Popular Asian Historical Fiction Books
Find historical fiction books written by authors from Asia for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (335)
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JapanDescription:
"Originally published in Japanese under the title Chinmoku by Monumenta Nipponica"--Title page verso.
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Silence Is a Sense by Layla AlAmmar EN
KuwaitDescription:
"A woman sits in her apartment in an unnamed English city, absorbed in watching the dramas of her neighbors through their windows. Traumatized into muteness after a long, devastating trip from war-torn Syria to the UK, she believes that she wants to sink deeper into isolation, moving between memories of her absent boyfriend and family and her homeland, dreams, and reality. At the same time, she begins writing for a magazine under the pseudonym "the Voiceless," trying to explain the refugee experience without sensationalizing it-or revealing anything about herself. Gradually, as the boundaries ... continue
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Snow by Orhan Pamuk EN
TurkeyDescription:
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Touching, slyly comic, and humming with cerebral suspense—a masterful novel of "political intrigue and philosophy, romance and noir" (Vogue) and the lethal chemistry between secular doubt and Islamic fanaticism from the Nobel Prize winner. An exiled poet named Ka returns to Turkey and travels to the forlorn city of Kars. His ostensible purpose is to report on a wave of suicides among religious girls forbidden to wear their head-scarves. But Ka is also drawn by his memories of the radiant Ipek, now recently divorced. Amid blanketing snowfall and universal suspicion, Ka fin... continue
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Solar Plexus: A Baku Saga in Four Parts by Rustam Ibragimbekov EN
Country: Asia / 
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan
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Set against the backdrop of Azerbaijan's rapidly-changing capital, Baku, spanning three generations and told from different perspectives, Solar Plexus tells the tale of a group of friends who grew up around the same courtyard in the city.
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Some Prefer Nettles by Junichiro Tanizaki EN
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Junichiro Tanizaki’s Some Prefer Nettles is an exquisitely nuanced exploration of the allure of ancient Japanese tradition—and the profound disquiet that accompanied its passing. It is the 1920s in Tokyo, and Kaname and his wife Misako are trapped in a parody of a progressive Western marriage. No longer attracted to one another, they have long since stopped sleeping together and Kaname has sanctioned his wife’s liaisons with another man. But at the heart of their arrangement lies a sadness that impels Kaname to take refuge in the past, in the serene rituals of the classical puppet theater—and ... continue
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Soţul meu, Michael by Amos Oz RO
IsraelDescription:
Sotul meu, Michael s-a bucurat de un succes enorm imediat dupa aparitie, aducandu-i scriitorului israelian consacrarea internationala. Romanul a fost ecranizat in 1976 de regizorul Dan Wolman, cu actorii Oded Kotler si Efrat Lavie in rolurile principale.
„Cand am terminat Sotul meu, Michael, in aprilie 1967, cu o luna inainte de izbucnirea Razboiului de Sase Zile, cand m-am eliberat, in sfarsit, din sclavia in care ma tinuse Hanna, m-am asezat linistit si am citit ce scrisesem, dupa care am fost napadit de indoieli: aveam in fata un roman fara crime si fara tradari, cronica anuntata a... continue
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Star by Yukio Mishima EN
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A haunting novella of fame and disillusionment by a Japanese literary icon All eyes are upon Rikio. And he likes it, mostly. His fans cheer from a roped-off section, screaming and yelling to attract his attention. They would kill for a moment alone with him. Finally the director sets up the shot, the camera begins to roll, someone yells "action"; Rikio, for a moment, transforms into another being, a hardened young yakuza, but as soon as the shot is finished, he slumps back into his own anxieties and obsessions. Written shortly after Yukio Mishima himself had acted in the film Afraid to Die, th... continue
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Swimming Back to Trout River : A Novel by Linda Rui Feng EN
ChinaDescription:
"A lyrical novel set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution that follows a father's quest to reunite his family before his precocious daughter's momentous birthday ... In the summer of 1986 in a small Chinese village, ten-year-old Junie receives a momentous letter from her parents, who had left for America years ago: her father promises to return home and collect her by her twelfth birthday. But Junie's growing determination to stay put in the idyllic countryside with her beloved grandparents threatens to derail her family's shared future"--
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Swimming in the Monsoon Sea by Shyam Selvadurai EN
Sri LankaDescription:
Although life for Amrith in 1980 Sri Lanka seems rather uneventful and orderly, things change in a hurry when his male cousin arrives from Canada and Amrith finds himself completely enamored with his new visitor. The setting is Sri Lanka, 1980, and it isthe season of monsoons. Fourteen-year-old Amrith is caught up in the life of the cheerful, well-to-do household in which he is being raised by his vibrant Auntie Bundle and kindly Uncle Lucky. He tries not to think of his life before, when his doting mother was still alive. Amrith's holiday plans seem unpromising: he wants to appear in his scho... continue
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Taipei People by Pai Hsien-yung EN
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Pai Hsien-yung is among the most important writers in contemporary Chinese and world literature. His masterpiece Taipei People is a classic of Taiwanese modernism; with an intensity of vision comparable to James Joyce's Dubliners, it follows the individual struggles of the people of Taipei, with a mix of compassion, nostalgia, mourning, and tenacious clarity. Fifty years after its publication, the collection continues to move readers around the world. Stories from this collection have been translated into French, German, Italian, Dutch, Hebrew, Japanese, and Korean.