Asia

Product Description A personal account of life in the orbit of Mao and Zhao En-Lai and one woman's effort to tell what it was like to be at the center ...

Today’s most highly regarded writer on Indian food gives us an enchanting memoir of her childhood in Delhi in an age and a society that has since disa...

WINNER OF THE 2020 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR NONFICTION\“Wondrously and elegantly written in language that astonishes and moves the reader…T...

A New York Times bestseller, the shocking story of one of the few people born in a North Korean political prison to have escaped and survived. Blaine Harde...

In this New York Times bestseller, award-winning combat reporter Sean Naylor reveals how close American forces came to disaster in Afghanistan against Al ...

God's Samurai is the unusual story of Mitsuo Fuchida, the career aviator who led the attack on Pearl Harbor and participated in most of the fiercest battle...

'meticulously Researched And Beautifully Written, The True Story Of A Japanese American Family That Found Itself On Opposite Sides During World War Ii--an E...

The tragic true story of Japan's Crown Princess-with a new afterword by the author. It's the fantasy of many young women: marry a handsome prince, move i...

Hunting Eichmann is the first complete narrative of a relentless and harrowing international manhunt. When the Allies stormed Berlin in the last days of t...

From the beloved, internationally bestselling author of Wild Swans, and co-author of the bestselling Mao: The Unknown Story, the dramatic, epic biography of...

The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon is a fascinating, detailed account of Japanese court life in the eleventh century. Written by a lady of the court at the he...

Pulitzer Prize Winnerover Five Months On The New York Times Bestseller List tremendously Compelling, Somehow Dramatic And Intimate At The Same Time-the Ne...

The Human Tradition in Modern Japan is a collection of short biographies of ordinary Japanese men and women, most of them unknown outside their family and l...

Amagisterial account of the pains, the struggles, the humiliations, and the glories of the world's largest and least likely democracy, Ramachandra Guha's ...

In 1943, Primo Levi, A 25-year-old Chemist And Italian Citizen Of Jewish Race, Was Arrested By Italian Fascists And Deported From His Native Turin To Auschw...

The true story of four siblings who lost their parents in the devastating Sri Lankan tsunami and how they turned tragedy into inspiration On December 26, 2...

An American Journalist Living In Beijing Offers An Odyssey Through Twenty-first-century China As Seen Through The Eyes Of A Handful Of Ordinary People. I: A...

Jung Chang, Jon Halliday. Originally Published In Great Britain By Jonathan Cape, London--t.p. Verso. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [739]-790) And...

A century ago, outsiders saw China as a place where nothing ever changes. Today the country has become one of the most dynamic regions on earth. In Oracle ...

Have you ever thought about how your seemingly insignificant life events have formed who you are? How intriguing it is to look back and discover how your cu...

Best known for his academy award-winning role as Dith Pran in The Killing Fields, for Haing Ngor his greatest performance was not in Hollywood but in war-to...

The life Kamila Sidiqi had known changed overnight when the Taliban seized control of the city of Kabul. After receiving a teaching degree during the civil...

Chronicles the history of America's secret counterterrorist unit, tells how members are recruited and trained, and explains its key role in the Iran hostage...

When Gao Wenqian first published this groundbreaking, provocative biography in Hong Kong, it was immediately banned in the People's Republic. Using classifi...

The stirring true story of a girl who survived the brutality of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia retraces her steps from the forced "evacuation" of Phnom Penh in...

A Gripping, Inspiring, And Eye-opening Memoir Of Fortitude And Survival--of A Twelve-year-old Boy's Traumatic Flight From Afghanistan To The West--that Puts...

With The Bookseller of Kabul, award-winning journalist Asne Seierstad has given readers a first-hand look at Afghani life as few outsiders have seen it. In...

Evocative, funny and full of life, this is a beautifully observed childhood memoir of growing up in colonial Hong Kong in the 1950s.As an inquisitive seven-...

Now a Major Motion Picture starring Dame Judi Dench from director Stephen Frears.History’s most unlikely friendship—this is the astonishing story of Qu...

One Man's Campaign To Build Schools In The Most Dangerous, Remote, And Anti-american Reaches Of Asia: In 1993 Greg Mortenson Was An American Mountain-climbi...

Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders, captured by the Japanese in Singapore. Forced into manual labor as a POW, he survived 750 days i...

Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, this extraordinary memoir is at once a great family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth...

Jared Kushner Was One Of The Most Consequential Presidential Advisers In Modern History. For The First Time, He Recounts What Happened Behind Closed Doors D...

the Life Of Harry S. Truman Is One Of The Greatest Of American Stories, Filled With Vivid Characters -- Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Be...

Thirty years after the epic journey chronicled in his classic work The Great Railway Bazaar, the world’s most acclaimed travel writer re-creates his 25,00...

Jan Wong, a Canadian of Chinese descent, went to China as a starry-eyed Maoist in 1972 at the height of the Cultural Revolution. A true believer—and one o...

A youthful troublemaker, a world-class NCAA miler, a 1936 Olympian, a WWII bombardier: Louis Zamperini had a fuller life than most. But on May 27, 1943, it...

Product Description Tokyo Junkie is a memoir that plays out over the dramatic 60-year growth of the megacity Tokyo, once a dark, fetid backwater and no...