Popular Asian Adult Books
Find adult books written by authors from Asia for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (84)
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Touch by Adania Shibli EN
PalestineDescription:
A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.
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White on White : A Novel by Aysegül Savas EN
TurkeyDescription:
A "marvelous" (Lauren Groff) and "gentle, mysterious and profound” (Marina Abramović) novel about a woman who has come undone. A student moves to the city to research Gothic nudes, renting an apartment from a painter, Agnes, who lives in another town with her husband. One day, Agnes arrives in the city and settles into the upstairs studio. In their meetings on the stairs, in the studio, at the corner café, the kitchen at dawn, Agnes tells stories of her youth, her family, her marriage, and ideas for her art - which is always just about to be created. As the months pass, it becomes clear that A... continue
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Your Republic Is Calling You by Kim Young-ha EN
Country: Asia / 
South Korea
South Korea
Description:
This psychological thriller of a North Korean spy living in Seoul is “perhaps the most intriguing and accomplished Korean fiction yet to appear in English” (Kirkus). Foreign film importer Kim Ki-Yong is a family man with a wife and daughter. Living a prosperous life in Seoul, South Korea, he’s an aficionado of Heineken, soccer, and sushi. But he is also a North Korean spy who has been living among his enemies for twenty-one years. Then, after more than a decade of silence from the home office, he receives a mysterious email stating that he has one day to return to headquarters. But is the mess... continue