Classics / Asian literature

The Tale of the Heike

by Royall Tyler

A masterpiece of world literature; the samurai saga of pride, romance, and warfare of medieval Japan

With a reflection on the fleeting nature of power and glory begins The Tale of the Heike, an epic from twelfth-century...

Ghosts

by SEINEE SAOWAPHONG

Sai Seema, a lawyer from the paddy fields, 

has his work cut out for him helping his farming relatives 

and convincing his lover's aristocratic parents 

that he deserves her hand. 

This prophetic, 1953 novel...

The circus of life

by ARKARTDAMKEUNG RAPHEEPHAT

The disaffected son of a Thai aristocrat 

goes to study law in London in the early 1920s, 

only to fall in love with an English journalist and become a reporter. 

In England, France, the US, Japan and China, ...