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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957627505Author Nawashi MurakawaFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Kahboom LtdPublisher Kahboom LtdWeight(grams) 921gDimensions(mm) 250mm * 250mm * 16mm

'A towering masterpiece by a writer of genius.' IndependentIndia, 1975. An unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency. Amidst a backdrop of wild political turmoil, the lives of four unlikely strangers collide forever...

Nine teenagers flee North Korea, dreaming of a new life in the South. But the danger is far from over. With threats around every corner, perhaps the mysterious figure of Big Brother can help them? Or is he the very person they're running from? As...

A brand new edition of the smash-hit play, now a wildly popular CBC TV series. Mr. Kim is a first-generation Korean immigrant and the proud owner of Kim's Convenience, a variety store located in the heart of downtown Toronto's Regent Park neighbourhood...

A story of love tested to its limits by moral dilemmas, and the beauty and fragility of childhood friendships.1964 — Karachi, Pakistan. Rozeena will lose her home, her parents’ safe haven since fleeing India and the terrors of Partition, if her medical...

A satire on the export trade in live organs from the Third World to the West. Om is driven by poverty to sell his body parts for cash. Guards arrive to make his home into a germ-free zone. Jeetu, his brother returns unexpectedly and is taken away as the...

THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2018 GUARDIAN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2018BOOKS IN THE MEDIA BEST CRIME BOOKS OF 2018FEATURED ON CRIME TIME BEST OF THE YEAR 2018 WINNER OF THE CWA DEBUT DAGGER'[A] brilliant debut' Sunday Times Crime Club'A fresh and exciting...

'Our wars may come in many forms. On the battlefields. Within ourselves.' Mahatma Gandhi: lawyer, champion of non-violence, beloved leader. Nathuram Godse: journalist, nationalist - and the man who murdered him. Anupama Chandrasekhar's play The...

KING Yes. I shall release you - SAKUNTALA When? KING When? When, like a bee, I kiss the bud of your unbruised lip And flood my thirsting mouth with nectar. Kalidasa's play about the love of King Dusyanta and Sakuntala, a hermitage girl, their...

Published to celebrate the 30th anniversary year of Kali Theatre this is a brand new book of 30 monologues and duologues spoken by South Asian characters to be performed by actors from a South Asian/dual heritage background in auditions, workshops and...

Islam in Performance brings together six contemporary plays from Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan that highlight the political performance of Islam in South Asia, especially since the 1947 partition of the subcontinent. The plays invite comparison...

Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and soon to be back on Broadway in a revival directed by the Lion King's Julie Taymor, starring Clive Owen"A brilliant play of ideas... a visionary work that bridges the...

A story of love tested to its limits by moral dilemmas, and the beauty and fragility of childhood friendships.1964 - Karachi, Pakistan. Rozeena will lose her home, her parents' safe haven since fleeing India and the terrors of Partition, if her medical...

Introduced by Farindokht Zahedi, Associate Professor, College of Fine Arts / Theater / Faculty of Performing Arts and Music, University of Tehran. Editors Aubrey Mellor and Cheryl Robson. A wide-ranging collection of plays from new and established voices...

"First published in the United States in 1917 by Alfred A. Knopf. Inc., as Noh or Accomplishment, a study of the classical stage of Japan"--T.p. verso.Book InformationISBN 9780811201520Author Ezra PoundFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint New Directions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590178768Author K'ung Shang-jenFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

An intense domestic drama of global consequence - for India then and for our world now. 1659. Mughal India. The imperial court, a place of opulence and excess; music, drugs, eunuchs and harems. Two brothers, whose mother's death inspired the Taj...

On August 15, 1945, when the war ended, almost all of Tokyo and Osaka's theaters had been destroyed or heavily damaged by American bombs. The Japanese urban infrastructure was reduced to dust, and so, one might have thought, would be the nation's spirit,...

"Noor" is the tale of three brothers attempting to rescue their sister Noor, who has been kidnapped during Ramadan. Each brother represents a different ideological position in the contemporary Islamic world. While exploring the crisis of modern Islam,...

Although their Mongol overlords (beginning with the founding of the Yuan dynasty by Kublai Khan in 1280) tyrannized the Chinese in nearly every area of life, the arts enjoyed a new-found freedom. On the one hand oppressed, on the other released from the...

'...and all the sins of his father and his forefathers came out of his body, through the pores of his skin, in the form of crows.' When a son returns home after being accused of a violent crime, a mother is forced to confront the ghosts of her past...

"We have to be careful, we can't trust anyone. But, in the dark, your thoughts are your own." Crossing military borders and class divides, P'yongyang tells the epic love story of two North Korean childhood sweethearts spanning three decades. Chi-Soo...

Eight Plays from Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia and Cambodia Selected and Edited by Cheryl Robson and Aubrey Mellor Playwrights: Jean Tay, Floy Quintos, Tew Bunnag, Ann Lee, Nguyen Dang Chuong, Joned Suryatmoko,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772016161Author Sangeeta WylieFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Talon Books,CanadaPublisher Talon Books,CanadaWeight(grams) 152g

The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature features more than fifty short essays on specific writers and literary trends from the Qing period (1895-1911) to the present. The volume opens with thematic essays on the politics and ethics of writing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307473110Author Yukio MishimaFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Based on the Booker-shortlisted novel by Rohinton Mistry and adapted by Sudha Bhuchar and Kristine Landon-Smith, this programme text edition of A Fine Balance is published to coincide with Tamasha Theatre Company's 2007 revival and tour of the hit play...

People always think a woman who thinks for herself, who speaks her mind is dangerous. So I didn't talk about my dreams or what was in my heart. And I was scared. Scared to let you follow your dreams. I didn't know how to. But keeping quiet didn't make my...

This is the first anthology of Yuan-dynasty zaju (miscellaneous comedies) to introduce the genre to English-speaking readers exclusively through translations of the plays' fourteenth-century editions. Almost all previous translations of Yuan-dynasty zaju...

This is one of the famous dramas by Lao She. The drama is set in a typical, old Beijing teahouse and follows the lives of the owner and his customers through three stages in modern Chinese history. The play spans fifty years and has a cast of over sixty...

This book is at once a guided primer on Chinese drama and an innovative textbook. It is a companion volume to How to Read Chinese Drama, designed for Chinese-language learners.How to Read Chinese Drama in Chinese provides a versatile introduction to...

A masterpiece of eighteenth-century Japanese puppet theater, Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees is an action-packed play set in the aftermath of the twelfth-century Genji-Heike wars. It follows the adventures of the military commander, Yoshitsune,...

South Korean drama has received considerable attention in Europe and Asia, but, until recently, received only scant attention in the United States. This anthology contains early works (1989-1993) by one of Korea's leading theatre artists. These works...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898752618Author Professor Lao SheFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898751833Author Tsao YuFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the PacificWeight(grams)...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789358721751Author Mohammad Khaleel-Ur-RehmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Taemeer PublicationsPublisher Taemeer PublicationsWeight(grams) 41g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788027309504Author Rabindranath TagoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint e-artnowPublisher e-artnowWeight(grams) 422gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 17mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498016148Author KalidasaFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 395g

How far would you go to resist oppression? What would you choose to remember, and what to forget? It is 1932 in occupied Bengal. A young revolutionary prepares to storm a whites-only club in Chittagong, an act of defiance that will end in her taking her...