bestseller.<BR><BR>The must-have sequel to Sosuke Natsukawa's bestselling The Cat Who Saved Books - an uplifting tale from Japan about a talking cat and the power of books to make a difference in the world.<BR><BR>Thirteen-year-old Nanami Kosaki loves reading. The local library has become a home from home and books are her friends. When Nanami notices that some of her favourite books are disappearing from the library shelves, she becomes suspicious of a man in a grey suit whose furtive behaviour doesn't feel right.<BR><BR>Should she follow him to see what he's up to? It wouldn't be dangerous . . . would it?<BR><BR>When a smart-talking tabby cat called Tiger appears and issues a grave warning about how dangerous that would be, they decide to team up and investigate. Where have all the books gone? And can the unlikely duo overcome the challenges ahead?<BR><BR>Warm, wonderful and wise, The Cat Who Saved the Library is a powerful lesson never to underestimate the value of great literature, and a reminder to always think for ourselves.<BR><BR>Translated from Japanese by Louise Heal Kawai<BR><BR>* The Cat Who Saved the Library was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 19.04.25

'Compulsive and wrenching ... Bhattacharya has written the epic text for the South Asian queer community that the characters in this book long to find' Sarvat Hasin, author of The Giant Dark'There is an epic confidence to Bhattacharya's writing' Samira Ahmed'It's magnificent: funny, melancholic, sharply true. The force of it crept up on me in a brilliantly subtle way' James Cahill, author of Tiepolo BlueFROM THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF ONE SMALL VOICE: a bold, electrifying story of a family in which three generations of gay men in India fight for love and dignity against the currents of their timesVivaan, a teenager in India's silicon plateau, has discovered love on his smartphone. Intoxicating, boundary-breaking love. His parents know he is gay, and their support is something Vivaan can count on, but they don't know what exactly their son gets up to in the online world.For his uncle, born thirty years earlier, things were very different. Mambro's life changed forever when he fell for a male classmate at a time, and in a country, where the persecution of gay people was rife under a colonial-era law criminalising homosexuality.And before that was Mambro's uncle Sukumar, a young man hopelessly in love with another young man, but forced by social taboos to keep their relationship a secret at all costs. Sukumar would never live the life he yearned for, but his story would ignite and inspire his nephew and grand-nephew after him.Bold and bracing, intimate and heartbreaking, Deviants examines the histories we inherit and the legacies we leave behind.'Bhattacharya's storytelling talents are limitless' Nikesh Shukla, praise for One Small VoiceA joy to read, a full universe of feeling ... A born storyteller' Max Porter, praise for One Small Voice

In the second book in the Ancestor Memories historical fantasy series, a young woman finds herself back in 1920s Tokyo as Japan enters a new and dangerous era—and a deadly tragedy awaits her city.Yui Sanada struggles to raise her twelve-year-old brother, Hiro, while contending with the antics of their neglectful, alcoholic mother. During a trip to Ueno Park, Hiro runs away from his sister into a strange passage beneath a samurai statue. Yui chases after him and soon finds herself in a Tokyo far removed from the familiar world of 1995. When Yui emerges from the tunnel, she cannot find Hiro but meets a young woman named Chiyo and her family and learns she has traveled back through time to 1923. As feelings between the two women develop, Yui and realizes it’s just weeks before the devastating Great Kanto Earthquake will happen, killing tens of thousands and leveling the city. Will Yui be able to find her brother and save her new family from the coming disaster? 

Mitch and Yonko haven't spoken in a year. As children, they were inseparable, raised together in an orphanage outside Tokyo-but ever since the sudden death of Mitch's brother, they've been mourning in their private ways, worlds apart. In the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, they choose to reunite, finding each other in a city undone by disaster.Mitch and Yonko have drifted apart, but they will always be bound together. Because long ago they witnessed an unspeakable tragedy, a tragedy that they've kept secret for their entire lives. They never speak of it, but it's all around them. Like history, it repeats itself.Yuko Tsushima's sweeping and consuming novel is a metaphysical saga of postwar Japan. Wildcat Dome is a hugely ambitious exploration of denial, of the ways in which countries and their citizens avoid telling the truth-a tale of guilt, loss, and inevitable reckoning.'Tsushima evades any label, her fiction transcends gender to focus on the existential loneliness that is at the heart of humanity.' Japan Times

'Brilliantly written, masterful storytelling, and hard to put down. This story will stay with me for a very, very long time' HEATHER MORRIS, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz<BR><BR>'Mesmerising. Jane Yang masterfully creates this 19th century lost world' THE TIMES<BR><BR>'This story of love, loss and betrayal will leave a deep imprint on your soul. Perfect for fans of Memoirs of a Geisha' WOMAN & HOME<BR><BR>Love and loss. Sisterhood and betrayal. Little Flower and Linjing's fates are bound together.<BR><BR>China, 1800s. Little Flower is sold as a muizai to Linjing's family when they are both only children. Jealous of her new handmaiden's ladylike bound feet and talent for embroidery, Linjing ensures Little Flower can never leave her to ascend in society.<BR><BR>Despite their different places in the household, over the years the two must put aside their bitter rivalry to secure both their futures through Linjing's marriage . . . Until scandal strikes the family, and Linjing and Little Flower's lives are thrown into chaos.<BR><BR>Linjing's fall from grace could be an opportunity for Little Flower - but will their intertwined fates lead to triumph, or tragedy for them both?<BR><BR>Don't miss Jane Yang's next book, Winter of the Bride - available to order now.<BR><BR>'Jane Yang is an exciting new talent' SANTA MONTEFIORE<BR>'More than a book, this novel is an act of empowerment for women' NGUYEN PHAN QUE MAI<BR>'Enchants from the first page to the last' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, STARRED REVIEW<BR>'This fascinating, evocative story would make a great book club pick' RED<BR>'Captivating and exquisitely rendered' MELISSA FU<BR>'If you liked Memoirs of a Geisha, then you will love The Lotus Shoes' SORAYA LANE<BR>'I devoured this stunning debut' ALKA JOSHI<BR>'This big, juicy saga has scandal, hardship, love and sisterhood' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING<BR>'A hugely talented writer whose storytelling prowess fully immerses the reader' NATASHA LESTER<BR>'I enjoyed every single page of The Lotus Shoes' ELIZABETH CHADWICK<BR>'Captivating, utterly compelling' SUNDAY POST<BR>'You'll love it' MANDY ROBOTHAM<BR>'Stunning, transporting, unforgettable' AMANDA GEARD