When her English mother returns to England and her Japanese father claims his children for his homeland--and has an affair with their slatternly housemaid--a young girl is flung into loneliness and desolation...
Based on a true story, Meira Chand's" The Painted Cage" explores the tragedy of a Victorian woman who becomes the victim of her own sensuality.
In Yokohama, Japan, on the morning of January 5th 1897, the trial begins of Amy Redmore, charged wi...
This novel is about the evils of war and how they affect the lives of a disparate group of individuals brought together by the Japanese attempt to conquer China. The principals include a Russian emigre, a Japanese diplomat, an American missionary, a ...
Singapore - a trading post where different lives jostle and mix. It is 1927, and three young people are starting to question whether this inbetween island can ever truly be their home. Mei Lan comes from a famous Chinese dynasty but yearns to free he...
'Bhai Sahib examined Mrs Hathiramani's horoscope. He sat cross-legged on the stone floor in a once white vest and dhoti... 'What is it?' Mrs Hathiramani asked, leaning forward. She was alarmed, not so much at what might be written in the horoscope, b...