Kim Hye-jin: Concerning My Daughter

Transl. by Jamie Chang. UK 2022, 163 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Picador
When a mother allows her thirty-something daughter to move into her apartment, she wants for her what many mothers might say they want for their child: a steady income, and, even better, a good husband with a good job with whom to start a family. But when Green turns up with her girlfriend Lane in tow, her mother is unprepared ... Weiterlesen

Li Kotomi: Solo Dance

UK 2022, 256 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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World Editions
Cho Norie is forced to keep her lesbian life hidden. She is 27 and originally from Taiwan, working an office job now in Tokyo. While her colleagues worry about the economy, life-insurance policies, marriage, and children, she is forced to keep her unconventional life hidden - especially her sexuality and the violent attack that prompted her move to Japan. There ... Weiterlesen

Shelley Parker-Chan: She Who Became the Sun

UK 2021, 414 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Mantle
In Mongol-occupied imperial China, a peasant girl refuses her fate of an early death. Stealing her dead brother's identity to survive, she rises from monk to soldier, then to rebel commander. Zhu's pursuing the destiny her brother somehow failed to attain: greatness. But all the while, she feels Heaven is watching. Can anyone fool Heaven indefinitely, escaping what's written in ... Weiterlesen

Qiu Miaojin: Notes of a Crocodile

USA 2017, 242 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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NYRB
Set in the post-martial-law era of late 1980s Taipei, »Notes of a Crocodile« depicts the coming-of-age of a group of queer misfits discovering love, friendship, and artistic affinity while hardly studying at Taiwan's most prestigious university. Told through the eyes of an anonymous lesbian narrator nicknamed Lazi, Qiu Miaojin's cult classic novel is a postmodern pastiche of diaries, vignettes, mash ... Weiterlesen

Maureen F. McHugh: China Mountain Zhang

UK 2016, 315 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Gollancz
Imagine a world where Chinese Marxism has vanquished the values of capitalism and Lenin is the prophet of choice. A cybernetic world where the new charioteers are flyers, human-powered kites dancing in the skies over New York City in a brief grab at glory. A world where the opulence of Beijing marks a new cultural imperialism, as wealthy urbanites flirt ... Weiterlesen

Lisa See: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

UK 2011, 341 pp., Pb, € 12.95
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Lily is the daughter of a humble farmer, and to her family she is just another expensive mouth to feed. Then the local matchmaker delivers startling news: if Lily's feet are bound properly, they will be flawless. In 19th-century China, where a woman's eligibility is judged by the shape and size of her feet, this is extraordinary good luck. Lily ... Weiterlesen