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Readers of MANOA may be interested in other published works by the contributors of Crossing Over. The following is a list of selected works available to English-language readers:

• Aangan (Inner Courtyard) by Khadija Mastur
  (Kali for Women, 2000)
  “Narrated in the intimate anger of a young women’s journal-keeping voice this novel explores the politics of sex and class through the lives of women compelled to live their lives in the seclusion of the inner courtyard or aangan.” (Amazon.com Editorial Review)
• Attar of Roses and Other Stories of Pakistan by Tahira Naqvi
  (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1997)
• Boyhood Days by Rabindranath Tagore, translated by Radha Chakravarty
  (Penguin Global, 200
  Chakravarty translates Rabindranath Tagore’s recollection of his growing up years in nineteenth-century Kolkata and his early love for music and poetry.
• Bruised Memories: Communal Violence and the Writer by Tarun K. Saint
  (Seagull, 2002)
  “Poems, short stories, memoirs, essays and a panel discussion together probe how it feels when violence erupts, turning neighbors into enemies and home into an alien land.” (Amazon.com Editorial Review)
• Conversations on Modernism by Sukrita Paul Kumar
  (South Asia Books, 1990)
• Cool, Sweet Water by Khadija Mastur
  (Oxford University Press, 1999)
  “Mastur’s work, marked by a scathing, uncompromising realism, reveals a deep concern for the lives of ordinary people, especially women, who have been passed by in the rush for modernization.” (Amazon.com Editorial Review)
• An Evening of Caged Beasts: Seven Postmodernist Urdu Poets, translated by Asif Farrukhi and Frances W. Pritchett
  (Oxford University Press, 1999)
  Seven poets seek to re-invent poetry and create a new mood in the Urdu poetry from Pakistan.
• The Films of Buddhadeb Dasgupta by John W. Hood
  (Orient Longman, 2005)
• In the Shadow of the Sun by Prafulla Roy
  (Roli Books Pvt. Ltd., 2004)
• Mapping Memories, edited by Sukrita Paul Kumar
  (Katha, 199
• Narrating Partition by Sukrita Paul Kumar
  (Indialog, 2004)
• Nets of Awareness: Urdu Poetry and Its Critics by Frances W. Pritchett
  (University of California Press, 1994)
  “Pritchett’s beautiful reconstruction of the classical Urdu poetic vision allows us to understand one of the world’s richest literary traditions and also highlights the damaging potential of colonialism.” (Amazon.com Editorial Review)
• The Other Side of Silence by Urvashi Butalia
  (Duke University Press, 2000)
  “Butalia’s book is remarkable for the author’s critical analysis of her own experiences as well as of the existing literature, and for her skillful demonstration of how the memory of Partition continues to affect India today.” (Publisher’s Weekly)
• Partition Dialogues: Memories of a Lost Home by Alok Bhalla
  (Oxford University Press, 2006)
  “Alok Bhalla explores the concept of boundaries and homes through his interviews with six well-known novelists from India and Pakistan” (Publisher’s website)
• Rabindranath Tagore: The Myriad-Minded Man by Krishna Dutta
  (Pub Overstock Unlimited Inc, 2000)
  “This moving, essential biography of one of the century’s great artists profiles an individualist who brought East and West into receptive emotional and intellectual contact.” (Publisher’s Weekly)
• Satyajit Ray, The Inner Eye: The Biography of a Master Film-Maker by Andrew Robinson
  (I. B. Tauris, 2004)
• Sleepwalkers by Joginder Paul, translated by Sunil Trivedi and Sukrita Paul Kumar
  (Katha, 2002)
• Speaking Peace: Women’s Voices from Kashmir by Urvashi Butalia
  (Kali for Women, India, 2002)
  Through interviews, personal reflective pieces, and extracts from reports and books, this books draws a picture of the varied experiences of women in the Kashmir conflict.
• Tamas by Bhisham Sahni
  (Penguin Books, 2001)
  Originally written in Hindi, this novel was noted internationally for its portrayal of the riots during the Partition.
• Translating Partition edited by Ravikant and Tarun K. Saint
  (Katha, 2001)
• Without Margins: Poems and Art by Sukrita Paul Kumar
  (Promilla, 2005)

—Contributed by Sharon Fujimoto-Johnson

Where the Rivers Meet, the winter 2006 issue of MANOA, includes award-winning fiction by Alexis Wright and Roger McDonald. Wright is represented by an excerpt from Carpentaria, the novel that won the 2007 Miles Franklin Literary Award, Australia’s most prestigious literary prize. A writer, researcher, and social commentator, she is one of Australia’s best-known indigenous writers and is a member of the Waanyi nation of the southern highlands of the Gulf of Carpentaria.

“Bullock Run,” Roger McDonald’s contribution to Where the Rivers Meet, was recently selected for inclusion in the 2008 edition of Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, the prestigious American anthology series edited by Laura Furman. McDonald is the author of two books of nonfiction, Shearers’ Motel and The Tree in Changing Light, and of seven novels, 1915, Slipstream, Rough Wallaby, The Slap, Water Man, Mr Darwin’s Shooter, and The Ballad of Desmond Kale, which won the 2006 Miles Franklin Award. He lives near Braidwood, on the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales.

Andrew Lam has received Pen American’s Beyond the Margins Award for his book Perfume Dreams. His story “The Palmist,” which originally appeared in the winter 2004 issue of MANOA, was reprinted in New Sudden Fiction (Norton) and chosen by Symphony Space for “Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story.”

Symphony Space will be presenting Lam’s “The Palmist” and Ha Jin’s “A Bad Joke”—another short story published in MANOA—on January 24th. The performances will be taped live for airing on NPR’s “Selected Shorts,” a series of readings of work from New Sudden Fiction.

The summer 2006 issue of MANOA features Yoko Tawada, Nguyen Chi Thien, Martha Collins, and many other writers and translators. In this volume—illustrated with beautiful photographs of Asia by Linda Connor—prominent and emerging Asian writers talk about the conditions under which they work, their relationships with their home countries, and the convictions that guide them. Beyond Words is ideal for classes in Asian studies, creative writing, world literature, and related subjects.