The Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize
		The Award
		2000 Nominees
		Previous Winners
	Categories
		The 1999 Winner -- Fiction
		The 1999 Winner -- Nonfiction
		The 1998 Winner
		The 1997 Winner

Three-Legged Horse
by Cheng Ch'ing-wen
Our Price: $75.00

Here are 12 moving short stories about Taiwan and its people by one of the island's most popular writers, Cheng Ch'ing-wen. Focusing primarily on village life and the effects of modernization on Taiwan in the postwar years, Cheng is one of the most respected of the island's "nativist" writers, yet this is his first book to be translated into English. This anthology represents the best of his fictional efforts across a 40-year span.

1999 Winner -- Nonfiction

Catfish and Mandala
A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam
by Andrew X. Pham
Our Price: $25.00

First-time author Andrew Pham takes the reader along on a yearlong bicycle journey from California to Mexico, from Japan to Saigon, revealing his Vietnamese-American family's complicated history along the way.

The 1998 Winner

My Year of Meats
by Ruth L. Ozeki
Our Price: $23.95

Ozeki's lively first novel parallels the lives of an independent-minded Japanese-American filmmaker and a Japanese housewife bound to her traditional female role. Their serendipitous meeting forces both women to confront their views of sexual roles, relationships, media manipulation, and the cultural context of these issues on both sides of the Pacific.

The 1997 Winner

Japan
A Reinterpretation
by Patrick Smith
Our Price: $12.98

This landmark book reevaluates the picture we have held of Japan over the past half century -- as a virtual American protectorate -- by examining its culture, customs, history, and the probable shape of what is to come. Timely, measured, and authoritative, this book is a revelation of Japan's protean position in world affairs -- in the recent past and in the foreseeable future.