Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Asian American

Cody Quan achieved the model minority dream. In his early twenties, he had his own house, a decently paying job and a clean record. But through the insistence of a new intern named Mindy, he took a bold first step into breaking out of his comfort zone, making new friends, new loves and even eventually running into the wrong people. With a style that invokes wit, charm, honest and sarcasm, author Louis Leung details the plight of the modern-day Asian-American male who journeys beyond the bamboo ceiling.

A deaf child discovers to her delight that she can communicate with zoo gorillas in her native language. An old man grieving for his departed wife looks to the giant turtle in Hanoi's sacred lake for solace, believing it to be a god. An American scientist searches the mountains and rivers of Sumatra for signs of an otter believed to be extinct. A young man finds a surprising connection to his Vietnamese heritage when he takes up the acrobatic sport of parkour, motivating him to re-learn his forgotten first language.

In rich and vivid prose across twelve stories, men and women are...

When he gets out of jail for the seventh time, Yaqub Shah aka Jack King—from Chicago—vows never to go back again. Fed up of running small-time scams for other people, he convinces his law-abiding guardian, Uncle Jalal, that he wants to sort out his life and return to Pakistan. What he really has in mind is a blockbuster heroin deal—sourcing product from the motherland, and supplying to the Midwest in America—which will let him retire as the ‘King of Chicago.’ 

Heading back to the place of a painful past—his dear mother long gone and an...

Major General Lee Chinh started at the mirror, wondering what she had seen in him. His damaged body should have repelled her, yet she had loved him anyway. But now, Hope had been taken from him, along with the unborn child that had filled his mind with such expectation and anticipated joy. How could he ever be whole again without her? What value or future did the life hold for him now? How could someone who was so damaged ever be reclaimed? Chinh would discover the answer to these questions, half a world away, where a stranger, living in the country he had once considered his enemy, was...