The PR (English literature) and PS (American literature) call number sections on the Mezzanine of Kroch Library include poetry, short stories and novels by Asian authors writing in English, and books about Asia by travelers or foreign residents. There are also translations into Asian languages of English and American fiction. (The majority of English and American literature is in Olin, Library, including most books by such popular writers as Amy Tan, Kazuo Ishiguro, Sujata Massey. It is best to check the library catalog for the location of an author's works. Occasionally there will be a copy in both Olin and Kroch.)
Examples of fiction in Kroch Library:
Kevin Kwan Crazy Rich Asians; China Rich Girlfriend (also in Indonesian); Rich People Problems. The first was a popular movie: the sequels are also planned for filming.
Sujata Massey A Murder on Malabar Hill [The Widows of Malabar Hill] First mystery in a series featuring Perveen Mistry, Oxford-educated woman lawyer in 1920's Bombay.
Bapsi Sidhwa Cracking India: A Novel [Ice-Candy-Man]
Kiran Desai Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard; The Inheritance of Loss
Sung J. Woo (Cornell grad) Everything Asian; Love Love: A Novel; Skin Deep (mystery featuring Korean-American adoptee Siobhan O'Brien, private investigator).
Amy Tan The Bonesetter's Daughter in Chinese and Thai; Joy Luck Club in Chinese; Kitchen God's Wife in Thai.
Kazuo Ishiguro An Artist of the Floating World in Japanese.
George Orwell Animal Farm in Indonesian, Japanese; Thai, and Vietnamese
Salman Rushdie Midnight's Children; Luka and the Fire of Life
J.K. Rowling Harry Potter books in Thai, Bengali, Hindi, and Chinese,