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Asia

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  • A Memoir of Misfortune, Xiaokang Su
  • A Tale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki
  • Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie
  • Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo
  • Child of Fortune, Yūko Tshushima
  • Clear Light of Day, Anita Desai
  • Cold Enough for Snow, Jessica Au
  • Concerning My Daughter, Kim Hye-jin
  • Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life, Yiyun Li
  • Dreams of Joy, Lisa See
  • First They Killed My Father, Loung Ung
  • Geisha, a Life, Mineko Iwasaki
  • Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Joseph Anton, Salman Rushdie
  • Kinder Than Solitude, Yiyun Li
  • Lady Tan’s Circle of Women, Lisa See
  • Love in a Fallen City, Eileen Chang
  • Masks, Fumiko Enchi
  • Matterhorn, Karl Marlantes
  • Memed, My Hawk, Yaşar Kemal
  • Men Without Women, Haruki Murakami
  • My Name is Red, Orhan Pamuk
  • Noli Me Tángere, José Rizal
  • No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai
  • Nothing to Envy, Barbara Demick
  • Olive Witch, Abeer Y. Hoque
  • Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi
  • Rosarita, Anita Desai
  • Ru, Kim Thúy
  • Shanghai Girls, Lisa See
  • Shreela Ray: On the Life and Work of an American Master, Shreela Ray
  • Snow, Orhan Pamuk
  • Snow Country, Yasunari Kawabata
  • The Art of Stillness, Pico Iyer
  • The Bastard of Istanbul, Elif Shafak
  • The Half Known Life, Pico Iyer
  • The Elephant Vanishes, Haruki Murakami
  • The Garden of Evening Mists, Tan Twan Eng
  • The Lovers and the Leavers, Abeer Y. Hoque
  • The Lowland, Jhumpa Lahiri
  • The Makioka Sisters, Jun’ichirō Tanizaki
  • The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
  • The Orphan Master’s Son, Adam Johnson
  • The Sound of Waves, Yukio Mishima
  • The Tale of Genji, Murasaki Shikibu
  • The Waiting Years, Fumiko Enchi
  • Thousand Cranes, Yasunari Kawabata
  • When the Elephants Dance, Tess Uriza Holthe
  • Woman Running in the Mountains, Yūko Tshushima
  • Zen Under Fire, Marianne Elliott
  • 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World, Elif Shafak