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The Exiles

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER OPTIONED FOR TELEVISION BY BRUNA PAPANDREA, THE PRODUCER OF HBO'S BIG LITTLE LIES“A tour de force of original thought, imagination and promise … Kline takes full advantage of fiction — its freedom to create compelling characters who fully illuminate monumental events to make history accessible and forever etched in our minds." — Houston ChronicleThe author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Orphan Train returns with an ambitious, emotionally resonant novel about three women whose lives are bound together in nineteenth-century Australia and the hardships they weather together as they fight for redemption and freedom in a new society. Seduced by her employer’sson, Evangeline, a naïve young governess in early nineteenth-century London, isdischarged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious NewgatePrison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded jail, she learns she is sentencedto “the land beyond the seas,” Van Diemen’s Land, a penal colony in Australia. Thoughuncertain of what awaits, Evangeline knows one thing: the child she carries willbe born on the months-long voyage to this distant land.During the journey on arepurposed slave ship, the Medea, Evangelinestrikes up a friendship with Hazel, a girl little older than her former pupils whowas sentenced to seven years transport for stealing a silver spoon. Canny whereEvangeline is guileless, Hazel—a skilled midwife and herbalist—is soonoffering home remedies to both prisoners and sailors in return for a variety offavors.Though Australia has beenhome to Aboriginal people for more than 50,000 years, the British government inthe 1840s considers its fledgling colony uninhabited and unsettled, and views thenatives as an unpleasant nuisance. By the time the Medea arrives, many of them have been forcibly relocated, theirland seized by white colonists. One of these relocated people is Mathinna, theorphaned daughter of the Chief of the Lowreenne tribe, who has been adopted bythe new governor of Van Diemen’s Land.In this gorgeous novel, ChristinaBaker Kline brilliantly recreates the beginnings of a new society in abeautiful and challenging land, telling the story of Australia from a freshperspective, through the experiences of Evangeline, Hazel, and Mathinna. Whilelife in Australia is punishing and often brutally unfair, it is also, for some,an opportunity: for redemption, for a new way of life, for unimagined freedom.Told in exquisite detail and incisive prose, The Exiles is a story ofgrace born from hardship, the unbreakable bonds of female friendships, and theunfettering of legacy. 

From the Fifty Jātaka

This book offers the first published English translations of twenty-one stories from the Thailand collection, including some of the best-known Thai stories: Sudhana-Manoharā, the Golden Conch, and Rathasena, among other quests, moral tales, strings of riddles, and story cycles.

Five Studies on Khun Chang Khun Phaen

Chris Baker is a historian and long-time resident of Thailand. Pasuk Phongpaichit is professor of economics at Chulalongkorn University. In 2010 they won the A. L. Becker Southeast Asian Literature in Translation Prize for their translation of Khun Chang Khun Phaen. Contributors: M. L. Boonlua Debyasuvarn, Cholthira Satyawadhna, Warunee Osatharom, and David C. Atherton

The Tale of Khun Chang Khun Phaen

This companion volume to the translation of The Tale of Khun Chang Khun Phaen includes alternative chapters and extensions, Prince Damrong's prefaces and reference lists of Thai terms

The Tale of Khun Chang Khun Phaen

Khun Chang Khun Phaen is one of the most famous works of old Thai literature and this first-ever translation is based on Prince Damrong's standard edition of 1917-18, with over a hundred passages recovered from earlier versions.

The Tale of Khun Chang Khun Phaen

Chris Baker formerly taught Asian history at Cambridge University and has lived in Thailand for over thirty years. Pasuk Phongpaichit is professor of economics at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, and has written widely in Thai and English on Thailand’s political economy. Together they have written and translated several works.