Books that I recommend reading.
With acute social insight, Chen layers years of experience reporting in China with incantatory prose in this taut debut, proving herself both a remarkable cultural critic and an accomplished literary voice.
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For more than ten years, a mysterious and violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, where he perpetrated ten sadistic murders. Then he disappeared.
When teacher Yuko Moriguchi announces that the death of her daughter was no accident, she sets off a chain of events that will change her students lives forever.
A collection of texts exploring the ideology of celebrity and death in a surreal state that only J.G. Ballard can achieve.
A dissolute Frenchman discovers the true depths of degradation beyond his prior bourgeois imaginings.
In search of serial killer Buffalo Bill, the FBI is forced to turn to an old adversary – Hannibal Lecter.
Frank, an American tourist, has hired Kenji to take him on a guided tour of Tokyo’s sleazy nightlife. But Frank’s behaviour is so strange that Kenji begins to entertain a horrible suspicion.
After her father’s failed suicide attempt, Jane is assigned to foster parents who are deeply involved in the Second Day Believers cult.