Anthology series: Akashic Noir (Asian editions)
Editors of Asian editions (alphabetically listed): Salar Abdoh | Susan Blumberg-Kason | Assaf Gavron | Julia Goumen |
Jessica Hagedorn | Iman Humaydan | Etgar Keret | Jason Y. Ng | Hirsh Sawhney | Samuel Shimon |
Natalia Smirnova | Amy Spangler | Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan | Altaf Tyrewala | Mustafa Ziyalan
Language: English
Series: 2004 – present
Bibliographic comments: Only series anthologies set in Asian cities are listed here, in chronological order of publication.
Singapore Noir
Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, ed.
2014
< First edition, July 2014
Akashic Books
ISBN 978-1-61775-235-3
Trade paperback, 285 pages
$15.95
Notes:
• Introduction 'The Sultry City-State' by Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan.
Fiction: Colin Goh, Last Time // Donald Tee Quee Ho, Detective in a City with No Crime // Philip Jayaretnam,
Strangler Fig // Colin Cheong, Smile, Singapore // Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, Reel // Monica Bhide, Mother // S. J.
Rozan, Kena Sai // Lawrence Osborne, Tattoo // Suchen Christine Lim, Mei Kwei, I Love You // Ovidia Yu,
Spells // Damon Chua, Saiful and the Pink Edward VII // Johann S. Lee, Current Escape // Dave Chua, Bedok
Reservoir // Nury Vittachi, Murder on Orchard Road
Tel Aviv Noir
Etgar Keret, Assaf Gavron, eds.
2014
< First edition, November 2014
Akashic Books
ISBN 978-1-61775-315-2
Trade paperback, 285 pages
$15.95
Notes:
• Introduction 'The Dark Side of the Bubble' by Etgar Keret.
• First publication language is English, all stories in Hebrew translated by Yardenne Greenspan.
• Contains both genre and non-genre fiction.
Fiction: Gadi Taub, Sleeping Mask // Matan Hermoni, Women // Lavie Tidhar, The Time-Slip Detective // Deakla
Keydar, Slow Cooking // Gon Ben Ari, Clear Recent History // Antonio Ungar, Saïd the Good // Silje Bekeng,
Swirl // Shimon Adaf, My Father's Kingdom // Julia Fermentto, Who's a Good Boy! // Yoav Katz, The Tour Guide
// Alex Epstein, Death in Pajamas // Gai Ad, The Expendables // Etgar Keret, Allergies // Assaf Gavron, Center
Beirut Noir
Iman Humaydan, ed.
2016
< First edition, January 2016
Akashic Books
ISBN 978-1-61775-344-2
Trade paperback, 288 pages
$15.95
Notes:
• Introduction 'Violence of Loneliness, Violence of Mayhem' by Iman Humaydan.
• Contains both genre and non-genre fiction (undetermined).
Fiction: Tarek Abi Samra, The Bastard // Zena el Khalil, Maya Rose // Bana Beydoun, Pizza Delivery // Najwa
Barakat, Under the Tree of Melancholy // Hyam Yared, Eternity and the Hourglass // Leila Eid, Beirut Apples //
Rawi Hage, Bird Nation // Dirty Teeth, The Amazin' Sardine // Mazen Maarouf, The Boxes // Bachir Hilal, Rupture
// Hala Kawtharani, The Thread of Life // Mohamad Abi Samra, Without a Trace // Abbas Beydoun, The Death of
Adil Uliyyan // Alawiya Sobh, Scent of a Woman, Scent of a City // Marie Tawk, Sails on the Sidewalk
Manila Noir
Jessica Hagedorn, ed.
2013
< First edition, July 2013
Akashic Books
ISBN 978-1-61775-160-8
Trade paperback, 280 pages
$15.95
Notes:
• Introduction 'Femme Fatale' by Jessica Hagedorn.
• Contains both genre and non-genre fiction.
Fiction: Lysley Tenorio, Aviary // Rosario Cruz-Lucero, A Human Right // Lourd de Veyra, Satan Has Already
Bought U // Sabina Murray, Broken Glass // Angelo R. Lacuesta, After Midnight // F. H. Batacan, Comforter of the
Afflicted // Jose Dalisay, The Professor's Wife // R. Zamora Linmark, Cariño Brutal // Gina Apostol, The
Unintended // Jessica Hagedorn, Old Money // Marianne Villanueva, Desire // Eric Gamalinda, Darling You Can
Count on Me // Jonas Vitman, Norma from Norman
Graphic format: Budjette Tan, Kajo Baldisimo, Trese: Thirteen Stations
Istanbul Noir
Mustafa Ziyalan, Amy Spangler, eds.
2008
< First edition, December 2008
Akashic Books
ISBN 978-1-933-35462-0
Trade paperback, 300 pages
$15.95
Notes:
• Introduction 'Transgression and the Strait: Politics, Passion and Pain' by Mustafa Ziyalan and Amy Spangler.
• Contains both genre and non-genre fiction (undetermined).
Fiction: İsmail Güzelsoy, The Tongue of the Flames // Feryal Tilmaç, Hitching in the Lodos // Mehmet Bilâl, The
Stepson // Barış Müstecaplıoğlu, An Extra Body // Hikmet Hükümenoğlu, The Smell of Fish // Jessica Lutz, All
Quiet // Algan Sezgintüredi, Around Here, Somewhere // Lydia Lunch, The Spirit of Philosophical Vitriol //
Yasemin Aydinoğlu, One Among Us // Mustafa Ziyalan, Black Palace // Behçet Çelik, So Very Familiar // İnan
Çetin, The Bloody Horn // Tarkan Barlas, A Woman, Any Woman // Riza Kiraç, Ordinary Facts // Sadik Yemni,
Burn and Go // Müge İplikçi, The Hand
Delhi Noir
Hirsh Sawhney, ed.
2009
< First edition, September 2009
Akashic Books
ISBN 978-1-933-35478-1
Trade paperback, 297 pages
$15.95
Notes:
• Introduction 'Everyday Anguish' by Hirsh Sawhney.
• 'The Walls of Delhi' translated by Jason Grunebaum.
• Contains both genre and non-genre fiction (partially determined).
Fiction: Omair Ahmad, Yesterday Man // Radhika Jha, How I Lost My Clothes // Irwin Allan Sealy, Last In, First
Out // Ruchir Joshi, Parking // Nalinaksha Bhattacharya, Hissing Cobras // Mohan Sikka, The Railway Aunty //
Siddharth Chowdhury, Hostel // Meera Nair, Small Fry // Palash Krishna Mehrotra, Fit of Rage // Hartosh Singh
Bal, Just Another Death // Hirsh Sawhney, Gautam Under a Tree // Tabish Khair, The Scam // Uday Prakash, The
Walls of Delhi // Manjula Padmanabhan, Cull
Moscow Noir
Natalia Smirnova, Julia Goumen, eds.
2010
< First edition, August 2010
Akashic Books
ISBN 978-1-936-07006-0
Trade paperback, 280 pages
$15.95
Notes:
• Introduction 'City of Broken Dreams' by Natalia Smirnova and Julia Goumen.
• Contains both genre and non-genre fiction (undetermined).
Fiction: Anna Starobinets, The Mercy Bus // Vyacheslav Kuritsyn, Gold and Heroin // Ludmilla Petrushevskaya,
In the New Development // Andrei Khusnutdinov, Wait // Alexander Anuchkin, Field of a Thousand Corpses //
Vladimir Tuchkov, Pure Ponds, Dirty Sex, or Two Army Buddies Meet // Igor Zotov, Decameron // Gleb
Shulpyakov, The Doppelgänger // Maxim Maximov, Daddy Loves Me // Irina Denezhkina, Christmas // Sergei
Samsonov, The Point of No Return // Dmitry Kosyrev, The Coat That Smelled Like Earth // Alexei Evdokimov,
Europe After the Rain // Sergei Kuznetsov, Moscow Reincarnations
Mumbai Noir
Altaf Tyrewala, ed.
2012
< First edition, April 2012
Akashic Books
ISBN 978-1-61775-027-4
Trade paperback, 279 pages
$15.95
Notes:
• Introduction 'The Traffic-Choked Accident by the Coast' by Altaf Tyrewala.
• Contains both genre and non-genre fiction (undetermined).
Fiction: Riaz Mulla, Justice // Paromita Vohra, The Romantic Customer // Devashish Makhija, By Two // Abbas
Tyrewala, Chachu at Dusk // Ahmed Bunglowala, Nagpada Blues // Smita Harish Jain, The Body in the Gali //
Annie Zaidi, A Suitable Girl // R. Raj Rao, TZP // Avtar Singh, Pakeezah // Altaf Tyrewala, The Watchman //
Sonia Faleiro, Lucky 501 // Namita Devidayal, The Egg // Kalpish Ratna, At Leopold Café // Jerry Pinto, They
St. Petersburg Noir
Natalia Smirnova, Julia Goumen, eds.
2012
< First edition, September 2012
Akashic Books
ISBN 978-1-617-75101-1
Trade paperback, 288 pages
$15.95
Notes:
• Introduction 'Inescapable Anguish' by Julia Goumen and Natalia Smirnova.
• Contains both genre and non-genre fiction (undetermined).
Fiction: Andrei Kivinov, Training Day // Sergei Nosov, The Sixth of June // Vadim Levental, Wake Up, You're a
Dead Man Now // Alexander Kudriavtsev, The Witching Hour // Natalia Kurchatova, Ksenia Venglinskaya, Peau
de Chagrin // Lena Eltang, Drunk Harbor // Andrei Rubanov, Barely a Drop // Anna Solovey, Swift Current // Julia
Belomlinsky, The Phantom of the Opera Forever // Anton Chizh, The Nutcracker // Mikhail Lialin, Paranoia //
Pavel Krusanov, The Hairy Sutra // Eugene Kogan, A Cabinet of Curiosities // Vladimir Berezin, Hotel Angleterre
Tehran Noir
Salar Abdoh, ed.
2014
< First edition, November 2014
Akashic Books
ISBN 978-1-617-75300-8
Trade paperback, 329 pages
$15.95
Notes:
• Introduction 'The Seismic City' by Salar Abdoh.
• Contains both genre and non-genre fiction (undetermined).
Fiction: Daniel Haghighi, The Fat, Fat Story of the Fat City // Vali Khalili, Fear Is the Best Keeper of Secrets // Lily
Farhadpour, A Woman's Geography Is Sacred // Sima Saeedi, The Shelf Life of Revenge // Majed Neisi, The
Corpse Fixer // Aida Moradi Ahani, Lariyan's Day in the Sun // Salar Abdoh, The Whitest Set of Teeth in Tehran //
Javad Afhami, The Restlessness of a Serial Killer at the Finish Line // Mahsa Mohebali, My Own Marble Jesus //
Farhaad Heidari Gooran, In the Flophouse // Azardokht Bahrami, A Stoning Before Breakfast // Yourik
Karim-Masihi, Bridge of Simon // Hossein Abkenar, Not Every Bullet Is Meant for a King // Mahak Taheri, The
Groom's Return // Gina B. Nahai, The Gravedigger's Kaddish
Baghdad Noir
Samuel Shimon, ed.
2018
< First edition, September 2018
Akashic Books
ISBN 978-1-61775-343-5
Trade paperback, 291 pages
$15.95
Notes:
• Introduction 'Garden of Justice, City of Peace' by Samuel Shimon.
• Contains both genre and non-genre fiction (undetermined).
Fiction: Muhsin al-Ramli, I Killed Her Because I Loved Her // Nassif Falak, Doomsday Book // Sinan Antoon,
Jasim's File // Ahmed Saadawi, A Sense of Remorse // Salar Abdoh, Baghdad on Borrowed Time // Hadia Said,
Post Traumatic Stress Reality in Qadisiya // Hayet Raies, The Fear of Iraqi Intelligence // Mohammed Alwan Jabr,
Room 22 // Salima Salih, The Apartment // Hussain al-Mozany, Empty Bottles // Dheya al-Khalidi, Getting to Abu
Nuwas Street // Roy Scranton, Homecoming // Ali Bader, Baghdad House // Layla Qasrany, Tuesday of Sorrows
Hong Kong Noir
Jason Y. Ng, Susan Blumberg-Kason, eds.
2018
< First edition, December 2018
Akashic Books
ISBN 978-1-61775-672-6
Trade paperback, 256 pages
$15.95
Notes:
• Introduction 'Behind the Neon Lights' by Jason Y. Ng and Susan Blumberg-Kason.
• Contains both genre and non-genre fiction (undetermined).
Fiction: Jason Y. Ng, Ghost of Yulan Past // Xu Xi, TST // Marshall Moore, This Quintessence of Dust // Brittani
Sonnenberg, The Kamikaze Caves // Tiffany Hawk, You Deserve More // James Tam, Phoenix Moon // Rhiannon
Jenkins Tsang, One Marriage, Two People // Charles Philipp Martin, Ticket Home // Christina Liang, A View to Die
For // Feng Chi-shun, Expensive Tissue Paper // Shannon Young, Blood on the Steps // Shen Jian, Kam Tin Red
// Carmen Suen, Fourteen // Ysabelle Cheung, Big Hotel
