Category: Penguin
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θΆ FIRST IMPRESSIONS θΆ REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [REVIEW] βYou Are My Friend: On Ocean Vuongβs The Emperor of Gladnessβ by Nirris Nagendrarajah Ocean Vuong, The Emperor of Gladness, Penguin, 2025. 416 pgs. For Ocean Vuong, the critically acclaimed…
![[REVIEW] βYou Are My Friend: On Ocean Vuongβs πβπ πΈπππππ ππ πΊππππππ π β by Nirris Nagendrarajah](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/ocean-vuong-the-emperor-of-gladness.jpg?w=992)
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS For Gab Angeles, who lent me the book. Natsume SΕseki (author), Meredith McKinney (translator), Kokoro, Penguin Classics, 2010. 256 pgs. Kokoro is the final novel written by Natsume SΕseki.…
![[EXCLUSIVE] βThe Virtue of Melancholy: Reading Natsume SΕsekiβs πΎπππππβ by Ramzzi FariΓ±as](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/kokoro.png?w=1024)
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Susan Barker, Old Soul, Penguin, 2025. 352 pgs. In 2014, Susan Barker published The Incarnations, which The Independent described as βChinaβs Midnightβs Children.β Like her previous two novels, it…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] βSusan Barkerβs πππ πππ’π: A Globetrotting Horror with an Asian Sense of Eternityβ by Kevin McGeary](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/old-soul-susan-barker.jpg?w=975)
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Yasunari Kawabata (author), Haydn Trowell (translator), The Rainbow, Penguin, 2023. 400 pgs. Yasunari Kawabataβs The Rainbow, recently translated into English for the first time, evokes in me a strong…
![[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] βCarrying On: Yasunari Kawabataβs πβπ π
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π RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Jonathan D. Spence, The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution, Penguin, 1982. 560 pgs. Contrary to what the title might suggest, Jonathan D. Spenceβs…
![[REVIEW] βAn Illuminating Journey: Jonathan D. Spenceβs πβπ πΊππ‘π ππ π»πππ£ππππ¦ πππππβ by Alessia Marini](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/the-gate-of-heavenly-peace.jpg?w=979)
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πΒ RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSπΒ RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS ClickΒ HERE to readΒ all entries inΒ ChaΒ onΒ The Seven Moons. Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Penguin India, 2022. This review is cross-published with Polity. A murdered journalist “awakens” in…
![[REVIEW] “Impunity, Violence, and the Politics of Representation: Shehan Karunatilaka’s πβπ πππ£ππ πππππ ππ πππππ π΄ππππππ” by Harshana Rambukwella](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/the-seven-moons-of-maali-almeida_shehan-karunatilaka.png?w=1024)
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{Written by Ho Kin Yunn, this review is part of Issue 46 of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Desmond Kon Zhicheng-MingdΓ©, The Good Day I Died: The Near-Death Experience of a Harvard Divinity Student, Penguin, 2019. 248 pgs.…
![[REVIEW] “The Gift of Returns: Reckoning with Desmond Kon’s The Good Day I Died” by Ho Kin Yunn](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/desmond-kon_the-good-day-i-die.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by Jennifer Anne Eagleton, this review is part of Issue 46 (March/April 2020) of Cha.}Β {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Joshua Wong with Jason Y. Ng. Unfree Speech: The Threat to Global Democracy and Why We Must…
![[Review] “Unfinished Story: A Review of Joshua Wong’s ππππππ πππππβ” by Jennifer Anne Eagleton](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/unfree-speech_joshua-wong-with-jason-y-ng.jpg?w=1024)
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{Written by DragoΕ Ilca, this review is part of Issue 43 (April 2019) of Cha.} {Return to Cha Review of Books and Films.} Sheng Keyi (author), Shelly Bryant (translator), Wild Fruit, Penguin, 2018. 350 pgs. Wild Fruit is split into three…
![[REVIEW] “Building It Up So That It May Fall Again: Sheng Keyi’s ππππ πΉππ’ππ‘” by DragoΕ Ilca](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/wild-fruit-sheng-keyi-review.jpg?w=1024)
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