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suzanne-kamata's picture
Nov.04.2012
Rendered with tenderness, humor, and an insider's knowledge of contemporary Japan, Losing Kei is the story of a love affair between and American expatriate artist and a tradition-bound Japanese family man. Melding the off-kilter cultural  misunderstandings of Lost in Translation with the...
wendy-nelson-tokunaga's picture
Sep.29.2009
Stuck.  That's how 33-year-old aspiring singer Celeste Duncan feels, with her deadbeat boyfriend and static career. But then Celeste receives a puzzling phone call and a box full of mysterious family heirlooms which just might be the first real clue to the identity of the father she never knew....
anastasia-m-ashman's picture
Feb.13.2008
As the Western world struggles to comprehend the paradoxes of modern Turkey, a country both European and Asian, forward-looking yet rooted in ancient empire, a new nonfiction anthology promises to reveal its most personal nuances. Introducing TALES FROM THE EXPAT HAREM: Foreign Women in Modern...
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Jan.09.2008
From Publishers Weekly Aspiring Cinderella Midori Saito does not heed her mother's warning-"Running off with a foreigner will bring you nothing but trouble"-in Tokunaga's delectably frothy debut. Trouble is exactly what Midori finds after following English teacher Kevin Newbury from her...