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Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 of The Asian Review of Books est. 2001 The Asian Review of Books
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* Contents derived from the 2023 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Podcast with Zeno Sworder, Author of “My Strange Shrinking Parents”, Nicholas Gordon , single work essay
“A Disappearance in Fiji” by Nilima Rao, Susan Blumberg-Kason , single work review
— Review of A Disappearance in Fiji Nilima Rao , 2023 single work novel ;
'During the 1910s, Hong Kong’s new Governor Francis Henry May seconded a delegation of Sikh police officers to Fiji. May had had a recent stint as Governor of Fiji and before that Captain Superintendent of the Hong Kong Police Force. He felt that Hong Kong’s police force could teach Fiji a thing or two. While it was by no means unusual for the British to employ Sikh policemen in their imperial possessions, Fiji differed in that it already had a population of Indian indentured servants who worked the sugarcane fields on a contract for five years.' 

(Introduction)

“Zadie Ma and the Dog Who Chased the Moon” by Gabrielle Wang, Melanie Ho , single work review
— Review of Zadie Ma and the Dog Who Chased the Moon Gabrielle Wang , 2022 single work children's fiction graphic novel ;

'Eleven-year-old Zadie Ma has what her younger brother Teddy calls a “superpower”: some of the stories that Zadie writes come true. It’s true of the ants whose lives Zadie saves from her mother’s wrath by writing a story about a little ant who anticipates the poison. It’s true of a fox she writes about that then appears. And now, she’s written a story about a dog named Jupiter because the only thing Zadie wants is a dog and, as she tells herself:

“If I want something bad enough I gotta make it happen… And I will” (Introduction)

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