Foreign Lands


A Thousand Splendid Suns
The Kite Runner
Memoirs of a Geisha
Life of Pi
The Book Thief
And the Mountains Echoed
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
Pachinko
The Map of Salt and Stars
A Fine Balance
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
The Poisonwood Bible
In a Sunburned Country
A Gentleman in Moscow
River Town by Peter HesslerCountry Driving by Peter HesslerUp to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside by Quincy  CarrollOracle Bones by Peter HesslerCHINA by Tom  Carter
China Expat Books
100 books — 110 voters

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
To the others, these accounts are about (one more) distant land, like (any other) distant land, without any discernable features in the narrative, (all the same) distant like any other.
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Dictee

Virginia Alison
When you travel, the battered old suitcase only tells half the story...
Virginia Alison

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