An anthology of short stories about teachers by Malaysian teachers.

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In these spellbinding stories, Yiyun Li, Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award winner and acclaimed author of A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and The Vagrants, gives us exquisite fiction filled with suspense, depth, and beauty, in which history, politics, and folklore magnificently illuminate the human condition.

In the title story, a professor introduces her middle-aged son to a favorite student, unaware of the student’s true affections. In “A Man Like Him,” a lifelong bachelor finds kinship with a man wrongly accused of an indiscretion. In “The Proprietress,” a reporter from Shanghai travels to a small town to write an article about the local prison, only to discover a far more intriguing story involving a shopkeeper who offers refuge to the wives and children of inmates. In “House Fire,” a young man who suspects his father of sleeping with the young man’s wife seeks the help of a detective agency run by a group of feisty old women.

Written in lyrical prose and with stunning honesty, Gold Boy, Emerald Girl reveals worlds strange and familiar, and cultures both traditional and modern, to create a mesmerizing and vibrant landscape of life.

A troubled young man commits the perfect crime - the murder of a vile pawnbroker no one will miss. Raskolnikov is desperate for money but convinces himself that his motive for the killing is to benefit mankind. So begins one of the greatest novels ever written, a journey into the criminal mind, a police thriller and a philosophical meditation on morality and redemption.

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ISBN8956600740

ISBN 978-0-00-720548-6
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Winner of the Blue Peter Book Award in 2005

The amazing story of Haoyou, strapped to a kite and sent to fly among the clouds and the spirits of the dead. This is a book unlike anything else you have ever read, full of the sights, sounds and smells an ancient China, with an epic, adventurous, incredibly moving story

From Marilyn Monroe to Mao Tse-Tung, the "Book of Quotations is a fascinating and entertaining selection of quotes from some of the world's wittiest and wisest people--writers, philosophers, statesmen and women, actors and many others. Hardcover. Price includes postage.

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