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  • Location: India

Elephant in the Dark

Mina Javaherbin’s charming and witty retelling combined with Eugene Yelchin’s refreshingly brilliant illustrations bring this enlightened classic, inspired by Rumi’s poem, vividly to life.

  • Location: Singapore

A Yellow House

2000s: A poignant coming-of-age story, through the eyes of 10 year old Maya, explores the plight of migrant domestic workers in Singapore

  • Location: Beijing, Guangdong

The Emperor of Shoes

1990s: A timely meditation on idealism, ambition, father-son rivalry and cultural revolution, set against a vivid backdrop of social and technological change.

  • Location: Java, Indonesia

This Earth of Mankind

Early 1900s: The first of the Tetralogi Buru Series

  • Location: Sri Lanka (Ceylon), Nuwara Eliya, Nuala (fictional)

Dark Clouds over Nuala

1930s: The second in the Inspector de Silva Mysteries

Featured Book

The Tumbling Girl

1876: So much sass and sexiness in one book!

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