Midnight
By: Mao Dun
3.57
Format: 524 pages, Hardcover
《子夜》，原名《夕阳》，以1930年5至6月间半封建、半殖民地的旧上海为背景，刻画了包括商人、军人、知识青年、交际花、遗老、工人等各阶层人物，展示了20世纪30年代旧中国社会生活的广阔画卷。在军阀混…
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1. Identity
By: Milan Kundera , Linda Asher
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2. Oblomov
By: Ivan Goncharov , Stephen Pearl , Galya Diment
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Format: 586 pages, Paperback
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"Now or never. To be or not to be!"-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
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"The common herd of "burghers", those cattle, complete with horns, who turn millstones with their bare hands."-Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov
3. Purple Hibiscus
By: None
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Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life in Enugu, Nigeria. They … read more
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4. The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China: The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun
By: Yiyun Li , Julia Lovell , Lu Xun , 魯迅
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5. Fortress Besieged
By: Qian Zhongshu , Nathan K. Mao , Jeanne Kelly
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Set on the eve of the Sino-Japanese War, our hapless hero Fang Hung-chien (a la Emma Bovary), with … read more
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6. Brothers
By: Yu Hua , Carlos Rojas , None , Eileen Chow
4.01
Format: 175 pages, Hardcover
A bestseller in China, recently short-listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize, and a winner of Fran… read more
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7. Love in a Fallen City
By: Eileen Chang , Karen S. Kingsbury
4.20
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
Eileen Chang is one of the great writers of twentieth-century China, where she enjoys a passionate … read more
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8. Death of a Red Heroine (Inspector Chen Cao #1)
By: Qiu Xiaolong
3.77
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Qiu Xiaolong's Anthony Award-winning debut introduces Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police. A youn… read more
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9. To Live
By: Michael Berry , Yu Hua
4.34
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
From the author of Brothers and China in Ten Words this celebrated contemporary classic of Chinese … read more
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"It’s better to live an ordinary life. If you go on striving for this and that, you’ll end up paying with your life."-Michael Berry, To Live
10. Rickshaw Boy
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4.13
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
A beautiful new translation of beloved Chinese author Lao She's masterpiece of social realism, abou… read more
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11. Monsignor Quixote
By: Graham Greene
3.79
Format: 249 pages,
A morally complex and mature work from a modern master IN THIS later novel by Graham Greene-featuri… read more
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12. The Tartar Steppe
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3.80
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Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life… read more
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13. Crystal Boys
By: Howard Goldblatt , Pai Hsien-yung
4.06
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Crystal Boysis the first Chinese novel on gay themes. A-qing, the adolescent hero, comes from an im… read more
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14. Family
By: Ba Jin , Sidney Shapiro
4.11
Format: 288 pages,
An essential work for anyone interested in the society and history of modern China! The first half … read more
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15. For Whom the Bell Tolls
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3.76
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Sp… read more
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16. The Fifth Child
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Doris Lessing's contemporary gothic horror story--centered on the birth of a baby who seems less th… read more
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17. Down and Out in Paris and London
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4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
This unusual fictional account - in good part autobiographical - narrates without self-pity and oft… read more
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18. Silence
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3.84
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Beneath the light of the candle I am sitting with my hands on my knees, staring in front of me. And… read more
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19. Beijing Coma
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3.53
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20. Cyrano de Bergerac
By: Edmond Rostand , Lowell Bair , Eteel Lawson
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This is Edmond Rostand's immortal play in which chivalry and wit, bravery and love are forever capt… read more
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21. La prochaine fois que tu mordras la poussière
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4.02
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« Ce livre me fait peur. Le processus a été douloureux. Mon père nous a annoncé qu’il n’allait pas … read more
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"Je crois que j’ai une mémoire de la souffrance qui s’efface, par sympathie pour moi-même peut-être, pour avancer avec des valises plus légères"-Panayotis Pascot, La prochaine fois que tu mordras la poussière
"Daumesnil, quartier Ehpad, rempli de vieux de droite qui attendent que la mort (qui est clairement de gauche puisqu’elle attrape tout le monde sans distinction) vienne les choper dans leur sommeils"-Panayotis Pascot, La prochaine fois que tu mordras la poussière
"À quoi ça sert de faire mon lit, je vais le défaire ce soir ? Si on laisse cette pensée gagner on est foutu, c’est l’essence même de la vie de faire pour défaire. Après c’est pourquoi voir mes amis, …"-Panayotis Pascot, La prochaine fois que tu mordras la poussière
22. Tokyo Express
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23. Taipei People
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"The Brocade River carries springtide splendor to Heaven as to Earth; Above Jade Mountain the floating clouds transform the ancient to the present hour."-Pai Hsien-yung, Taipei People
"As the saying goes, 'People do not stay in favor a thousand days; flowers do not stay in bloom a hundred days.' Nobody can count on being happy and prosperous a whole lifetime."-Pai Hsien-yung, Taipei People
"The moon is sinking in the west, the moon is sinking. With all my heart of you I'm thinking - and you not knowing! A tender bush; who cares to tend it? From my fallen leaves the pains of love are gro…"-Pai Hsien-yung, Taipei People
"As they gazed at the moon and the bright stars in the sky, Wang Kuei-sheng said that if he could use his family's gold bars to build a ladder to the heavens he would climb up and pluck the crescent m…"-Pai Hsien-yung, Taipei People
24. Golden Age
By: Wang Xiaobo
4.02
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Like Gary Shteyngart or Michel Houellebecq, Wang Xiaobo is a Chinese literary icon whose satire for… read more
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"Death was always at your back, an infinite darkness coming to swallow you. I felt miniscule. No matter what I did, I would still be just as miniscule. But so long as I could walk, I could outrun deat…"-Wang Xiaobo, Golden Age
25. Midnight
By: Mao Dun
3.57
Format: 524 pages, Hardcover
《子夜》，原名《夕阳》，以1930年5至6月间半封建、半殖民地的旧上海为背景，刻画了包括商人、军人、知识青年、交际花、遗老、工人等各阶层人物，展示了20世纪30年代旧中国社会生活的广阔画卷。在军阀混… read more
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- classics
- historical
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- china
