Authors: Mingmei Yip
Translated by: Liutkutė, Jovita
Translated from: English
Published on: 2012

,,The Silk Road song”– an impressive, and involving novel about spiritual exoticism, and secrets and human searches. This novel tells the story of this still being a little girl and while she was in Hong Kong, Lily Lin were admired by the desert, and more specifically the desert pictures. Boundless, bottomless eyes away and traveling dunes. Now, while living in New York City, working in a coffee shop and in an attempt to complete the opening of the novel, the University still attracts an unexpected windfall resulting from the proposal from her aunts. Aunt of which Lily never anything was neither heard or had known, declares niece will pay a huge amount of knowledge not just for yourself, but if Lily will agree to travel through China threatening Takla Makan desert and along the way to perform some difficult tasks. Curiosity and desire to get money, Lily agrees. More

Authors: Takumasa Ono
Translated by: Tilindytė, Lina
Translated from: English
Published on: 2012

Born in Tokyo in 1959 Takumasa Ono is a full time artist. Who has travelled to various regions of Japan and in support of enviromental protection activities, painted the nature of Japan, that he hopes will be left untouched. He also vigorously works to introduce traditional Japanese culture to foreign countries.

Author‘s book is a very detailed introduction to the japanese traditional brush painting – More

Translated by: Kugevičiūtė, Dagija
Translated from: Japanese
Published on: 2012

„Five-Coloured Deer: Japanese Folk Tales“ – a set of 35 Japanese tales, translated by Dagija Kugevičiūtė in 2012. She was still a student at the University of Newcastle, UK, at the time. It is often said that folk tales is a great way to spark the interest in the culture of a certain country, especially if the said country is as exotic as Japan.

The characters if these tales perfectly demonstrate the importance of honesty and hard work, while those greedy, lazy or More

Authors: Murakami, Haruki
Translated by: Susnytė, Ieva
Translated from: Japanese
Published on: 2011

The events of 1Q84 take place in Tokyo during a fictionalized 1984, with the first volume set between April and June, the second between July and September, and the third between October and December.

The narrative is composed of three storylines based on the three main characters of the book, Aomame and Tengo are introduced in the first book. More

Authors: Ha Jin
Translated by: Daukšienė, Ona
Translated from: English
Published on: 2011

‘Waiting’ – is a love story, which runs through the main character’s – doctor’s Lin Kong‘s life. He married the uneducated, customary, with damaged feet woman Shuyu, so that “it is simply impossible for her to leave her birth place”. Doctor Lin Kong works at a military hospital in Moody city and forbids his wife to visit him at work. His intentions are to meet her only once a year, when he gets twelve days of vacation and goes back to the village. Shuyu is humble wife, who does not complain with her man about his indifference, patiently looks after the farm and raises their daughter Hua. More

Authors: Gao Xingjian
Translated by: Biliūnaitė, Agnė
Translated from: Chinese
Published on: 2011

The Novel is about journey in Lingshan (Soul Mountain) of which storyteller heard from a person who he met on a train. The journey is written inconsistently; inserting descriptions of nature or place images, folk festivals, faiths, legends and customs. The most parts of novel begin with real events or images, but later they are deviated from the main topic. We can also find subtle mentions about the mood of the narrator, inserting his thoughts. For this reason, it seems like the storyteller moves away from mountain and comes back again. More

Authors: Pai Kit Fai
Translated by: Jakutienė, Dalė Virginija
Translated from: English
Published on: 2011

When the young concubine of an old farmer in southern  China gives birth to a daughter called Li-Xia, or “Beautiful One,” the child seems destined to become a concubine herself. Li refuses to submit to her fate, outwitting her father’s orders to bind her feet. At the age of eight she is sold to the silk weavers at Ten Willows, where she faces a life of degradation — but Li manages to escape that too, and finds a way to continue the studies that mattered so much to her lost mother.  An English sea captain, Benjamin Jean-Paul Devereaux rescues her by buying her freedom and safe passage on his ship, and she is able to fulfill her dream of literacy. They marry, defying societal norms, but in Hong Kong, Li is assaulted by an enemy of her husband, and fearing for her newborn girl, Siu-Sing, she has the child taken to safety in the mountains. More

Authors: Hong Ying
Translated by: Vaskelaitė, Ramunė
Translated from: English
Published on: 2011

“The Concubine of Shanghai“ is a historical fiction where emphasis is put on life of East Asian woman and Chinese politics. The story brings the reader through a bright picture of the main character, competition between members, distress and intrigues. Ying book is internationally accepted, though in China it would probably be forbidden. The author combines her own opinion into the storyline and makes it more readable. Nowadays we can find many books about Asian women, which become prostitutes by violence, but this book is not like that at all. Here Chinawoman has showy charisma, wisdom and is able to break the rules of the eighteenth century therefore to achieve more than any other woman. “The Concubine of Shanghai“ involves many critical themes, one of them is women rights in the nation. More

Authors: Okawa, Ryuho
Translated by: Šileikaitė, Živilė
Translated from: English
Published on: 2011

“Change Your Life Change the World” is a book for people full of spiritual advices, for people who wants to change their life. Famous Japanese spiritual teacher Ryuho Okawa proclaimed spiritual ideas of how a person should behave and feel in order to be happy. In the beginning of the book, he talks about the Great enlightenment. According to the writer, when enlightenment happened, he gained huge wisdom, important experience and understanding of the spiritual world.

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Authors: Murakami, Haruki
Translated by: Susnytė, Ieva
Translated from: Japanese
Published on: 2011

In the second part of trilogy the theme of George Orwell’s novels’ ‘1984’ still remains. Have you ever felt that someone is watching you? The Big brother or rather the Little people? The trilogy includes themes such as death, religion, history, violence, family and love.

In the second book the destinies of characters intertwines more and more becoming more realistic and complicated. Every new page of book is accompanied by impatience. More