Tilted Axis

Book Reviews

• Capitalists Must Starve (Park Seolyeon)
  - a biographical novel about an activist in 1920s Korea
• Happy Stories, Mostly (Norman Erikson Pasaribu)
  - young, gay Batak students and their mothers
• *Manaschi (Hamid Ismailov)
  - a Kyrgyz story, modern and traditional
• *Tokyo Ueno Station (Yu Miri)
  - down and out in Tokyo and Fukushima
• Tomb of Sand (Geetanjali Shree)
  - from family comedy to the politics of partition
• Women Dreaming (Salma)
  - a divorce in a poor Muslim village in Tamil Nadu