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"

The Fourth Princess
Greedy
Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
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The Legend of the Nine-Tailed Fox
Super Nintendo: The Game-Changing Company That Unlocked the Power of Play
Everyday Movement
The Poet Empress
This Is Where the Serpent Lives
The Last of Earth
A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing
City of Others (The DEUS Files, #1)
Early Mornings at the Laksa Cafe
Strange Houses (Strange Houses, #1)
Strange Pictures
Strange Buildings (Strange Houses, #2)
Crying in H Mart
The Covenant of Water
A Guardian and a Thief
Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
The Poet Empress
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Mother Mary Comes to Me
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Flashlight
The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)
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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

Kang Chol-Hwan
It's clear: North Korea is a total sham. Officially, it outlaws private business, but in the shadows it lets it thrive. Since there are hardly any markets, merchants warehouse their Chinese products at home and sell them to their neighbors and acquaintances. This farce is the only thing preventing the bankruptcy of the North Korean state and the pauperization of its citizenry. ...more
Kang Chol-Hwan, The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag

. In 1289 Kublai Khan sent ambassadors to Java, demanding tribute and submission to the Yuan dynasty. Kertanegara arrested the envoys, branded their faces, cut off their ears and sent them back to China. As will be revealed later, what happened next had profound consequences for the Majapahit empire. ” “. In 1289 Kublai Khan sent ambassadors to Java, demanding tribute and submission to the Yuan dynasty. Kertanegara arrested the envoys, branded their faces, cut off their ears and sent them back t ...more
Herald van der Linde, Majapahit: Intrigue, Betrayal and War in Indonesia's Greatest Empire

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