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Yun Ling Teoh, a judge who survived a Japanese labour camp, goes up to the Cameron Highlands in 1951 to ask Aritomo, once gardener to the Emperor of Japan, to make a garden in memory of her sister.
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The Gift of Rain
Philip Hutton, the half-English son of a Penang trading family, becomes the pupil of Hayato Endo, a Japanese diplomat, in the years before the Japanese invasion of Malaya.
Moon Tiger
Claudia Hampton, a popular historian dying in a London hospital, decides to write a history of the world and of herself, and comes back to her wartime love affair in Egypt.
The Shadow King
In 1935, as Mussolini's army invades Ethiopia, Hirut, an orphaned servant girl, joins the women who fight, and helps disguise a peasant as the emperor Haile Selassie.
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
An Australian surgeon on the Burma Railway endures Japanese captivity and a death march, haunted by a love poem and the question of what makes life bearable.
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.
The Flanders Road
Georges, a cavalryman captured in the French collapse of 1940, tries to piece together the death of his captain, a distant relative, shot from ambush during the rout.
Gate of the Sun
In a makeshift hospital in the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, Khalil, a self-taught doctor, tells stories to Yunis, an old Palestinian fighter lying in a coma.
The Shadow Lines
A boy growing up in Calcutta pieces together the lives of his family across Calcutta, Dhaka and London, and a death in a riot in 1964.
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.
This Earth of Mankind
Minke, a brilliant young Javanese student at a Dutch school in colonial Surabaya in the 1890s, falls for Annelies, daughter of Nyai Ontosoroh, the formidable concubine of a Dutch planter.
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.
The English Patient
Four strangers take shelter in an Italian monastery at the end of World War II, and the intimacy of their convalescence becomes its own kind of war.