Asian Literature

Asian literature is the literature produced by writers in Asia. Or by Asian American writers.

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The Book of Fallen Leaves (The Autumn Empire, #1)
The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts
The Dragon and the Sun Lotus (The Three Realms, #2)
The Plans I Have for You
The Fortune Flip
Prodigal Tiger
The Celestial Seas
Brighter Than Nine (Darker by Four, #2)
The Oks Are Not OK
The Fourth Princess
Greedy
The Midnight Taxi
Bad Asians
Love Me Tomorrow
Strange Houses (Strange Houses, #1)
Strange Pictures
Strange Buildings (Strange Houses, #2)
The Poet Empress
Julie Chan Is Dead
Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
Molka
I Hope This Doesn't Find You
The Emperor of Gladness
The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop
We'll Prescribe You a Cat (We'll Prescribe You a Cat, #1)
Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
Flashlight
Our Missing Hearts
The Lotus Shoes
Pachinko
Convenience Store Woman
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
Norwegian Wood
The Vegetarian
Memoirs of a Geisha
Crying in H Mart
82년생 김지영
The Joy Luck Club
Kafka on the Shore

Silence descended on the house. [....] Amma must have sensed that this was the sort of silence that, left unchallenged, could consume the family from within.
Vivek Shanbhag, Ghachar Ghochar

Baek Se-hee
It was also revealed that the reason I am cruel to others is because I have low-self-esteem. Because I don’t love myself, I am unable to understand those who do love me in spite of it all, and so I test them. “You love me even when I do this? Or this? Or this?” Even when the other person forgives me, I am unable to understand their forgiveness, and when they give up on me, I torture and console myself with the “fact” that no one could ever love me. That goddamn self-esteem. [...] Looking more cl ...more
Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

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