Asian fiction (3)
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A Dictionary of Maqiao
by Han Shaogong
From the daring imagination of one of China’s greatest living novelists comes a work of startling power and originality–the story of a young man “displaced” …
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Empress
by Shan Sa
Empress Wu, China's only female emperor, rises from a humble clan and position of concubine to brave the intrigues, betrayal, and violence of the court …
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Three Generations
by Yom Sang-Seop
Touted as one of Korea’s most important works of fiction, Three Generations (published in 1931 as a serial in Chosun Ilbo) charts the tensions in …
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The Glass Palace
by Amitav Ghosh
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND LOS ANGELES TIMES “A rich, …
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Fragrant Harbor
by John Lanchester
It is 1935, and Tom Stewart, a young Englishman with a longing for adventure, buys himself a cheap ticket aboard the SS Darjeeling-en route to …
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Masks
by Fumiko Enchi
A stunning and understated debut novel of seduction and infidelity about a woman who, devastated by the death of her son, takes an increasing interest …
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Memoirs of a Geisha
by Arthur Golden
A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant debut novel tells with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan's most …
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Inheritance: A Novel
by Lan Samantha Chang
In 1931 China, two young sisters, abandoned after their mother's suicide, promise never to leave each other. Set against the backdrop of political chaos and …
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The Harmony Silk Factory
by Tash Aw
Joseph Conrad, W. Somerset Maugham, and Anthony Burgess have shaped our perceptions of Malaysia. In Tash Aw, we now have an authentic Malaysian voice that …
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
by Dai Sijie
New York Times Bestseller Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is an enchanting tale that captures the magic of reading and the wonder of romantic …
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Still Life With Rice
by Helie Lee
In this radiant memoir of her grandmother's life, Lee recreates a culture that is both seductively exotic and strangely familiar. Lee's desire to recover the …
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Comfort Woman
by Nora Okja Keller
Possessing a wisdom and maturity rarely found in a first novelist, Korean-American writer Nora Okja Keller tells a heartwrenching and enthralling tale in this, her …
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The Bonesetter's Daughter
by Amy Tan
““As compelling as Tan’s first bestseller, The Joy Luck Club. . . No one writes about mothers and daughters with more empathy than Amy Tan.” …
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The Floating World
by Cynthia Gralla
Liza, a young American student in Japan, meets a group of neophyte geisha who practice a dark and violent art that draws Liza into a …
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Breaking the Tongue
by Vyvyane Loh
"Dramatic....One of the most ambitious and accomplished debut novels in recent memory."--Kirkus Reviews, starred review.
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Snow Country
by Yasunari Kawabata
This masterpiece from the Nobel Prize-winning author and acclaimed writer of Thousand Cranes is a powerful tale of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty …
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Plum Wine
by Angela Davis-Gardner
Bottles of homemade plum wine link two worlds, two eras, and two lives through the eyes of Barbara Jefferson, a young American teaching at a …
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Middle Heart
by Bette Bao Lord Enterprises, Inc.
"TRULY MOVING . . . BETTE BAO LORD IS AT HER STRONGEST." --The Boston Globe In 1932, as China shamefully kowtows under Japanese occupation, three …
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Blue Poppies
by Jonathan Falla
Journeying to a remote Tibetan village to help construct a radio post, Jamie Wilson, a former WWII radio operator, falls in love with Puton, a …
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Flashman and the Dragon
by George MacDonald Fraser
“Flashman strikes again… Wonderful… hilarious.”—USA Today Lusting after a clergyman’s wife, smuggling opium to Hong Kong, coupling with an Amazonian woman river pirate, groveling before …
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Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
by Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
In the 1920's a Chinese youth from the country comes to Chungking with his mother where the bustling city offers adventure and his apprenticeship to …
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The Teahouse Fire
by Ellis Avery
This sweeping debut novel drawn from a history shrouded in secrets follows two women--one American, one Japanese--whose fates become entwined in the rapidly changing world …
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The Snow Fox
by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
A great samurai and a beautiful poet fall in love in this novel of medieval Japan that examines a renewed love that's fraught by the …