Asian American Heritage Month

	Celebrate Asian American Heritage Month with these recommended titles by, for and about Asian Americans. All of these library materials are owned by the Metropolitan Library System. Log on to CyberMars with your library card to reserve any titles that interest you, or ask a librarian for assistance.
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	Banquet Bug Geling Yan (Hyperion East, c2006) Shelf Number: Fiction/YAN An unemployed Chinese factory worker, Dan Dong masquerades as a journalist in order to gain invitations to free state-sponsored, gourmet banquets. In this guise, he is drawn into the middle of a conspiracy and scandal that leads from the depths of society to the highest levels of Chinese government.
	Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: Twenty-four Stories Haruki Murakami (Knopf, c2006) Shelf Number: Fiction/MUR From the surreal to the mundane, a masterful anthology of short fiction by the award-winning Japanese writer captures a full range of human experience, emotion, and relationship. These works chronicle a chance reunion in Italy, a holiday in Hawaii, a romantic exile in Greece and more.
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	Color of the Sea John Hamamura (T. Dunne Books/St. Martin’s, c2006) Shelf Number: Fiction/HAM Separated from his Japanese-American family and girlfriend by the interment practices of World War II, martial arts master Sam Hamada is recruited by the U.S. Army for a secret mission in Japan, where he finds himself torn between cultures.
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	Empress Sa Shan (Reagan Books, c2006) Shelf Number: Fiction/SHA This spellbinding historical novel chronicles the life and times of China’s only female emperor, Empress Wu. She rose from a humble clan and position of concubine to brave the intrigues, treason, betrayal, and violence of the court to become the first Empress of China during the great Tang dynasty in seventh-century China.
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	Kept: a Comedy of Sex and Manners Y. Euny Hong (Simon & Schuster, c2006) Shelf Number: Fiction/HON This first novel is about Judith Lee. Cut off by her upper-crust Korean family, she is unable to cope in the working world. Eventually she applies her manners, good looks and artistic knowledge to a vocation as a courtesan in the luxurious townhouse of Madame Tartakoff, where she is a paid companion to a classical violinist and falls in love outside of her clientele.
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	People’s Republic of Desire Annie Wang (Harper, c2006) Shelf Number: Fiction/WAN The world of contemporary China and its unique blend of traditional Chinese culture, Communist rule, and the encroachment of Western influences comes to life through the lives and loves of four professional women in modern-day Beijing.
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