Oriental


Norwegian Wood
Memoirs of a Geisha
Tao Te Ching
The Art of War
Kafka on the Shore
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Across the Nightingale Floor (Tales of the Otori, #1)
The Vegetarian
A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
82년생 김지영
Convenience Store Woman
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Kitchen
Siddhartha
After Dark
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe Painted Veil by W. Somerset MaughamSnow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa SeeThe Color of Jadeite by Eric D. GoodmanGeisha, a Life by Mineko Iwasaki
Best Orientalist Literature
115 books — 83 voters

Ted Chiang
If our lives are tales that Allah tells, then we are the audience as well as players, and it is by living these tales that we receive their lessons.
Ted Chiang, The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate

Ted Chiang
for like infernal fire, grief burns but does not consume; instead, it makes the heart vulnerable to further suffering.
Ted Chiang, The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate

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