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Gitanjali : Song Offerings
Sir Rabindranath Tagore
Paperback - $33.95
A Collection of Prose Translations made by the author from the original Bengali. Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 for this book of prose. Tagore is an artist of rare lyrical powers, who understands the human soul. Tagore's po ...
Women Writing in India : 600 B.C. to the Present, V
Susie J. Tharu
Paperback - $64.95
These ground-breaking collections offer 200 texts from 11 languages, never before available in English or as a collection, along with a new reading of cultural history that draws on contemporary scholarship on women and on India. This extraordinary b ...
The Complete Kama Sutra : The First Unabridged Modern Translation of the Classic Indian Text
Mallanaga Vatsyayana
Hardcover - $47.95
The oldest and most widely read guide to the pleasures of sexuality, the Kama Sutra deals with all aspects of sexual life, and was compiled from texts dating to the fourth century B.C. In contrast to the only previously available version, Alain Danie ...
Going Home to a Landscape : Writings by Filipinas
Marianne Villanueva
Paperback - $30.95
This collection touches on memory, love, the sorrow of loss, and childhood joy-all viewed through the prism of a unique Asian culture that is the product of American and Spanish colonization. The anthology reflects the myriad changes faced by Filipin ...
Four Huts : Asian Writings on the Simple Life
Burton Watson
Paperback - $24.95
The short works collected in "Four Huts" give voice to one of the most treasured aesthetic and spiritual ideals of Asia— that of a simple life lived in a simple dwelling. The texts were written between the ninth and the seventeenth centuries an ...
Tian Wen : A Chinese Book of Origins
Tian Wen
Paperback - $27.95
Relatively unknown in the West, Tian Wen: A Chinese Book Of Origins is a fascinating, though often baffling, archaic collection of 186 'question about the origins of life and the meanings of a wide variety of happenings.
Stories to Caution the World : Volume 2
Shuhui Yang
Paperback - $99.95
Stories to Caution the World is the first complete translation of Jingshi tongyan, the second of three volumes of stories that were pivotal in the development of Chinese vernacular fiction. These tales, whose importance in the Chinese literary canon ...