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2007 (Fiction)

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami

Review
"A warning to new readers of Haruki Murakami: You will become addicted . . . [His] newest collection is as enigmatic and sublime as ever." Jenna Krajeski, San Francisco Chronicle (read more)

2007 (Nonfiction)

Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

Review
"'[B]y delivering what his country will not, Mortenson is 'fighting the war on terror the way I think it should be conducted,' [coauthor] Relin writes. This inspiring, adventure-filled book makes that case admirably." Kirkus Reviews (read more)

2006 (Fiction)

The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea

Review
"The Hummingbird's Daughter breathes with life, populated with multiple, complex and genuinely individual characters.... [A] classic, a tribute and love song to the colorful and vibrant heart of all things Mexican." The San Francisco Chronicle (read more)

2006 (Nonfiction)

The Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia by Piers Vitebsky

Synopsis
In this acclaimed work, the anthropologist Piers Vitebsky offers a unique account of the Eveny, nomads who live in intimate partnership with an extraordinary animal. For centuries reindeer have provided the Eveny with food, fur, transport, and spiritual sustenance, enabling them to survive in the world's coldest inhabited region, the Siberian taiga... (read more)

2005 (Fiction)

Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam

Review
"Aslam reveals–artfully and heartbreakingly–a psychology at war with itself . . . His prose is richly atmospheric, his tone engagingly introspective." Akash Kapur, New York Times Book Review (read more)

2005 (Nonfiction)

Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta

Publisher Comments
A native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us an insider’s view of this stunning metropolis. He approaches the city from unexpected angles, taking us into the criminal underworld of rival Muslim and Hindu gangs; following the life of a bar dancer raised amid poverty and abuse; opening the door into the inner sanctums of Bollywood; and delving into the stories of the countless villagers who come in search of a better life and end up living on the sidewalks... (read more)

2004 (Fiction)

The Girl Who Played Go by Shan Sa

Review
"Spare prose adorned with images that linger in the mind... In this elegant translation...the dreamlike, mesmerizing alternation of voices stands in uneasy contrast to the operatic violence of the plot." Janice P. Nimura, New York Times Book Review (read more)

2004 (Nonfiction)

Dancing with Strangers: Europeans and Australians at First Contact by Inga Clendinnen

Publisher Comments
In January 1788, the First Fleet arrived in New South Wales, Australia and a thousand British men and women encountered the people who would be their new neighbors. Dancing with Strangers tells the story of what happened between the first British settlers of Australia and these Aborigines... (read more)

2003 (No Awards)

2002 (Fiction)

Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry

Review
"The reader is moved, even to tears, by these rites of passage among characters we have lived with long enough to feel as family....The exercise of compassion, by the writer and then by the reader, remains one of the novel's chief duties and complex pleasures." John Updike, The New Yorker (read more)

2002 (Nonfiction)

From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey by Pascal Khoo Thwe

Publisher Comments
In 1988, Dr. John Casey, a professor visiting Burma, meets a waiter in Mandalay with a passion for the works of James Joyce, and the encounter changes both their lives. (read more)

2001 (Fiction)

Dogside Story by Patricia Grace

Synopsis
This rich and dramatic novel by one of New Zealand's finest writers, presents a powerful picture of Maori in modern times. (read more)

2001 (Nonfiction)

River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler

Publisher Comments
In the heart of China's Sichuan province, tucked away amid the terraced hills of the Yangtze River valley, lies the remote town of Fuling. Like many other small cities in this vast and ever-evolving country... (read more)

2000 (Fiction)

Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje

Review
"It is virtually flawless, with impeccable regional details, startlingly original characters and a compelling literary plot that borders on the thriller. Ondaatje's stunning achievement is to produce an indelible novel of dangerous beauty." USA Today (read more)

2000 (Nonfiction)

Things That Must Not Be Forgotten: A Childhood in Wartime China by Michael David Kwan

Synopsis
Young David, son of his father's Swiss second wife, has been brought up first by servants and then by an English step-mother. The Japanese invasion destroys the Eurasian world of privilege in which he lives. His father serves in the pro-Japanese government while secretly, perilously, working for the Resistance. David, sent away to school, is taunted as a half-caste by the now openly xenophobic Chinese... (read more)

1999 (Fiction)

Three-Legged Horse by Cheng Ch'ing-wen

Review
"This collection of simple stories, written in simple language yet rich with vivid details, presents a gallery of portraits of disorientation, distortion, and frustration." New York Times Book Review (read more)

1999 (Nonfiction)

Catfish & Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam by Andrew X Pham

Synopsis
The award-winning Catfish and Mandala is the poignant, lyrical tale of an American odyssey--a solo bicycle voyage around the Pacific Rim to Vietnam made by a young Vietnamese-American man in pursuit of both his adopted homeland and his forsaken fatherland. (read more)