result is a powerful work about love, sacrifice and …...The Hundred Secret Senses Set in San...

J EAN KWOKGirl in TranslationWhen Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate to Brooklyn, she begins a secret double life: schoolgirl during the day, sweatshop worker in the evenings. “Kwok perfectly captures the voice and perspective of a young immigrant, and the result is a powerful work about love, sacrifice and faith.”—Min Jin Lee, author of Free Food for Millionaires“The astonishing—and semi-autobiographical—tale of a girl from Hong Kong who, at age eleven, shoulders the weight of her mother’s American dream all the way from Chinatown sweatshop to the Ivy League.”—Vogue“A resolute yet naïve Chinese girl confronts poverty and culture shock with equal zeal when she and her mother immigrate to Brooklyn in Kwok’s affecting coming-of-age debut.”—Publishers Weekly

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CATHER INE CHUNGForgotten CountryWeaving Korean folklore within a modern narrative of immigration and identity, Forgotten Country explores the inevitability of loss and the conflict between obliga-tion and freedom. “It is a rare novel…that can sing at once with such tenderness and ferocity, with such intense feeling and exquisite restraint. Forgotten Country is just that book, poetically crafted, shimmering with hard-won emotion, and wholly absorbing.”—Chang-rae Lee, author of The Surrendered“A riveting, brutal portrait of two sisters in crisis….Examines the unspoken com-plexities of familial love and forgiveness, loyalty and betrayal, and renders an indel-ible, haunting image of Korea.”—Kate Walbert, author of A Short History of Women

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AMY TANThe Hundred Secret SensesSet in San Francisco and in a remote village of Southwestern China, The Hundred Secret Senses is a tale of American assumptions shaken by Chinese ghosts. In 1962, five-year-old Olivia meets the half-sister she never knew existed, eighteen-year-old Kwan from China, who sees ghosts with her “yin eyes.” Decades later, Olivia describes her complicated relationship with her sister and her failing marriage, as Kwan reveals her story, sweeping the reader into the splendor and violence of mid-nineteenth century China. “The wisest and most captivating novel Tan has written.”—The Boston Globe

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Also available: The Joy Luck Club 978-0-14-303809-2, The Kitchen God’s Wife 978-0-14-303810-8, The Opposite of Fate 978-0-14-200489-0

CHANG-RAE LEEThe SurrenderedThe lives of a Korean War orphan and a young GI collide in a Korean orphanage, where they vie for the attention of a beautiful yet damaged missionary. Thirty years later and on the other side of the world, the two are reunited in a plot that will force them to come to terms with the mysterious secrets of their past.“Captures so perfectly the haunted unease that limns so many immigrant lives and this novel, about an orphanage in post-War Korea...looks to be Lee’s epic master-piece.”—Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao“The most ambitious and compelling novel of [Lee’s] already impressive career—a symphonic work that reprises the themes of identity, familial legacies and the im-peratives of fate he has addressed in earlier works, but which he grapples with here on a broader, more intricate historical canvas.”—The New York Times

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KRYS LEEDrifting HouseSpanning Korea and the United States, from the postwar era to contemporary times, Lee’s stunning fiction debut illuminates a people torn between the traumas of their collective past and the indignities and sorrows of their present.“What wonderful and haunting worlds Krys Lee illuminates—a goose for a goose fa-ther, a sympathetic wife made bold by her husband’s infidelity—all facets of a Korea and a Korean America made new by this exciting writer’s entrancing vision.”—Janice Y.R. Lee, author of The Piano Teacher “The limpid, naturalistic prose and the flawless internal logic of these stories are reminiscent of the best of Katherine Anne Porter and Carson McCullers.”—Publishers Weekly (starred)

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ALEX G I LVARRYFrom the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy CombatantA recent immigrant from the Philippines is taken to Guantanamo, handed a Koran, and locked away indefinitely on suspicion of being linked to a terrorist plot. “In this funny debut, flashy Filipino fashion designer Boy Hernandez sees his Ameri-can dream become a nightmare when he’s ensnared in a terrorist plot and shipped to Guantanamo.”—People“It’s rare for a novel to tread so fearlessly into the political and yet to emerge so deeply funny and humane. Gilvarry is a young talent on the rise.”—Gary Shteyngart, author of The Russian Debutante’s Handbook“Sharply written and wryly witty….Combin[es] a Kafkaesque hero with a captivating ‘coming to New York’ story.”—Booklist

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DEANNA FE IA Thread of Sky “A lyrical journey through the heart of contemporary China, and the family of women who make the pilgrimage across these pages are as complicated, broad-ranging, and fascinating as the country itself.”—Ann Patchett, author of Run“A remarkable debut by a gifted young novelist….Fei is an accomplished writer with keen insight into cross-cultural Chinese-American rootlessness and the ties that bind women of several generations.”—Anita Shreve, author of A Change in Altitude“An intimate portrait of that famous ‘new China’, as much of a surprise to Chinese-Americans as it is to the rest of us.”—Alexander Chee, author of Edinburgh

NAMI MUNMiles from Nowhere“In this novel set in the 1980’s, homeless teen Joon leaves her troubled family to suffer the scams, violence and sudden friendships of street life in New York City. Suspenseful, funny, painful and poetic, Nami Mun’s debut shows a talent for close observation and a prose which fills the grit of street life with flashes of gold.”—Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander “An impressive read, relentless and fierce in its approach.”—Stephen Hong Sohn, Stanford University

J ESS ICA HAGEDORNToxicology“As the brilliant chronicler of the Filipino-American experience...Hagedorn has tackled in the past large themes such as the tragic consequences of colonialism....With Toxicology, her best, and most daring, novel so far, she has broken new ground by writing with naked brutality...about what it means to be a New Yorker at the be-ginning of the 21st century.”—Jaime Manrique, author of Our Lives Are the Rivers

Also available: Dogeaters 978-0-14-014904-3, Dream Jungle 978-0-14-200109-7

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J ESS ICA HAGEDORN, ed i t o rCharlie Chan is Dead 2: At Home in the WorldAn Anthology of Contemporary Asian American FictionPENGUIN PAPERBACK • 592 PP. • 978-0-14-200390-9 • $22.00

RUTH L . OZEK IMy Year of Meats“[A] very ambitious first novel about a Japanese-American documentary film-maker who gleefully takes on the meat industry, the media, wife-battering, sexism and racism without ever losing sight of plot or character.”—San Francisco Chronicle“A smart and compelling novel about a world we don’t realize we live in.”—Michael Pollan, author of Omnivore’s Dilemma

Also available: All Over Creation 978-0-14-200389-3

RICHARD E . K IMThe MartyredIntroduction by Heinz Insu FenklForeword by Susan Choi

The National Book Award finalist is now back in print for the first time in 25 years.During the early weeks of the Korean War, a young South Korean officer is ordered to investigate the mass murder of North Korean ministers by Communist forces. For propaganda purposes, the priests are declared martyrs, but as he delves into the crime, the officer finds himself asking: What if they were not martyrs? “Written in a mood of total austerity; and yet the passion of the book is perpetually beating up against its seemingly barren surface...I am deeply moved.”—Philip Roth“An extraordinary book.”—Pearl S. Buck“How wonderful that Penguin rescued this classic from obscurity.”—Josephine Park, University of Pennsylvania

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BLA INE HARDENEscape from Camp 14One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West

The shocking story of one of the few people born in a North Korean political prison to have escaped and survived.The acclaimed journalist tells the story of Shin Dong-hyuk and unlocks the secrets of the world’s most repressive totalitarian state. Shin knew nothing of civilized exis-tence—he saw his mother as a competitor for food, guards raised him to be a snitch, and he witnessed the execution of his own family. Through Harden’s harrowing narra-tive of Shin’s life and remarkable escape, he offers an unequaled inside account of one of the world’s darkest nations and a riveting tale of endurance, courage, and survival.

JOHN BALCOM, ed i t o rShort Stories in Chinese: New Penguin Parallel Text

A dual-language edition of eight Chinese stories—many appearing in English for the first time—by both new and established writers. Works include: “O Xiangxue” by Tie Ning; “The Ancestor” by Bi Feiyu; “Dog” by Cao Naiqian; “Plow Ox” by Li Rui; “The Mistake” by Ma Yuan; “Lanterns for the Dead” by Jiang Yun; “Greasy Moon” by Jia Pingwa; “Receiving the Precepts” by Wang Zengqi.

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MICHAEL EMMERICH , ed i t o rShort Stories in Japanese: New Penguin Parallel Text

Works include: “Concerning the Sound of a Train Whistle in the Night, or On the Efficacy of Fiction” by Murakami Haruki; “A Little Darkness” by Yoshimoto Ba-nana; “Genjitsu House” by Koike Masayo; “The Silent Traders” by Tsushima Yūko; “Mogera Wogura” by Kawakami Hiromi; “The Maiden in the Manger” by Abe Ka-zushige; “Where the Bowling Pins Stand” by Ishii Shinji; “Love Suicide at Kamaara” by Yoshida Sueko.

BICH MINH NGUYENStealing Buddha’s Dinner: A Memoir

A Vietnamese girl’s coming of age in Michigan, following her family’s migration from Saigon in 1975. “About one Vietnamese refugee navigating U.S. culture as well as an exploration of identity….[Nguyen] pays equal attention to the rhythm and poignancy of language to build her story as she does the circumstances into which she was born.”—Los Angeles Times“Only a truly gifted writer could make me long for the Kool Aid, Rice a Roni, and Kit Kats celebrated in...this charming, funny, original memoir about growing up as an outsider in America.”—Judy Blume

Also available: Short Girls 978-0-14-311750-6

WENGUANG HUANGThe Little Red Guard: A Family Memoir

“This memoir of coming of age in an ordinary Chinese family amid the social and political wreckage of Mao’s Cultural Revolution is uncommonly wise and deeply moving.”—Philip Gourevitch“A remarkable memoir….[with] an ingenious dramatic structure, which reveals the tensions and emotional struggles within his family....Huang tells it with extraordi-nary candor, acuity, and the cruel irony of life.”—Ha Jin, author of War Trash

AMY CHUABattle Hymn of the Tiger MotherAt once provocative and funny, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother set off a global parenting debate with its story of one mother’s journey in strict parenting. Chua argues that Western parenting tries to respect and nurture children’s individual-ity, while Chinese parents typically believe that arming children with skills, strong work habits, and inner confidence prepares them best for the future.“A candid, provocative, poignant and vicarious journey through the Chinese-American family culture. It will leave you breathless with its bluntness and emotion.”—Tom Brokaw

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IR IS CHANGThe Chinese in America: A Narrative History

In an epic story that spans 150 years, Chang tells of a people’s search for a better life—the determination of the Chinese to forge an identity and a destiny in a strange land and, often against great obstacles, to find success.“I know of no better introduction to this multilayered and emotionally charged story.”—Jonathan D. Spence, Yale University “The Chinese-American’s struggle for success, its cost and tenuousness, are major themes in Chang’s panoramic history.”—San Francisco Chronicle

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