[Book Review] President Duterte: How and Why?
![[Book Review] President Duterte: How and Why?](http://www.theasian.asia/wp-content/themes/city-desk/timthumb.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theasian.asia%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2018%2F07%2Fphilippines-1195394_960_720.jpg&q=90&w=160&h=106&zc=1 "[Book Review] President Duterte: How and Why?")
Easy answers came fast on the heels of his May 2016 election, most putting him down for a fool or a tool. Two new books take a closer look at both Rodrigo Duterte the man and the initial phase of his presidency. In A Duterte Reader, sociologist Nicole Curato gathered 19 Filipino scholars, journalists and […]
[Book Review] Charting China’s Contradictions
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The vote by the Chinese National People’s Congress in March to abolish presidential term limits marked a dramatic, if unsurprising, step along President Xi Jinping’s path toward centralizing power. As he moves to entrench his authority at home as the country’s most powerful leader since Mao Zedong, he also seeks to deepen Beijing’s imprint abroad: […]
Sonnet Mondal’s ‘Karmic Chanting’ to travel to USA and Europe
With a writer residency scheduled in August 2018 at the Sierra Neveda College, U.S.A., Sonnet Mondal looks forward to promote his book ‘Karmic Chanting’ to be released soon from Copper Coin publishers, New Delhi. The book is a collection of mystical poems penned by Mondal over a period of five years and contains endorsements from […]
[Book Review] Questioning the Role of Women in the 19th Century
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Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen, Thomas Egerton, 1813 Set in rural England in the early 1800s, Pride and Prejudice is a novel of the Bennett family’s story. The family includes a negligent father, a silly empty-headed mother, and five daughters: the eldest Jane, Elizabeth (also called Lizze and sometimes, Eliza), Mary, Kitty, and the […]
[Book Rewiev] Charles Bukowski, the Outsider Genius of the American Literature
![[Book Rewiev] Charles Bukowski, the Outsider Genius of the American Literature](http://www.theasian.asia/wp-content/themes/city-desk/timthumb.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theasian.asia%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2018%2F01%2Fbook-cover-bukowski.jpg&q=90&w=160&h=106&zc=1 "[Book Rewiev] Charles Bukowski, the Outsider Genius of the American Literature")
[Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness] Charles Bukowski, City Lights Publishers, 1972 Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness is a paperback collection of short stories written by Charles Bukowski, published in 1972. Each story is based on first-person narration, compiling stories that are personally linked to Bukowski’s own life. […]
[Book Review] Two Moons, Two Realities
![[Book Review] Two Moons, Two Realities](http://www.theasian.asia/wp-content/themes/city-desk/timthumb.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theasian.asia%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2017%2F11%2Fbook-cover.jpg&q=90&w=160&h=106&zc=1 "[Book Review] Two Moons, Two Realities")
1Q84, Haruki Murakami, Shinchosa, Japan, 2009 (book 1 & 2), 2010 (book 3) Over 900 pages in length and published in two volumes (the first containing Books 1 and 2, the second, Book 3), 1Q84 is a novel written by world-renowned author Haruki Murakami. Set in 1984 Tokyo, 1Q84 vacillates between two characters: Aomame, a […]
[Book Review] Agatha Christie, the Queen of the Crime
![[Book Review] Agatha Christie, the Queen of the Crime](http://www.theasian.asia/wp-content/themes/city-desk/timthumb.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theasian.asia%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2017%2F11%2Fsabon-Murder_on_the_Orient_Express_First_Edition_Cover_1934.jpg&q=90&w=160&h=106&zc=1 "[Book Review] Agatha Christie, the Queen of the Crime")
(Murder on the Orient Express, Agatha Christie, Collins Crime Club, 1934) Set in the 1930s, Murder on the Orient Express is a detective novel written by Agatha Christie featuring Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, a clever and private detective. Poirot is on the Orient Express but the train is caught in the snow. When one of […]
Marguerite Duras’ Universe of Love
Title: The Lover Author: Marguerite Duras Publication information: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1984 (first edition) It won the Goncourt Prize in 1984 as the semi-autobiographical novel-turned-movie directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud in 1992. Set around the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, The Lover reveals the intimacies of a clandestine romance between a fifteen-year-old girl from […]
Ximen Nao’s six reincarnations under the Chinese Communist Party
Life and death are wearing me out Mo Yan, Arcade Publishing (Eng. trans.), 2008, In 1948, Ximen Nao, a rich landowner, was executed by the sharecroppers who were working for him. He felt he had been unjustly murdered since he thought he had been an excellent landlord. After spending two years in the […]
Putin: I don’t read books about myself
Russian President Vladimir Putin says he hasn’t read a single book about himself as he already knows everything about himself. On June 7, Putin attended an international media forum in Moscow. He met German journalist Hubert Seipel who wrote a book about Russian leader. “I don’t know why Mr. Seipel did it. I warned him […]
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