May is Asian Heritage Month and to celebrate UBC Okanagan Library is showcasing books written by people of Asian origin. Reading is a great way to learn more about Asian communities, experiences, and stories. Check out one of the books from the display on the main floor of the library until May 30, or click on one of the titles below to learn how to borrow a copy.
 The double life of Benson Yu : a novel by Kevin Chong |
 Where the jasmine blooms : a novel by Zeina Sleiman. |
A history of burning : a novel by Janika Oza |
 The covenant of water by Abraham Verghese |
 Afterland : poems by Mai Der Vang |
Dandelion by Jamie Chai Yun Liew |
 Good talk : a memoir in conversations by Mira Jacob |
We measure the earth with our bodies by Tsering Yangzom Lama |
American dervish : a novel by Ayad Akhtar
Travels in Manchuria and Mongolia : a feminist poet from Japan encounters prewar China by Yosano Akiko
The weight of our sky by Hanna Alkaf
The boat people by Sharon Bala
Beauty plus pity by Kevin Chong
Mural by Mahmoud Darwish
A river dies of thirst : journals by Mahmoud Darwish
The forest of enchantments by Chitra Lekha Banerjee Divakaruni
The garden of evening mists : a novel by Tan Twan Eng
The daughter who walked away by Kimia Eslah
The Syrian Ladies Benevolent Society by Christine Estima
Dim Sum Palace by X. Fang
River of smoke by Amitav Ghosh
Sea of poppies by Amitav Ghosh
Exit west : a novel by Mohsin Hamid
Me by Tomoyuki Hoshino
The kite runner by Khaled Hosseini
A thousand splendid suns by Khaled Hosseini
Indigenous Pacific Islander eco-literatures edited by Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner, Leora Kava, and Craig Santos Perez
Babu fictions : alienation in contemporary Indian English novels by Tabish Khair
Salt fish girl : a novel by Larissa Lai
Drawn together written by Minh Lê ; illustrated by Dan Santat
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
The conjoined : a novel by Jen Sookfong Lee
Free food for millionaires by Min Jin Lee
Farewell, my concubine by Helen Hok-Sze Leung
Dandelion by Jamie Chai Yun Liew
A very large expanse of sea by Tahereh Mafi
Kafka on the shore by Haruki Murakami
Hotline : a novel by Dimitri Nasrallah
The refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen
The sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Race & resistance : literature & politics in Asian America by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Revenge : eleven dark tales by Yoko Ogawa
Anil’s ghost by Michael Ondaatje
The book of form and emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
A single shard by Linda Sue Park
Aurat durbar : writings by women of South Asian origin edited by Fauzia Rafiq
The god of small things by Arundhati Roy
Orientalism by Edward W. Said
Evening is the whole day by Preeta Samarasan
Story-wallah! : a celebration of South Asian fiction edited by Shyam Selvadurai
Honor by Elif Shafak
God loves hair by Vivek Shraya
Latitudes of longing : a novel by Shubhangi Swarup
They called us enemy written by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott ; art by Harmony Becker
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Em by Kim Thúy
Suki’s kimono by written by Chieri Uegaki
Afterland : poems by Mai Der Vang
American born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
A woman in the crossfire : diaries of the Syrian revolution by Samar Yazbek
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto