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
82년생 김지영
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Siddhartha
Kitchen
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1)
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenDIARY OF WW II by Gilman KirkThe Painted Veil by W. Somerset MaughamSnow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa SeeThe Color of Jadeite by Eric D. Goodman
Best Orientalist Literature
116 books — 102 voters

Ted Chiang
Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity,” and
Ted Chiang, The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate

Kim Ki-duk
I always ask myself one question: what is human? What does it mean to be human? Maybe people will consider my new films brutal again. But this violence is just a reflection of what they really are, of what is in each one of us to certain degree.
Kim Ki-duk

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