How We Disappeared
By: Jing-Jing Lee
4.20
Format: 350 pages, Hardcover
Singapore, 1942. As Japanese troops sweep down Malaysia and into Singapore, a village is ransacked,…
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1. Il peso dei segreti
By: Cinzia Poli , Aki Shimazaki
3.97
Format: 339 pages, Kindle Edition
Per tutta la vita Yukiko ha convissuto con un terribile segreto: la mattina del 9 agosto del 1945, … read more
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- historical
- asia
- fiction
- historical fiction
- asian literature
2. Pachinko
By: Min Jin Lee
4.33
Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition
In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealth… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- asia
- fiction
- historical fiction
- asian literature
- adult
- audiobook
"A woman’s lot is to suffer."-Min Jin Lee, Pachinko
"No one is clean. Living makes you dirty."-Min Jin Lee, Pachinko
"Life makes you pay...everybody pays something"-Min Jin Lee, Pachinko
"Learn everything. Fill your mind with knowledge—it’s the only kind of power no one can take away from you."-Min Jin Lee, Pachinko
3. White Chrysanthemum
By: Mary Lynn Bracht
4.41
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In the spirit of Lilac Girls, the heartbreaking history of Korea is brought to life in this deeply … read more
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- historical
- asia
- war
- world war ii
- fiction
- historical fiction
- asian literature
- adult
- audiobook
"... she knows all too well anything can happen in the blink of an eye."-Mary Lynn Bracht, White Chrysanthemum
4. Towelhead
By: Alicia Erian
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Thirteen-year-old Jasira wants what every girl wants: love and acceptance and the undivided attenti… read more
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- fiction
5. Pioggia sul viso
By: Natsuo Kirino , Gianluca Coci
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
Dalle finestre del suo appartamento all'undicesimo piano, Murano Miro osserva la foschia che avvolg… read more
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- fiction
6. Do Not Say We Have Nothing
By: Madeleine Thien
3.52
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
"In a single year, my father left us twice. The first time, to end his marriage, and the second, wh… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- asia
- fiction
- historical fiction
7. Human Acts
By: Han Kang , Deborah Smith
4.37
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally bestselling author of The Vegetarian, a rare and astonishing (The Observer… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- asia
- fiction
- historical fiction
- asian literature
8. Red Sorghum
By: Mo Yan , Howard Goldblatt
3.63
Format: None pages,
Spanning three generations, this novel of family and myth is told through a series of flashbacks th… read more
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- asia
- fiction
- historical fiction
9. State of Emergency
By: Jeremy Tiang
3.91
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Finalist for the 2016 Epigram Books Fiction Prize Siew Li leaves her husband and children in Tiong … read more
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- historical
- asia
- fiction
- historical fiction
- asian literature
10. Cat Country : A Satirical Novel of China in the 1930s
By: Lao She
4.22
Format: None pages,
When a traveller from China crash-lands on Mars, he finds himself in a country inhabited entirely b… read more
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11. Sugarbread
By: Balli Kaur Jaswal
3.71
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
Finalist for the 2015 Epigram Books Fiction Prize Shortlisted for the 2017 Singapore Book Award for… read more
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12. Prophet Song
By: Paul Lynch
4.10
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more
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- literary fiction
- war
- fiction
- audiobook
"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
13. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
By: Shehan Karunatilaka
3.92
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what … read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"Even suicide requires perseverance."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Why should a Creator watch over you? Wasn't creating you enough?"-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"You were simply a handsome man who enjoyed beautiful boys. Nothing more, nothing less and no one's business."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Despair always begins as a snack that you nibble on when bored and then becomes a meal that you have thrice a day."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
14. The House of Doors
By: Tan Twan Eng
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redempti… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- asia
- fiction
- historical fiction
- asian literature
- audiobook
"Money's the sixth sense. If you don't have it, you can't make … the most of the other five."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"I feel that when I travel I can change myself a little, and I return from a journey not quite the same self I was."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"That night, side by side, we drifted among the galaxies of sea-stars, while far, far above us the asterisks of light marked out the footnotes on the page of eternity."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"All of us will be forgotten eventually. Like a wave on the ocean, leaving no trace that it had once existed.' He shook his head. 'We will be remembered through our stories."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
15. In Memoriam
By: Alice Winn
4.53
Format: 382 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during a time of war. It'… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"It’s intimate."-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
"Call me Sidney,"-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
"Where’s the rest of it?"-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
"Do you believe in magic?"-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
16. Parti e omicidi
By: Sayaka Murata
3.76
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Parti e omicidi è una raccolta di racconti ambientati in una Tokyo di un futuro non ben precisato, … read more
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- asian literature
- asia
- fiction
17. The Mountains Sing
By: Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
4.32
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
With the epic sweep of Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko or Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing and the lyrical beauty of Va… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
- asian literature
- adult
- audiobook
"As long as I have my voice, I am still alive."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing
"Whenever humans failed us, it was nature who could help save us."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing
"Being a mother is never easy... It’s about failing, learning, and then failing again."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing
"History will write itself in people's memories, and as long as those memories live on, we can have faith that we can do better."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing
18. Black Butterflies
By: Priscilla Morris
4.25
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect barricades, splitting the diverse city i… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
19. Brotherless Night
By: V.V. Ganeshananthan
4.46
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as … read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- asia
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
20. I Will Greet the Sun Again
By: Khashayar J. Khabushani
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A searing, heartbreaking debut about the powerful bonds that make and break an Iranian-American fam… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
21. Butter
By: Asako Yuzuki
3.60
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist inten… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
22. Dust Child
By: Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally bestselling author of The Mountains Sing, a suspenseful and moving saga ab… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- asia
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
- asian literature
- adult
- audiobook
"Persistence turns a bar of iron into a needle."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child
"With the fire of war burning, it needed more men as firewood."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child
"Everyone came from dust and would one day return to dust. Life is transitory, after all."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child
"For him, poetry was the language of the soul. Writers could hide their feelings behind fiction, but had to bare their soul to poetry."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child
23. How We Disappeared
By: Jing-Jing Lee
4.20
Format: 350 pages, Hardcover
Singapore, 1942. As Japanese troops sweep down Malaysia and into Singapore, a village is ransacked,… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- asia
- war
- world war ii
- fiction
- historical fiction
- asian literature
- adult
- audiobook
24. 8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster
By: Mirinae Lee
3.91
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Joining the acclaimed ranks of Pachinko and A Woman is No Man, a riveting and genre-bending debut o… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- asia
- fiction
- historical fiction
- asian literature
- audiobook
25. Wandering Souls
By: Cecile Pin
4.15
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A luminous, boldly imagined debut novel about three Vietnamese siblings who seek refuge in the UK, … read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- asia
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
- asian literature
- adult
- audiobook
"We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We tell ourselves stories in order to heal."-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls
"I didn't know that my culture had fashioned the shape of my mourning; I didn't know that my grief could be improper."-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls
26. Concerning My Daughter
By: Hye-Jin Kim
3.71
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
When an ageing mother allows her thirty-something daughter to move into her apartment, she wants fo… read more
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- literary fiction
- asia
- fiction
- asian literature
- adult
- audiobook
"Ir abrindo mão das coisas de que gostamos. Essa é a definição do verbo envelhecer."-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter
"That child who sprang from my own flesh and blood is perhaps the creature I'm most distant from."-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter
"Ela estudou tanto que, não tendo mais o que estudar, foi aprender o que não devia. Por exemplo: como negar o mundo, como ir contra o mundo."-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter
"It's not my fault. It's not your fault. It's no one's fault. If we keep telling ourselves that, then who should all the victims of the world go to for their apology?"-Hye-Jin Kim, Concerning My Daughter
27. Beasts of a Little Land
By: Juhea Kim
4.01
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
In 1917, deep in the snowy mountains of occupied Korea, an impoverished local hunter on the brink o… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
- asian literature
- adult
- audiobook
"If you really love someone you say goodbye without ever leaving."-Juhea Kim, Beasts of a Little Land
"The sky was white and the earth was black, like at the beginning of time before the first sunrise."-Juhea Kim, Beasts of a Little Land
"Jade felt that they each would have only half a life, a single wing, which would not be truly complete unless they stood together side by side."-Juhea Kim, Beasts of a Little Land
"But he thought that his father and mother were up there somewhere, that he didn't come into this world alone, and so was reminded why he must keep surviving as best he can..."-Juhea Kim, Beasts of a Little Land
28. A History of Burning
By: Janika Oza
4.14
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An epic, sweeping historical debut novel spanning continents and a century, and how one act of surv… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"What was love but one long act of forgiveness, of choosing to return, over and over again."-Janika Oza, A History of Burning
29. Revolutionary Acts: Love and Brotherhood in Black Gay Britain
By: Jason Okundaye
4.45
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Announcing the arrival of a major new talent, an astonishing work of social history which captures … read more
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- audiobook
30. Kololo Hill
By: Neema Shah
3.91
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Uganda 1972 A devastating decree is issued: all Ugandan Asians must leave the country in ninety … read more
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- historical
- asia
- fiction
- historical fiction
- asian literature
- audiobook
31. Impractical Uses of Cake
By: Yeoh Jo-Ann
3.67
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2018 Epigram Books Fiction Prize Sukhin is a thirty-five-year-old teacher who live… read more
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- asia
- fiction
