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By Michael Hickey Last updated 2011-02-17
In the Time of Madness is arguably the most compelling book written about Indonesia in the late 20th century. ... Prabda Yoon won the prestigious SEA Write Award for Even if you’re not a fan of science fiction—it’s certainly not a genre we usually pick up—if you’re interested in Thailand and in particular the craziness of Bangkok and where it might be headed as we hurtle into the decades ahead, The Windup Girl makes for a good dystopian read. "She had listened, and she had looked, all her senses attuned to the signals they put on, signals she kept recorded somewhere deep inside.
“They know of no artifice,” Mama said. How does she balance fame with her fraught childhood? No one is safe. Khin, a Karen woman, finds herself in the center of a pattern of desire and responsibility. Published in 2004 and set mostly in Kuala Lumpur in 1972, My Life As a Fake, by Australian Booker-prize winning author Peter Carey, is at its heart the tale of an Australian literary hoax and its reverberations into the present. Louisa’s mixed-race heritage makes her an obvious symbol of the country’s future, but even Louisa herself sees through the artifice as the country descends into dictatorship and she allies herself with guerrilla fighter Lynton (who was once her mother’s lover—this is not a prudish book).How to live through hardship is another gently recurring theme.
The Karen fought on the side of the Allies during World War II, but were betrayed by the British who had promised them an independent nation. If you’re looking for a page-turning description of what it used to be like to travel and eat in Vietnam or Cambodia as a hungry and curious white American dude back in the day, then Anthony Bourdain’s 2001-published Rebecca Solnit’s beautiful collection of nine essays, The underpinnings of Southeast Asia’s various economies—and by extension, societies—are superbly explained by Joe Studwell in this comprehensive look at the tycoon families of Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines. Eating Viet Nam: Dispatches from a Blue Plastic Table is a memoir of avid street-food-diner-turned-blogger Graham Holliday.
Often, stories as deeply rooted in history as this one become mired in it. "In passages like this, readers feel the ways in which the turbulent era affects its youngest. They're never precious caricatures, but solid people in their own right. It’s generally hard to marry a novel to a strong political agenda and have it come out unscathed.
... It’s more than a decade old, but 2005-published Very Thai: Everyday Popular Culture by Philip Cornwel-Smith remains a fun, offbeat examination of ordinary Thai lifestyles and culture.
In its descriptions of the physical damage that we're capable of inflicting on one another, The youngest can find themselves at risk, too.
Shaped by events that often seem unreasoned or undeserved, the children record all "somewhere deep inside," and have to grapple with decoding the signals they receive from their parents and the world.The most outstanding of these children is Louisa, who becomes Miss Burma, a symbol of a country moving resolutely forward. Under the Volcano by Cameron Forbes is one of the better easy-reading histories and modern reportage books on Bali.
We admit to thinking this on hearing about The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen, but given it won the Pulitzer prize for fiction earlier this year (and being suckers for literary prizes), we had to give it a read.
... Set in and around soon-to-be-demolished Block 204 in Singapore, If I Could Tell You, by Jing-Jing Lee, is a series of vignettes of ordinary people going about their everyday lives in the city state. The novel includes a focus on a long-persecuted ethnic group called the Karens.
Hot Sour Salty Sweet combines cookbook with travelogue and when it was published in 2000, it became an instant classic, the definitive introduction to foods of Southeast Asia, the go-to for recipes.
This Earth of Mankind is the first of Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s Buru Quartet series. ... Black Water by Louise Doughty is a beautiful novel tracing the life of "John Harper", a name chosen by the son of an Indonesian-Dutch couple when he becomes an “operative” for the Amsterdam-based Institute.
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