"In modern-day Cambodia, a gold-leaf manuscript is found - telling of historical King Jayavarman - but it sparks off violence. A sensitive examination of Cambodia's troubled past and present."
"Expats and locals in Japan reach turning points in their lives, encountering the real and the strange on the way: ghosts, messages left in hotel rooms, & more."
"A lyrical telling of trickster Susanoo-no-Mikoto's fall from heaven in search of his mother across Japan, and of the girls in an eight-headed monster's stomach."
"A fantasy novel set in a strange world lightly influenced by India, just enough to give it a pleasantly different feel to most fantasy novels. That and its interesting plot make it worth a read."
"A short story instead of a novel: "Oblivion: A Journey" by Vandana Singh, a quest through a far-future world inspired by the Ramayana. The rest of the anthology is strong."
