10 must-read asian literature books like Radio Imagination by Gianluca Coci

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Radio Imagination

By: Gianluca Coci , None

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

C'e una radio che non ha bisogno di microfoni, frequenze e studi di registrazione perche va in onda…

If you liked the asian literature plot in Radio Imagination by Gianluca Coci, None , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of A Cabeça do Santo by Socorro Acioli

1. A Cabeça do Santo

By: Socorro Acioli

4.29

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Desenvolvido na oficina de Gabriel García Márquez, o romance de Socorro Acioli conta a história de … read more

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  • fiction
"A consciência da solidão doía mais que qualquer outra dor."

-Socorro Acioli, A Cabeça do Santo

"[...] porque às vezes nem Deus livra o homem de enlouquecer. O demônio é artista."

-Socorro Acioli, A Cabeça do Santo

"Era tudo tão lindo que nem coube nos seus pequenos sonhos. Ela precisou aprender a sonhar mais."

-Socorro Acioli, A Cabeça do Santo

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2. The Diving Pool: Three Novellas

By: Yōko Ogawa , Stephen Snyder , Stephen Snyder

3.69

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

From Akutagawa Award-winning author Yoko Ogawa comes a haunting trio of novellas about love, fertil… read more

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  • asian literature
  • fiction
  • japanese literature
  • japan
"I couldn't reach him from here even if I tried."

-Yōko Ogawa, The Diving Pool: Three Novellas

"When we grow up, we find ways to hide our anxieties, our loneliness, our fear and sorrow. But children hide nothing, putting everything into their tears, which they spread liberally about for the who…"

-Yōko Ogawa, The Diving Pool: Three Novellas

"Since that time, I've had many similar moments, and I can never hear the words "family" and "home" without feeling that they sound strange, never simply hear them and let them go. When I stop to exam…"

-Yōko Ogawa, The Diving Pool: Three Novellas

"I knew immediately that it was different from other photographs. The night sky in the background was pure and black, so dark it made you dizzy if you stared at it too long. The rain drifted through t…"

-Yōko Ogawa, The Diving Pool: Three Novellas

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3. Death with Interruptions

By: Margaret Jull Costa , José Saramago

4.00

Format: 238 pages, Hardcover

Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramago's brilliant new novel poses the question what happens when the gri… read more

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  • fiction
"Al día siguiente no murió nadie."

-Margaret Jull Costa, Death with Interruptions

"Eu sunt moartea,restul nu e nimic."

-Margaret Jull Costa, Death with Interruptions

"La muerte está enfadada. Es el momento de sacarle la lengua."

-Margaret Jull Costa, Death with Interruptions

"Sin muerte no hay resurrección, y sin resurrección no hay iglesia"

-Margaret Jull Costa, Death with Interruptions

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4. Capitães da Areia

By: Jorge Amado

4.36

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Capitães da Areia é o livro de Jorge Amado mais vendido no mundo inteiro. Publicado em 1937, teve … read more

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  • fiction
"Porque a revolução é uma pátria e uma família."

-Jorge Amado, Capitães da Areia

"Господь улыбается, как негритенок. («Генералы песчаных карьеров»)"

-Jorge Amado, Capitães da Areia

"Mas já tinham sido desiguais na terra, a balança pendia sempre para um lado."

-Jorge Amado, Capitães da Areia

"Que culpa eles têm? Roubam para comer porque todos estes ricos que têm para botar fora, para dar para as igrejas, não se lembram que existem crianças com fome."

-Jorge Amado, Capitães da Areia

Cover of Amore by Giorgio Amitrano, Yasushi Inoue

5. Amore

By: Giorgio Amitrano , Yasushi Inoue

2.64

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

Un piccolo hotel incastonato in una scogliera scoscesa, la spiaggia di ciottoli, il mare indaco: pe… read more

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  • fiction
  • japanese literature
  • japan
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6. Radio Imagination

By: Gianluca Coci , None

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

C'e una radio che non ha bisogno di microfoni, frequenze e studi di registrazione perche va in onda… read more

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  • asian literature
  • fiction
  • japanese literature
  • japan
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7. Penance

By: Philip Gabriel , Kanae Minato

3.71

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The tense, chilling story of four women haunted by a childhood trauma. When they were children, Sae… read more

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  • fiction
  • japanese literature
  • japan
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8. Journey Under the Midnight Sun

By: Keigo Higashino , Alexander O. Smith

4.51

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

When a man is found murdered in an abandoned building in Osaka in 1973, unflappable detective Sasag… read more

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  • fiction
  • japanese literature
  • japan
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9. Aliss at the Fire

By: Jon Fosse , Damion Searls

3.99

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more t… read more

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  • fiction
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10. Quarto de Despejo: Diário de Uma Favelada

By: Carolina Maria de Jesus , None

4.47

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

O diário da catadora de papel Carolina Maria de Jesus deu origem à este livro, que relata o cotidia… read more

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"Why is it that the saints of June are honored with fire?"

-Carolina Maria de Jesus, Quarto de Despejo: Diário de Uma Favelada

"A noite está tépida. O céu está salpicado de estrelas. Eu que sou exótica gostaria de recortar um pedaço do céu para fazer um vestido"

-Carolina Maria de Jesus, Quarto de Despejo: Diário de Uma Favelada

"Eskiden unlu maddeler pahalı idi. Şimdi de pirinç ve fasulye onları gölgede bıraktı.Yeni zenginler gibi asillerin tarafına geçtiler. Demek siz de, fasulye ve pirinç, bizi terkettiniz?"

-Carolina Maria de Jesus, Quarto de Despejo: Diário de Uma Favelada

"Skeçler yazıp sirk müdürüne götürdüm. Bana, "Ne yazık ki zencisiniz." diye cevap verdiler. Kıvırcık saçlarımla, esmer tenimi ne kadar sevdiğimi unutuyorlar halbuki. Hatta zencilerin saçlarını beyazla…"

-Carolina Maria de Jesus, Quarto de Despejo: Diário de Uma Favelada

11. La música de Marie

By: Usamaru Furuya

3.31

Format: 180 pages,

Este cuento de fantasia de escala epica nos introduce en un mundo fascinante donde los hombres ador… read more

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12. The Master Key

By: Masako Togawa , None

4.38

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

Fans of P.D. James, Robert Barnard and other literate writers in the genre will welcome US publicat… read more

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13. Vidas secas

By: Graciliano Ramos

4.22

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Vidas secas, lançado originalmente em 1938, é o romance em que mestre Graciliano — tão meticuloso q… read more

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  • fiction
"Se aprendesse qualquer coisa, necessitaria aprender mais, e nunca ficaria satisfeito."

-Graciliano Ramos, Vidas secas

"Hell, Hell—" He couldn't believe that a word with so musical a ring could be the name of something bad."

-Graciliano Ramos, Vidas secas

"Natural, xingar a mãe de uma pessoa não vale nada, porque todo mundo vê logo que a gente não tem intenção de maltratar ninguém. Um ditério sem importância."

-Graciliano Ramos, Vidas secas

"Os meninos eram uns brutos, como o pai. Quando crescessem, guardariam as reses de um patrão invisível, seriam pisados, maltratados, machucados por um soldado amarelo"

-Graciliano Ramos, Vidas secas

14. Le jardin arc-en-ciel

By: Ito Ogawa

3.97

Format: 12 pages, Paperback

Izumi, jeune mere celibataire, rencontre Chiyoko, lyceenne en classe de terminale, au moment ou cel… read more

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15. The Great Passage

By: Shion Miura , None , None

4.14

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A charmingly warm and hopeful story of love, friendship, and the power of human connection. Award-w… read more

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16. Ce n'est pas toi que j'attendais

By: Fabien Toulmé

4.34

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

Dans la vie d'un couple, la naissance d'un enfant handicape est un ouragan, une tempete. Quand sa p… read more

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17. O Alienista

By: Machado de Assis

4.10

Format: 56 pages, Paperback

Clássico da literatura brasileira, este texto de Machado de Assis continua sendo, cento e trinta an… read more

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  • fiction
"Portando que se devia admitir como normal e exemplar o desequilíbrio das faculdades."

-Machado de Assis, O Alienista

"Bacamarte evidenced neither vanity nor modesty; he listened in silence, as impassive as a stone god."

-Machado de Assis, O Alienista

"Los locos de amor eran tres o cuatro, pero sólo les resultaban asombrosos por la curiosa índole de su delirio."

-Machado de Assis, O Alienista

"Till now, madness has been thought a small island in an ocean of sanity. I am beginning to suspect that it is not an island at all but a continent."

-Machado de Assis, O Alienista

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18. Tokyo Express

By: Seichō Matsumoto

3.68

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

In una cala rocciosa della baia di Hakata, i corpi di un uomo e di una donna vengono rinvenuti all’… read more

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  • fiction
  • japanese literature
  • japan
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19. Boulder

By: Eva Baltasar

3.89

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

La protagonista d'aquesta novel·la és una dona atreta per la solitud com per un imant. Es guanya la… read more

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  • fiction
"Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adultos."

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

"Y sin embargo he descubierto que no se puede columpiar a un hijo sin sonreír. Lo he intentado y es imposible. Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adul…"

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

"I listen with all five senses, I listen to her with my entire body, with everything but my heart, which feels like it wants to thrash the hell out of me. This wasn't part of our plan. The truth is we…"

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

"But all this tunneling has opened rifts through which the captive parts of me have started to emerge. I realize that I am smoke, that the things that define me rise as they would up a chimney, probin…"

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

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20. The Last Children of Tokyo

By: Yōko Tawada

3.43

Format: 138 pages, Paperback

Yoshiro thinks he might never die. A hundred years old and counting, he is one of Japan's many 'old… read more

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  • asian literature
  • fiction
  • japanese literature
  • japan
"Unable to turn back the clock, they let themselves be turned."

-Yōko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo

"She's always hated good-byes and as she got older she hated them even more."

-Yōko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo

"With children like this having children of their own, it was no wonder the world was full of children."

-Yōko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo

"งานหลักของพวกสมาชิกสภาคือ การปรับเปลี่ยกฎหมาย กฎหมายนั้นเปลี่ยนตลอดเวลา จึงแน่นอนว่าถูกปรับเปลี่ยน . แต่ใครเปลี่ยนเพื่ออะไร เปลี่ยนอย่างไรนั้น ไม่มีการสื่อให้รู้เลย ประชาชนใช้ชีวิตจัดระเบียบตัวเองในสภาพมองไม่เห็นกฎหมาย …"

-Yōko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo

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21. The Ten Loves of Mr. Nishino

By: Hiromi Kawakami

3.45

Format: 170 pages, Kindle Edition

Who loves Mr Nishino?Minami is the daughter of Mr Nishino's true love.Bereaved Shiori is tempted by… read more

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  • asian literature
  • fiction
  • japanese literature
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"People have the right to fall in love, but not the right to be loved."

-Hiromi Kawakami, The Ten Loves of Mr. Nishino

"Of course, everyone has a touch of madness in them. In fact, there’s something frightening about a person who isn’t a little crazy."

-Hiromi Kawakami, The Ten Loves of Mr. Nishino

"He had underestimated me. All along. Even though I had not underestimated him. But, how do you love someone without blinding yourself? Don’t we all have to indulge each other, let our guard down, and…"

-Hiromi Kawakami, The Ten Loves of Mr. Nishino

"I really just couldn’t think of anything. Absolutely nothing that I wanted to do. There were plenty of things that I don’t want to do. Like torment animals. Or be jealous of other people’s happiness.…"

-Hiromi Kawakami, The Ten Loves of Mr. Nishino

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22. Il dolce domani

By: Banana Yoshimoto

3.65

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Sayoko e Yoichi hanno avuto un incidente, lei è rimasta gravemente ferita, lui invece non c'è più. … read more

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  • asian literature
  • fiction
  • japanese literature
  • japan
"L'esistenza non conosce colpi di scena né finali. Si limita a scorrere, a muoversi. Non c'è soluzione alla morte dei nostri cari. Piuttosto che stare male perché non possiamo più vederli, è meglio an…"

-Banana Yoshimoto, Il dolce domani

Cover of No es un río by Selva Almada

23. No es un río

By: Selva Almada

3.95

Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition

Enero y el Negro llevan de pesca a Tilo, hijo adolescente de Eusebio, el amigo muerto. Mientras beb… read more

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  • fiction
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24. The White Book

By: Han Kang

3.81

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize From Booker Prize-winner and literary p… read more

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  • asian literature
  • fiction
"Now and then, the passage of time seems acutely apparent. Physical pain always sharpens the awareness."

-Han Kang, The White Book

"This life needed only one of us to live it. If you had lived beyond those first few hours, I would not be living now. My life means yours is impossible."

-Han Kang, The White Book

"And she frequently forgot, That her body (all our bodies) is a house of sand. That it shattered and is shattering still. Slipping stubbornly through fingers."

-Han Kang, The White Book

"There is none of us whom life regards with any partiality. Sleet falls as she walks these streets, holding this knowledge inside her. Sleet that leaves cheeks and eyebrows heavy with moisture. Everyt…"

-Han Kang, The White Book

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25. Where the Wild Ladies Are

By: Aoko Matsuda

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In this witty and exuberant collection of feminist retellings of traditional Japanese folktales, hu… read more

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  • asian literature
  • fiction
  • japanese literature
  • japan
"He who speaks of love must do so with courage."

-Aoko Matsuda, Where the Wild Ladies Are

"When they are truly into something, they are absolutely single-minded in their fixation. They give it all they have. They throw heaps of money at it, research it endlessly, and do whatever seems nece…"

-Aoko Matsuda, Where the Wild Ladies Are

"How unfair society was! Male employees had to pretend to be capable of doing things they couldn't do, while female employees had to pretend to be incapable of doing things they actually could do. Ove…"

-Aoko Matsuda, Where the Wild Ladies Are

"Previously she'd lacked confidence and was forever putting out feelers to the people around her to gauge what they were thinking, but these days she gave out an almost authoritative aura, as if to si…"

-Aoko Matsuda, Where the Wild Ladies Are

Cover of The Lantern of Lost Memories by Sanaka Hiiragi

26. The Lantern of Lost Memories

By: Sanaka Hiiragi

4.05

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed Japanese author Sanaka Hiigari comes a heartwarming, life-affirming novel about a ma… read more

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  • asian literature
  • fiction
  • japanese literature
  • japan
Cover of Suíte Tóquio by Giovana Madalosso

27. Suíte Tóquio

By: Giovana Madalosso

3.91

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

É uma manhã qualquer quando Maju atravessa a praça ao lado de Cora. Puxando a garota pelo braço, el… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Concerning My Daughter by Hye-Jin Kim

28. 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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  • asian literature
  • fiction
"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

Cover of Dolores Dolly Poppedijn by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

29. Dolores Dolly Poppedijn

By: Thomas Olde Heuvelt

2.92

Format: 93 pages, Paperback

'Dolores Dolly Poppedijn' vertelt het hypnotiserende verhaal van Charlotte, een vrouw die na de doo… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Mariposa Vermelha by Fernanda Castro

30. Mariposa Vermelha

By: Fernanda Castro

4.36

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

Em seu novo romance, Fernanda Castro narra a história de Amarílis, uma jovem que, com a ajuda de um… read more

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31. The Forest of Wool and Steel

By: Natsu Miyashita

3.77

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

What he experienced that day wasn’t life-changing . . . It was life-making. Tomura is startled b… read more

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  • asian literature
  • fiction
  • japanese literature
  • japan
"The road of head was steep and long, and I had no firm idea as to how to achieve my goals. First came the will to do it, then persistence and effort. And then maybe something else entirely."

-Natsu Miyashita, The Forest of Wool and Steel

"When you heard Kazune play, it summoned up visible, tangible scenery. Light shining down among the trees, wet with morning dew. Drops of water sparkling on the tips of leaves, then dripping down. One…"

-Natsu Miyashita, The Forest of Wool and Steel

"With both hands, he played an octave. The piano, part of the scenery until now, began to breathe. As each note was struck, the piano raised its heavy body and stretched its folded arms and legs, prep…"

-Natsu Miyashita, The Forest of Wool and Steel

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