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Gu, Byeong-mo. Apartment Women. Hanover Square: Harlequin. Dec. 2024. 224p. tr. from Korean by Chi-Young Kim. ISBN 9781335050076. $21.99. F South Korean author Gu's (The Old Woman with the Knife) [...]

* Thanki, Asha. A Thousand Times Before. Viking. Jul. 2024. 368p. ISBN 9780593654644. $29. F DEBUT Thanki pens a lightly historical, mystical, and multigenerational tale initiated during the Partition between [...]

Sy, Cherry Lou. Love Can't Feed You. Dutton. Oct. 2024. 336p. ISBN 9780593474549. $28. F DEBUT Adding to the growing ranks of diasporic Filipino literature is this first novel from [...]

*Shin, Kyung-Sook. I Went To See My Father. Astra House. Apr. 2023.304p. tr. from Korean by Anton Hur. ISBN 9781662601378. $27. F In this long-awaited follow-up to the Man Asian [...]

* Yun, Jung. O Beautiful. St. Martin's. Nov. 2021.320p. ISBN 9781250274328. $27.99. F The second novel by Yun (author of the critically acclaimed Shelter) is a poignant work featuring 42-year-old [...]

* Otsuka, Julie. The Swimmers. Knopf. Feb. 2022.192p. ISBN 9780593321331. $23. F Distinguished best-selling novelist Otsuka's (Buddha in the Attic) latest is an introspective work that examines life's journeys from [...]

Leukocytosis in association with malignancy has been well described, but the cause is not known. One potential explanation is production of a colony-stimulating factor by the tumor, and this has been demonstrated in vitro. The authors report two patients with lung cancer, leukocytosis, and eosinophilia. The pleural fluid of both patients contained malignant cells and biologically active granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF), as demonstrated by radioimmunoassay, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), and colony-forming unit-granulocyte-macrophage (CFU-GM) assay. To determine whether GM-CSF is normally detectable in pleural fluid, the authors performed assays on an additional 11 patients with pleural effusions of various origins but without peripheral blood leukocytosis and eosinophilia; only 1 patient had a detectable level of GM-CSF (i.e., [greater than or equal to] 0.1 ng/ml). Because GM-CSF usually is not present in pleural fluid, the authors postulate that the high levels of GM-CSF found in the pleural fluid of these two patients was produced by their tumors, and production of GM-CSF by their lung cancers likely caused the leukocytosis with eosinophilia. Cancer 1992; 69:1342-1346.

* Ko, Lisa. The Leavers. Algonquin. May 2017.352p. ISBN 9781616206888. $25.95; ebk. ISBN 9781616207137. F Winner of the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, Ko's debut novel brings together [...]

Choy, Wayson. All That Matters. Other. Feb. 2007. c.432p. ISBN 1-59051-215-4 [ISBN 978-1-59051-215-9]. pap. $16.95. F Nearly a decade after the U.S. publication of Canadian author Choy's award-winning debut novel, [...]

Roy, Anuradha. Sleeping on Jupiter. Graywolf. Sept. 2016. 256p. ISBN 9781555977511. pap. $16. F Long-listed for the Man Booker Prize, this third novel (after The Folded Earth) by Roy opens [...]

Satyal, Rakesh. No One Can Pronounce My Name. Picador. May 2017. 432p. ISBN 9781250112118. $26; ebk. ISBN 9781250112132. F This second novel by Satyal (after the award-winning Blue Boy) is [...]

Buchanan, Rowan Hisayo. Harmless Like You. Norton. Feb. 2017.256p. ISBN 9781324000747. $24.95; ebk. ISBN 9781324000754. F Buchanan's debut novel is an intriguingly told tale of a mother and the son [...]

Kwok, Jean. Mambo in Chinatown. Riverhead. Jun. 2014.384p. ISBN 9781594632006. $27.95; ebk. ISBN 9781101632550. F Drawing on personal experience, Kwok follows up her New York Times best-selling Girl in Translation [...]

Lim, Shirley Geok-lin. Joss and Gold. Feminist Pr., dist. by Consortium. Aug. 2001. c.272p. ISBN 1-55861-265-3. $22.95. F This first novel by short-story writer, critic, and poet Lim (Among the [...]

Upadhyay, Samrat. Arresting God in Kathmandu. Mariner: Houghton. Aug. 2001. c.208p. ISBN 0-618-04371-3. pap. $12. F Billed as the first Nepali author writing in English to be published in the [...]

Wang, Annie. Lili: A Novel of Tiananmen. Pantheon. 2001. c.320p. LC 00-050322. ISBN 0-375-42085-1. $24. F A published author in China and an affiliate with the Washington Post's Beijing bureau, [...]

Li Qiao. Wintry Night. Columbia Univ. 2001. c.320p. tr. by Taotao Liu & John Balcom. LC 00-035882. ISBN 0-231-12200-4. $22.95. F This abridged translation of Li's original three-volume saga--consisting of [...]

Yoshimura, Akira. One Man's Justice. Harcourt. Aug. 2001. c.288p. ISBN 0-15-100639-3. $23. F The third of Yoshimura's works to be translated into English (see, e.g., On Parole, LJ 2/15/00), this [...]

Yi Munyol. Our Twisted Hero. Hyperion, dist. by Little, Brown. Feb. 2001. c.128p. tr. by Kevin O'Rourke. ISBN 0-7868-6670-5. $21.95. F Some 30 years after leaving Seoul, where he attended [...]

Lu, Alvin. The Hell Screens. Four Walls Eight Windows. 2000. c.193p. ISBN 1-56858-167-X. $22. F On the trail of a serial killer known as the Taxi Driver Killer, or simply [...]

Yamanaka, Lois-Ann. Father of the Four Passages. Farrar. Jan. 2001. c.288p. ISBN 0-374-15387-6. $24. F Known for her candid stories of troubled Asian American youths and dysfunctional families in Hawaii, [...]

Choy, Wayson. Paper Shadows: A Memoir of a Past Lost and Found. Picador: St. Martin's. Oct. 2000. c.352p. photogs. ISBN 0-312-26218-3. $24. AUTOBIOG This introspective autobiography by the Canadian author [...]

Ha Jin. The Bridegroom. Pantheon. Oct. 2000. c.256p. LC 00-028405. ISBN 0-375-42067-3. $22. F Ha Jin follows up his National Book Award-winning novel, Waiting, with a collection of a dozen [...]

Mori, Kyoko. Stone Field True Arrow. Metropolitan: Holt. Sept. 2000. c.277p. ISBN 0-8050-4080-3. $24. F The author of Shizuko's Daughter, a New York Times Best Young Children's Book, and the [...]

Yoshimoto, Banana. Asleep. Grove. Jun. 2000. c.144p. ISBN 0-80211669-8. $29.95. Sleep, love, and death serve as the central themes for each of the three short stories in Yoshimoto's (Amrita) latest [...]

* Min, Anchee. Becoming Madame Mao. Houghton. Jun. 2000. c.337p. ISBN 0618-00407-6. $25. F In her third work, Min, author of the highly acclaimed Red Azalea and Katherine, produces an [...]