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First ever translations of short stories by the noted writer of Punjabi Nadir Ali, rendered into modern English by a San Francisco based team of librarians, Amna Ali and Moazzam Sheikh. Fourteen short stories chosen by the translators from Nadir's ...
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Fiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. "Kumar's writing can feel subtle. Brief. Quiet even. Then you hit one air pocket, then another. In her world, the dead refuse to forgive, ardor is immortal, and contact with other beings has already been made...
Fiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. "A beautiful meditation on the cheating heart, the broken heart. Original and memorable."—Karen Joy Fowler
Fiction. California Interest. Asian and Asian American Studies. Women's Studies. "Two Indians, one Native American and the other South Asian Parsi meet in the sixties in Berkeley. Spanning a period from war to war—Vietnam to Chiapas—friendships and ...
Fiction. South Asian American Studies. "Moazzam Sheikh may be the Pakistani immigrant Woody Allen of our times, wringing guilt and manhood torments out of his multicultural background."—David Lincoln
Fiction. LGBT Studies. Jewish Studies. How does a straight American soldier with a girl back home return from a tour of duty in Iceland with The Works of Oscar Wilde as his most cherished souvenir? The answer is a cosmopolitan tale of love, friendsh...
Poetry. South Asia Studies. Translated from the Punjabi by Amritjit Singh and Judy Ray. "The poems of Rampuri are wise and memorable—whether he is speaking to us about the timeless tension between reason and age, love, the experience of illusion, li...
Fiction. Asian American Studies. Jewish Studies. Told with humor and melancholy, TO BE WITH HER is a gripping tale of quest for self-evaluation by a young man from Pakistan. Of Muslim background, the narrator deals with his attachment to his culture...