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    This document provides a summary of 10 books by Asian authors that have been longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize. It summarizes each book in 1-2 sentences, highlighting their central themes and stories. The books cover a wide range of topics from the difficult lives of women in Communist China to a love triangle on Indian coffee plantations to a Filipino novel about the Moro rebellion.

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    10 Asian authors you need

    to know: the Man Asian


    Literary Prize longlist
    1. “Three Sisters,” by Bi Feiyu
    Through the stories of
    three sisters – daughters
    of a lecherous
    Communist Party
    secretary – popular
    Chinese novelist and
    screenwriter Bi Feiyu
    explores the difficult lives
    of women in
    Communist China in the
    1970s and 80s.
    2. “Way to Go” by Upamanyu Chatterjee
    "Way to Go" is a darkly comic
    novel by Indian
    novelist Upamanyu
    Chatterjee (author of "English,
    August") and a sequel to "The
    Last Burden," Chatterjee's
    1994 novel. Both works
    satirize contemporary Indian
    life. At the center of both is a
    dysfunctional family of two
    brothers with a father who –
    in "Way to Go" – mysteriously
    disappears one morning.
    3. “Dahanu Road,”
    by Anosh Irani

    In "Dahanu Road" Anosh Irani


    – Indian by birth, but now a
    longtime resident of Canada –
    tells the story of three
    generations of Persians who
    have become landowners in
    the country outside Bombay,
    and how their lives are
    upended by the mysterious
    death of a tribal worker on
    their estate.
    4. "Serious Men,” by Manu Joseph

    This debut novel is a powerful


    exploration of questions of
    class in India. "Serious Men"
    tells the story of a Dalit
    (untouchable) secretary who
    works for a high-class
    Brahmin at Bombay's Institute
    of Theory and Research and
    invents stories about his
    disabled son in a desperate
    effort to advance socially.
    5. “The Thing About Thugs,” by Tabish Khair

    Set in Victorian England,


    this work by Indian poet-
    novelist Tabish Khair tells
    the story of an Indian
    villager who travels
    to London with an English
    captain and fascinates him
    with the story of his life as
    a murderous thug.
    6. “Tiger Hills,” by Sarita Mandanna
    This debut novel by Indian
    author Sarita Mandanna –
    which is set on the coffee
    plantations and in the small
    villages of Coorg in
    southern India and has been
    described as India's "Gone
    with the Wind" – tells the
    story of a love triangle
    involving two young people
    and a renowned tiger hunter.
    7. “The Changeling,” by Kenzaburo Oe

    Japanese Nobel
    laureate Kenzaburo Oe takes
    the real-life suicide of film
    director Juzo Itami (who was
    also Oe's close friend and
    brother-in-law) and spins
    around it a roman à clef that
    takes the main characters
    back to their past and their
    previous entanglement with a
    right-wing paramilitary group.
    8. “Hotel Iris,” by Yoko Ogawa
    This darker novel by the
    Japanese author of the
    charming "The
    Housekeeper and the
    Professor" explores
    questions of obsession
    and insecurity in this story
    of a teenage hotel worker
    and a middle-aged
    translator.
    9. “Monkey-man,” by Usha K.R.
    Indian novelist Usha K.R. uses
    the real story of reports of a
    strange "monkey-man"
    supposedly spotted in various
    locales across India in 2000 to
    explore the challenges faced
    by urban India at the dawn of
    a new millenium. As a setting
    Usha relies on her own
    city, Bangalore, and highlights
    its dizzying evolution into
    high-tech center.
    10. “Below the Crying
    Mountain,” by Criselda Yabes

    This novel by Filipina


    journalist and five-time
    author Criselda
    Yabes deals with the Moro
    rebellion in the
    southern Philippines.

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