Publisher's Synopsis
The "Asia Literary Review" is the first magazine of its kind in the Asian literary world. An exciting new English language quarterly devoted to reportage, documentary photography, travel writing, fiction and memoir, it is set to become essential reading around the world for anyone with a serious interest in Asia and the best writing from and about the region. Asia Literary Review follows the tradition of successful literary journals published in Europe and the USA by providing a view of the world that combines new fiction with eye-witness accounts and polemic. Addressing the needs of intelligent readers, every quarterly issue extends to at least 200 pages and contains the work of celebrated and established writers as well as new voices from Shanghai to Mumbai. In this edition: Texts, lies and Bangkok Red tape; Palani Mohan: The mystic Bali rice harvest: a photography essay; Chang-Rae Lee: The American immigrant novel; Sandip Roy: The ageing of India; Fiction by: Banana Yoshimoto, Justin Hill, Wen Huang, Jaina Sanga, Steven Hirst; Poetry by: Thomas R. Moore, Kristine Ong Muslim, Min K. Kang, Kete Rogers, Ocean Vuong.
