Review:This is a powerful translation. As a person raised in Hawaii during the sixties my interest in the authors take on racism was shaded with my own experiences. Well written with Japanese simple clarity and Korean attitude. Read more

Review:It’s 1996. Two brothers, ten and thirteen, walk into a busy Delhi market with their twelve-year-old friend. The brothers are Hindu, the friend, Muslim. As they arrive, a terrorist bomb explodes, instantly killing the two brothers but only slightly wounding their friend. Karan Mahajan’s novel, The Association of Small Bombs, explores the consequences of this attack from every perspective over the years that follow. He traces the lives of the brothers’ parents, the surviving boy and his parents, t... Read more

Review:I could see this maybe being helpful for someone completely new to Buddhism as a starting point to get familiar with the vocabulary of Buddhism, but I found the content and presentation style to be a bit odd. In some places it seems like the rich storytelling tradition behind Buddhism gets flattened into single sentences. The story of the life of Siddhārtha Gautama (of which countless volumes have been written) gets condensed into literally half an awkward paragraph. In other places the author d... Read more

Review:This is a fantastic story! If you have not already checked out the anime, stop what you are doing right now and go find it and watched it! Are you still here? Why aren't you watching it?! All joking aside this is a superb story. I got hooked on the anime and just bought the Kindle version light novel yesterday but it follows the anime almost verbatim. If you are looking for a phenomenal story packed full of humor, adventure, action and a whole lot of heart, I say again, check this out! For thos... Read more

Review:Jane Hirshfield's essay brings a reader a new appreciation of the elegance of Basho's verses. The master's gems gain both power and beauty when one learns of the context and conventions of their creation. Dozens of insights for only ninety-nine cents. Such a deal! Read more

Review:Nectar in a Sieve, written in 1954, is surprisingly not the least bit dated. There are a number of core themes. Its primary resonance for me lay in the bond between this husband and wife, which ultimately left me feeling that despite their extraordinary trials, these people were at least as lucky as they were not. It is historically and more fundamentally a story set in a time when life in India was rapidly changing, modernizing. This couple's difficulties largely resulted from the introduction ... Read more