Around the World in 80 Books discussion

Post any authors from Asia here.

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Haruki Murakami (Japan)
Kazuo Ishiguro (Japan)
Kōbō Abe (Japan)

If you accept Asian-American authors:
Gail Tsukiyama (Japanese father and a Chinese mother)
Amy Tan

Books set in Asia:
All Woman And Springtime (Taiwan)

Books set in multiple countries, including Asia
The Hare with Amber Eyes

Correction - All Woman and Springtime by Brandon Jones is set in Korea (North and South).

China: Anchee Min, Ha Jin, and about 3,000 more available in English
Vietnam: Kien Nguyen and many others

Sun-mi Hwang (Korea) The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly. best seller in South Korea, more than 2 million copies sold. Translated into English by Chi-Youn Kim.

Thank you, Janice, for remembering names when I couldn't get to them! Melissa

China : Mo Yan, Nobel Prize for lit winner, author of the Garlic Ballads (my current read )

rabindranath tagore: nobel prize 4 lit.

Higashino Keigo (Japan) - One of the most popular novelists in Japan; most of his novels have been televised or taken to the big screen.

Soseki Natsume (Japan) - Legendary writer, author of 'I Am A Cat' and 'Kokoro'

Miyabe Miyuki (Japan) - Respected Japanese female author who writes across genres (fantasy/children, society, mystery, thrillers)

Yoshimoto Banana (Japan) - Writes quirky stories, author of 'Kitchen'

Writes in English
Catherine Lim (Singapore) - Respected literary figure in Singapore, writes slice-of-life short stories, etc.

Loung Ung (Cambodia) - Her memoirs of her experience during the Khmer Rouge regime became international best-sellers.

Kahlil Gibran (Lebanon) - Author of The Prophet, which I'm trying to read one of these days

Lisa See, Chinese-American historian and novelist known for Snow Flower and the Secret Fan and Shanghai Girls, among others. Wonderfully well-researched historical fiction!

I'm going to plug my own book here as an Asian-American author.
Trixi Pudong and the Greater World, a family saga about 20th-century China.


I'm giving away advance ebooks until the end of August 2016. Email me at audreymei (at) gmail.com if you're interested.

While researching the bejeezus out of that book, I created this list of representative CHINESE AUTHORS:

Yu Hua - "To Live" and "Chronicle of a Blood Merchant"
Nien Cheng - "Life and Death in Shanghai" (omg what a strong woman.)
Wang Anyi - "The Song of Everlasting Sorrow"
Eileen Chang - "Lust, Caution" and "Love in a Fallen City" (short stories)
Su Tong - "Raise the Red Lantern", "The Opium Family" and other novellas

Azerbaijan: The Orphan Sky by Ella Leya

The Year I Became a Nomad

Hi, I'm just posting here my recently published travel memoir The Year I Became a Nomad, about my 18-month adventure when I explored big parts of Asia, from Nepal to Japan.

Thanks.

Hi! May I introduce myself. I'm a Hong Kong-born Asian/Canadian author who writes in English. I have two published books:


Land And The Ruling Class In Hong Kong


Fated and Fateless

I've also written a historical epic set in 17th century China, which is expected to be published in 2017. This novel is about the legendary life of Kangxi Emperor's grandmother, the Mongolian-born matriarch descended from Genghis Khan's Borjigit clan.

Shawna Yang Ryan (Taiwanese/American).
Wrote Green Island, a Historical Fiction novel about Taiwan.



It's is up for the 2016 Goodreads choice award in Historical Fiction

Hello, I'm Emma from the Philippines.

I know it's kind of late for posting in this thread but I like to introduce 2 books from my country:

One of my all time favorites: Noli Me Tangere (latin: Touch Me Not) and its sequel, El Filibusterismo by Jose Protacio Rizal. It is set in the Philippines during the Spanish regime. It is also quite controversial as it exposes the dark side of the government and the Spanish Priests during the colonization.

Both books are for required reading here in the Philippines. It is actually bound by the law :)

My name is Terrence Perera from Sri Lanka and I have written four books, all with Sri Lankan backgrounds
https://www.amazon.com/author/terrenc...

Young-Im Lee "Forgotten Reflections" South KoreaForgotten Reflections

Emma wrote: "Hello, I'm Emma from the Philippines.

I know it's kind of late for posting in this thread but I like to introduce 2 books from my country:

One of my all time favorites: Noli Me Tangere (latin: T..."

@Francesco, I've been looking for exactly this tip for a couple of years. Adding to my TBR now.

Two of my recent favourites set in Asia are Pachinko by Korean born, American resident Min Jin Lee, and Singapore born, American resident Kevin Kwan's Crazy Rich Asians and its sequels. Moving and beautifully written, Lee's novel follows several generations of a Korean family from their home in Korea to their decades-long, stateless sojourn in Japan. While Kwan's book is a hilarious satire on the lives of the uber-wealthy, old-money Chinese of Singapore and Hong Kong and the nouveau riche from mainland China. Very different books that take the reader to fascinating worlds.

I hope this is the relevant space to post as an author. If, not could someone please let me know - Thank you.

Part armchair travel, part cultural immersion and a whole lot of food. Sweet Neem is about three generations trying to revive their family restaurant in the South Indian city of Hyderabad. As the younger generation, transplants from the West, explore the culture and history of the city, they sample their way across the unique cuisine of Hyderabad - an intoxication mix of Mughalai, Turkish, Arabic, Andhra, Telangana and Marathwada ingredients and techniques.

Thank you for reading the post! Sweet Neem

Tied to Deceit by Neena H. Brar
A murder mystery set in India

Rubaije byOmar Khayyám. Very interesting poems of medieval Persian poet i time when his country was under Turks from Khorasan. Some of this short versus hide wisdom of the world with many topics could relate to these days. Not to mention issuses with church authorities any author from that period had anywhere in the world .

Ovidia Yu Singapore

Ma Thanegi Myanmar (Burma)