Another Kind of Paradise (Paperback)
Short Stories from the New Asia-Pacific
Well-crafted stories can provide a glimpse into the lives of characters who are relevant to all times—whether they hail from sweltering Rangoon, uber-urban Tokyo, or the provinces of South Korea. This collection of thought-provoking stories from the cutting edge of contemporary fiction is perfect for Asian literature courses or for anyone interested in literature in translation, Asian society amid the currents of globalization, or the latest voices from the Asia-Pacific world. This wide-ranging anthology includes twenty-one contemporary short stories in English from writers at the top of their craft in Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia, Bangladesh, and all over the continent. The volume includes a brief introduction to each author’s works and life, as well as a preface and bibliography.
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Reviews
Trevor Carolan’s Another Kind of Paradise is a wonderfully rich collection of some of the best contemporary fiction from East and Southeast Asia. These stories give students a direct window onto the wildly diverse cultural assumptions and influences at play in Asian societies today. Another Kind of Paradise is the perfect supplement to any course on modern Asia, or on contemporary Asian, world or comparative literature.
—Paul Ropp, Klein Professor of History and Asian Studies, Clark University
These stories present “the intersection of rapidly shifting layers of tradition and modernity . . . amidst a rapidly globalizing landscape that is erupting and taking shape in each of the countries represented. . . . What is most exciting . . . [is that] these stories are told from a perspective that privileges the characters who inhabit the worlds of the stories themselves, characters who have been traditionally marginalized and erased in the Western view of Asia
or the Pacific as a ‘paradise.'—Dr. Micheline Soong, Hawaii Pacific University
