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In short, luminous fragments, a woman remembers her childhood in Saigon, her flight from Vietnam by boat, a refugee camp in Malaysia and her new life in Quebec.
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Paradise of the Blind
Hang, a young Vietnamese woman working in a Soviet textile factory, takes the train to Moscow to see her dying uncle, and remembers a childhood in a village torn apart by land reform.
The Museum of Unconditional Surrender
A Croatian writer in exile in Berlin after the break-up of Yugoslavia assembles a novel from fragments, photographs and memories of her mother and of a country that no longer exists.
The Life of Arseniev
Alexei Arseniev, the last son of a declining gentry family, recalls his childhood on a Russian estate, his schooling and his first love, in a novel close to Bunin's own life.
Motherhood
A woman in her late thirties decides whether or not to have a child, and the decision becomes an excavation of everything she believes about freedom, selfhood, and time.
Palm-of-the-Hand Stories
Seventy very short stories Kawabata wrote across his life, few longer than two pages, of chance meetings, love, death and the turning seasons.
In the Café of Lost Youth
Four narrators circle the mystery of a young woman who vanished from a Paris café.
Tinkers
George Washington Crosby, an old repairer of clocks dying in his living room in Maine, remembers his father, an epileptic tinker who sold goods from a mule cart.
Taipei People
Stories of mainland Chinese who fled to Taiwan in 1949, generals, courtesans and servants, living on memories of the lives they lost.
The Enigma of Arrival
A writer from Trinidad settles in a cottage on a run-down estate in Wiltshire and watches the landscape and its people change over the years.
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
A Vietnamese-American man writes a letter to his illiterate mother, telling her everything: war, displacement, queerness, and the beauty he found despite it all.
Clear Light of Day
Bim, who has stayed in the family's crumbling house in Old Delhi to look after her disabled brother, is visited by her sister Tara, and they remember the summer of Partition.
So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood
Jean Daragane, an ageing writer living alone in Paris, gets a call from a stranger who has found his lost address book, and is drawn back towards a childhood he has forgotten.