A recent college grad moves to Tokyo in pursuit of her all-consuming anime obsession, in a darkly humorous debut for fans of Colored Television and Big Swiss.Having recently graduated from a prestigious university, a young woman who goes by Rina moves to Tokyo to complete academic research and tutor English on the side. But this is mostly a front for her true obsession: Kagami, the cerebral master alchemist from her favorite anime.But Rina...

**WINNER OF THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATUREWINNER OF THE 2026 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZEA bittersweet story of love between two women, nested in an artful exploration of language, history, and power**May 1938. The young novelist Aoyama Chizuko has sailed from her home in Nagasaki, Japan, and arrived in Taiwan. She’s been invited there by the Japanese government ruling the island, though she has no interest in their official banquets or imperial...

In this fiendishly funny and charming novel, a young woman revisits her childhood and realizes all was not as it seemed.Tan’s attempt to write her first novel is not going well. She tries to write a memoir instead, but this involves checking her own memories against her parents and old classmates, who are surprised to hear from her after all these years. “Are you dying?” asks one perplexed friend.Tan is not dying, but she does want to figure out how many of...

A recent college grad moves to Tokyo in pursuit of her all-consuming anime obsession, in a darkly humorous debut for fans of Colored Television and Big Swiss.Having recently graduated from a prestigious university, a young woman who goes by Rina moves to Tokyo to complete academic research and tutor English on the side. But this is mostly a front for her true obsession: Kagami, the cerebral master alchemist from her favorite anime.But Rina...

Freeman Book Award WinnerGLLI Translated YA Book Prize HonoreeAn incredible true story in graphic novel form that lays bare the tortured and triumphant history of Taiwan, an island claimed and fought over by many countries, through the life story of a man who lived through its most turbulent times.Part One: Taiwan, 1930s. Tsai Kun-lin, an ordinary boy born in Chingshui, recounts a carefree childhood ...

The "glorious" sequel to Freeman Award-winning The Boy from ClearwaterAfter his imprisonment in Green Island, Kun-lin struggles to pick up where he left off ten years earlier. He reconnects with his childhood crush Kimiko and finds work as an editor, jumping from publisher to publisher until finally settling at an advertising company. But when manhua publishing becomes victim to censorship, and many of his friends lose their jobs, Kun-lin takes matters int...

WINNER OF THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATUREMay 1938. The young novelist Aoyama Chizuko has sailed from her home in Nagasaki, Japan, and arrived in Taiwan. She's been invited there by the Japanese government ruling the island, though she has no interest in their official banquets or imperialist agenda. Instead, Chizuko longs to experience real island life and to taste its authentic cuisine.Soon a Taiwanese woman—who is younger than she i...

Freeman Book Award WinnerGLLI Translated YA Book Prize HonoreeAn incredible true story in graphic novel form that lays bare the tortured and triumphant history of Taiwan, an island claimed and fought over by many countries, through the life story of a man who lived through its most turbulent times.Part One: Taiwan, 1930s. Tsai Kun-lin, an ordinary boy born in Chingshui, recounts a carefree childhood ...

In this fiendishly funny and charming novel, a young woman revisits her childhood and realizes all was not as it seemed.Tan’s attempt to write her first novel is not going well. She tries to write a memoir instead, but this involves checking her own memories against her parents and old classmates, who are surprised to hear from her after all these years. “Are you dying?” asks one perplexed friend.Tan is not dying, but she does want to figure out how many of...

This book provides comprehensive coverage of the latest trends/advances in subjective and objective quality evaluation for traditional visual signals, such as 2D images and video, as well as the most recent challenges for the field of multimedia quality assessment and processing, such as mobile video and social media. Readers will learn how to ensure the highest storage/delivery/ transmission quality of visual content (including image, video, graphics, animation, etc.) from the server to t...

Friends. Fun. Romance. Drama. Danger. Tragedy. HIGH SCHOOL.High School Writing Project 2.0 features short stories and flash fiction written by high school students about teenage characters. The stories in this edition touch on a variety of subjects including teenage suicide, mental illness, superstition, romance, and ESP.Short stories included in the anthology:Everything To Live For by Steven Roberts – When a distraught high school senior decides t...

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZEIn a small, sleepy town, a mediocre witch, in a mediocre marriage, tries to pass on her gifts to her twin daughters, who, it becomes immediately apparent, have skills far beyond her own."The Witch is classic NDiaye. Taut, spellbinding and strange, it unfolds with the disturbed logic of a fever dream." —The New York Times"The Witch is Marie NDiaye at her most dazzling. In this simple, startlin...