Asia

Books that are set in Asia. Some popular settings for Asian books are China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Japan, Phillipines, Vietnam, Iran, and Thailand

New Releases Tagged "Asia"

Japanese Gothic
Honey in the Wound
Deathly Fates
Tailbone
Korean Messiah: Kim Il Sung and the Christian Roots of North Korea's Personality Cult
Under Water
The Book of Fallen Leaves (The Autumn Empire, #1)
The Dragon and the Sun Lotus (The Three Realms, #2)
The Complex
Prodigal Tiger
Tojo: The Rise and Fall of Japan's Most Controversial World War II General
Strange Houses (Strange Houses, #1)
Strange Pictures
Crying in H Mart
Strange Buildings (Strange Houses, #2)
The Poet Empress
A Guardian and a Thief
The Covenant of Water
Mother Mary Comes to Me
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop
Flashlight
We'll Prescribe You a Cat (We'll Prescribe You a Cat, #1)
The Lotus Shoes
We Do Not Part
Pachinko
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Vegetarian
Convenience Store Woman
Norwegian Wood
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Crazy Rich Asians (Crazy Rich Asians, #1)
The Kite Runner
The Joy Luck Club
82년생 김지영
Kafka on the Shore
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
The God of Small Things

There were quite a few returnees from Hong Kong and Macau, but... most of the two thousand plus students at our school came from South and Southeat Asia: Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos, the Philippines. They had all come back for pretty much the same reason: a strong anti-Chinese sentiment mushrooming in their countries, which had recently freed themselves from colonialism… Chinese were targeted for attack by the newly empowered natives because under colonial rule the Chi ...more
Charles N. Li, The Bitter Sea: Coming of Age in a China Before Mao

Andrew X. Pham
Nobody gives way to anybody. Everyone just angles, points, dives directly toward his destination, pretending it is an all-or-nothing gamble. People glare at one another and fight for maneuvering space. All parties are equally determined to get the right-of-way--insist on it. They swerve away at the last possible moment, giving scant inches to spare. The victor goes forwards, no time for a victory grin, already engaging in another contest of will. Saigon traffic is Vietnamese life, a continuous c ...more
Andrew X. Pham, Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam

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