| Prizes |
Winner of Anisfield-Wolf Book Award 2008, Winner of Asian American Literary Awards: Fiction 2008, Winner of English-Speaking Union of the United States Ambassador Book Awards: Fiction Category 2008, Winner of The South Bank Show Awards: Literature 2008, Commended for Australia-Asia Literary Award 2008, Short-listed for International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2009, Short-listed for The South Bank Show Awards: Arts Council England Decibel Award 2008, Short-listed for T.R. Fyvel Book Award 2008, Short-listed for James Tait Black Memorial Book Prize: Fiction 2008, Short-listed for Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book - Eurasia 2008 |