Quick trouble for a free-thinking family in rural Qing-Dynasty China.
“Qiezi.” Fiction
The Mustachioed Woman of Shanghai. A novel.
Exotic woman unleashes the emotions in those she comes into contact with.
The Kitchens of Canton. A novel
Dystopian satire distilling the worst of our present and future into a strangely seductive maze of a story.
The Exact Unknown and Other Tales of Modern China
This pioneering collection of delightfully disturbing tales by one unruly foreigner dredges up comedy blacker than a black hole.
Lust & Philosophy. A novel
Debut autobiographical novel will appeal to fans of Hermann Hesse, Philip K. Dick, J. G. Ballard and other novelists of the uncanny.
Newsex. A dramatic farce
X-rated dramatic farce set in a sexual re-education camp in a future Liberated California Republic.
Gu Cheng, selected poems (trans. Isham Cook & Zhao Shufen)
China’s mad poet who savagely murdered his wife.
The Kitchens of Canton. A novel. Ch. 1: New Gary, IN
The protagonist discovers he’s a convicted pedophile incarcerated in the city-wide concentration camp of former Gary, Indiana.
The Kitchens of Canton. A novel. Ch. 2: Xinluoma
The protagonist finds himself enslaved in a full-scale replica of Ancient Rome in China.
The Kitchens of Canton. A novel. Ch. 3: Zigaago
The protagonist finds himself enslaved in a Cantonese-speaking Chicago 100 years in the future.
The Kitchens of Canton. A novel. Ch. 4: Chicago
A bullet removed from the protagonist’s brain is replaced with a pedophile-tracking nanochip.
The Kitchens of Canton. A novel. Ch. 5: Xinluoma
The protagonist slave gets a tour of China’s Ancient Rome and trains in massaging its female patrons.
The Kitchens of Canton. A novel. Ch. 6: Gwongzau
The condemned protagonist is fattened up during the ocean crossing to Canton.
The persistent. A short story
What happens when one gets sexually involved with women of the obsessive variety.
The exact unknown. A short story
A casual affair with a student engenders inexplicable difficulties.
ISHAM COOK 