Popular Asian Feminism Books
Find feminism books written by authors from Asia for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (42)
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The Right to Sex : The Sunday Times Bestseller by Amia Srinivasan EN
BahrainDescription:
An examination of the politics and ethics of sex in this world, animated by the hope of a different one
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The Road of Lost Innocence by Somaly Mam EN
CambodiaDescription:
A Cambodian woman sold into sexual slavery at the age of twelve describes the horrors she experienced until she managed to escape and discusses her role as an activist for the young women whom she has rescued from the region's brothels.
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The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali EN
TurkeyDescription:
A poignant, heartfelt new novel by the award-nominated author of Together Tea—extolled by the Wall Street Journal as a “moving tale of lost love” and by Shelf Awareness as “a powerful, heartbreaking story”—explores loss, reconciliation, and the quirks of fate. Roya, a dreamy, idealistic teenager living amid the political upheaval of 1953 Tehran, finds a literary oasis in kindly Mr. Fakhri’s neighborhood stationery shop, stocked with books and pens and bottles of jewel-colored ink. Then Mr. Fakhri, with a keen instinct for a budding romance, introduces Roya to his other favorite customer—handso... continue
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The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters : A Novel by Balli Kaur Jaswal EN
SingaporeDescription:
The author of the Reese Witherspoon Book Club selection Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows follows her acclaimed America debut with this life-affirming, witty family drama—an Indian This Is Where I Leave You—about three Punjabi sisters embarking on a pilgrimage to their homeland to lay their mother to rest. The British-born Punjabi Shergill sisters—Rajni, Jezmeen, and Shirnia—were never close and barely got along growing up, and now as adults, have grown even further apart. Rajni, a school principal is a stickler for order. Jezmeen, a thirty-year-old struggling actress, fears her big break may ... continue
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The Waiting Years by Fumiko Enchi EN
JapanDescription:
Published for the first time in the UK, one of Japan's greatest modern female writers In the late nineteenth century, Tomo, the faithful wife of a government official, is sent to Tokyo, where a heartbreaking task is awaiting her. From among hundreds of geishas and daughters offered up for sale by their families she must select a respectable young girl to become her husband's new lover. Externally calm, but torn apart inside, Tomo dutifully begins the search for an official mistress. The Waiting Years was awarded Japan's most prestigious literary award, the Noma Prize.
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Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser EN
Sri LankaDescription:
One of the most anticipated literary releases of the year, this gripping novel changes the game on what fiction can be and do
India
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South Korea
South Korea
Description:
Terlahir sebagai anak yang tak diinginkan, Oh San-yi sudah merasakan penolakan dan kehilangan sejak kecil, yang—walaupun tak kasatmata—tetap meninggalkan jejak yang mengikutinya sampai ia tumbuh dewasa. Kini Oh San-yi yang berusia 23 tahun bekerja di toko bunga dan menjalani kehidupan sepi di tengah hiruk-pikuk pusat kota Seoul. Pada suatu hari di musim panas, ia bertemu dengan seorang fotografer yang datang ke toko bunga untuk memotret bunga violet. Pertemuan itu menjungkirbalikkan hidupnya yang monoton dan abu-abu, menariknya ke dalam pusaran gairah, dan memerangkapnya dalam obsesi yang meng... continue
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We are displaced by Malala Yousafzai EN
PakistanDescription:
Nobel Peace Prize winner and bestselling author Malala Yousafzai introduces some of the faces behind the statistics and news stories we read or hear every day about the millions of people displaced worldwide.Malala's experiences visiting refugee camps caused her to reconsider her own displacement - first as an Internally Displaced Person when she was a young child in Pakistan, and then as an international activist who could travel anywhere in the world, except to the home she loved. In WE ARE DISPLACED, which is part memoir, part communal storytelling, Malala not only explores her own story of... continue