10 must-read nonfiction books like Under Red Skies: Three Generations of Life, Loss, and Hope in China by Karoline Kan

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Under Red Skies: Three Generations of Life, Loss, and Hope in China

By: Karoline Kan

4.06

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A deeply personal and shocking look at how China is coming to terms with its conflicted past as it …

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1. Wish Lanterns: Young Lives in New China

By: Alec Ash

3.68

Format: 265 pages, Hardcover

The youth are the generation that will change China. There are over 320 million in their teens and … read more

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  • history
  • asia
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • audiobook
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2. 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
  • china
  • chinese literature

3. The Wine of Solitude

By: Irène Némirovsky

3.49

Format: 465 pages, Hardcover

Introspective, intense and poignant, The Wine of Solitudeis the most autobiographical of all Irene … read more

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4. Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China

By: Leslie T. Chang

3.77

Format: None pages,

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5. Quando muori resta a me

By: Zerocalcare

4.57

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Un viaggio con suo padre verso il paesino tra le Dolomiti da cui proviene la famiglia paterna sareb… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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6. 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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  • asia
Cover of La Cina è già qui. Perché è urgente capire come pensa il Dragone by Giada Messetti

7. La Cina è già qui. Perché è urgente capire come pensa il Dragone

By: Giada Messetti

3.91

Format: 149 pages, Paperback

Non passa giorno senza che si parli di Cina, tuttavia l'argomento viene spesso affrontato, in pubbl… read more

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  • history
  • asia
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • audiobook
Cover of L'incendio: Reportage su una generazione tra Iran, Ucraina e Afghanistan by Cecilia Sala

8. L'incendio: Reportage su una generazione tra Iran, Ucraina e Afghanistan

By: Cecilia Sala

4.11

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

Kateryna ha 28 anni, ha fatto la modella, ha amici sparsi per l'Europa e all'inizio del 2022 spera … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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9. Nessuno torna indietro

By: Alba de Céspedes

3.86

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

224.copie, un film, innumerevoli critiche, trenta edizioni straniere, continuamente ristampate. "A … read more

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  • feminism
  • audiobook
"A casa, ormai, non si può più tornare. I genitori non dovrebbero mandarci in città. Dopo, anche se torniamo, siamo cattive figlie, cattive mogli. Chi può dimenticare di essere stata padrona di se ste…"

-Alba de Céspedes, Nessuno torna indietro

"Eppure era così; nulla può distruggere, annientare un passato: tu accuratamente lo nascondi, lo occulti, nessuno ha visto, nessuno ha saputo, fuorché te stessa, e tu non parlerai mai. E invece seguit…"

-Alba de Céspedes, Nessuno torna indietro

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10. Nella testa del Dragone

By: Giada Messetti

3.97

Format: 186 pages, Kindle Edition

La Cina è davvero «vicina» come recitava il titolo di un vecchio film d'autore? No, sostiene Giada … read more

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  • history
  • asia
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • audiobook
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11. Uova

By: Hitonari Tsuji

3.67

Format: 183 pages, ebook

Attorno al bancone di un izakaya le vite delle persone si sfiorano, si incrociano per il tempo di u… read more

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12. The Perfect Father

By: Charlotte Duckworth

4.02

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

From the author of Unfollow Me comes a dark, surprising suspense of toxic relationships and family … read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Tutta intera by Espérance Hakuzwimana Ripanti

13. Tutta intera

By: Espérance Hakuzwimana Ripanti

3.46

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Il fiume Sele taglia in due la città, e Sara ogni giorno lo attraversa per andare nella scuola di B… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Sechzehn Wörter by Nava Ebrahimi

14. Sechzehn Wörter

By: Nava Ebrahimi

3.79

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Es gibt Wörter, die wir nicht kennen. Deren Bedeutung wir aber erahnen. Als wären sie immer schon h… read more

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15. Coisas de Loucos: O Que Eles Deixaram no Manicómio

By: Catarina Gomes

4.54

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

Uma caixa de objectos abandonados no Hospital Psiquiátrico Miguel Bombarda contém as pistas para re… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Under Red Skies: Three Generations of Life, Loss, and Hope in China by Karoline Kan

16. Under Red Skies: Three Generations of Life, Loss, and Hope in China

By: Karoline Kan

4.06

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A deeply personal and shocking look at how China is coming to terms with its conflicted past as it … read more

Similar categories in Karoline Kan's Under Red Skies: Three Generations of Life, Loss, and Hope in China book and Karoline Kan's Under Red Skies: Three Generations of Life, Loss, and Hope in China

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • asia
  • chinese literature
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • china
  • audiobook
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17. In the Ditch

By: Buchi Emecheta

4.04

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

A social documentary set in London in the late 1960s that tells of a young, lone Nigerian mother's … read more

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18. Il paese che siamo: L'Italia dalla Prima Repubblica alla politica on demand (Italian Edition)

By: Lorenzo Pregliasco

3.88

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

La Prima Repubblica ci sembra un mondo lontano e irripetibile. In bianco e nero, senza social, un m… read more

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  • nonfiction
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19. Signorina (Italian Edition)

By: Chiara Sfregola

3.44

Format: 178 pages, Kindle Edition

Dall’11 maggio 2016 le unioni civili sono legge. E se sul matrimonio è stato scritto molto e sulle … read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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20. Other Rivers: A Chinese Education

By: Peter Hessler

4.56

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An intimate and revelatory eyewitness account of two generations of students in China’s heartland, … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • asia
  • nonfiction
  • china
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21. A Body in the Lakes (Detective Beth Young, #2)

By: Graham Smith

4.14

Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition

The woman’s limbs were so thin; the skin on her arms as translucent as tracing paper. Around her ne… read more

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