Read Around Asia Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Asia.
Best books from Asia (889)
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From "China's foremost literary satirist" (Financial Times) comes a captivating new novel set at a religious training center in Beijing, focusing on the unlikely love story of a Buddhist nun and a Daoist priest At the Religious Training Center on the campus of Beijing's National Politics University, disciples of China's five main religions--Buddhism, Daoism, Protestantism, Catholicism, and Islam--gather for a year of intensive study and training. They live in dormitories, eat at shared tables in the cafeteria, and attend lectures to learn about their own religion while also sharing in the less... continue
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Ash by Malinda Lo EN
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Forced into becoming an indentured servant when her family dies, Ash lives a lonely and desperate life with no hopes for the future, until she meets Kaisa, the King's royal Huntress, who teaches her to love, live, and dream once again.
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Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin EN
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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The extraordinary memoir of a peasant boy raised in rural Maoist China who was plucked from his village to study ballet and went on to become one of the greatest dancers of his generation. From a desperately poor village in northeast China, at age eleven, Li Cunxin was chosen by Madame Mao's cultural delegates to be taken from his rural home and brought to Beijing, where he would study ballet. In 1979, the young dancer arrived in Texas as part of a cultural exchange, only to fall in love with America-and with an American woman. Two years later, through a series of ... continue
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Golden Age : A Novel by Wang Xiaobo EN
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"At the time Wang was writing, novels about the Cultural Revolution tended to be fairly conventional tales of how good people suffered nobly during this decade of madness. The system itself was rarely called into question. Wang’s book was radically different . . . The idea of how to stand up to power underlies Golden Age." —Ian Johnson, The New York Times Book Review Like Gary Shteyngart or Michel Houellebecq, Wang Xiaobo is a Chinese literary icon whose satire forces us to reconsider the ironies of history. “Apparently, there was a rumour that Chen Qingyang and I were having an affair. She wa... continue
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Throwaway Daughter by Ting-Xing Ye EN
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A dramatic and moving YA novel by Ting-xing Ye, the internationally acclaimed author of A Leaf in the Bitter Wind, working with her husband, William Bell, author of the award-winning novels for young adults Forbidden City, Zack, and Stones. . Throwaway Daughter tells the dramatic and moving story of Grace Dong-mei Parker, a typical Canadian teenager until the day she witnesses the Tiananmen massacre on television. Horrified, she sets out to explore her Chinese ancestry, only to discover that she was one of the thousands of infant girls abandoned in China since the introduction of the one-child... continue
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The Book of Goose : A Novel by Yiyun Li EN
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A propulsive, gripping new novel about fate, art, exploitation, and intimacy by the award-winning author of Where Reasons End.
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El invisible by Fei Ge ES
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Esta novela breve y contundente, es la primera del aclamado autor chino Ge Fei que se traduce al castellano. El protagonista de El invisible vive en la Beijing contemporánea, donde todo el mundo está ocupado en ascender por la escalera del éxito soportando una carga cada vez mayor de bienes de consumo. Entrado en los cuarenta años, divorciado y sin hijos, vive con su hermana en un departamento en el borde de la ciudad, tratando de mantenerse a flote financiera y emocionalmente en una sociedad fuera de cualquier escala humana. En la segunda mitad de la década ... continue
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La Montaña del alma by Xingjian Gao, Gao Xingjian ES
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Una obra onírica llena de simbolismos. En los capítulos impares hay un relato en primera persona, de un escritor que ha entrado en crisis, luego de escapar de las garras de un cáncer de pulmón, y viaja por territorios rurales de China, sin saber bien que está buscando; hombre moderno, intelectual y escéptico, a quien el temor de la muerte lo acercó (para su asombro) a la religión. Algunos de los capítulos terminan en situación desesperada para el relator, sin que luego se sepa que ocurrió. Los capítulos no resp... continue
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Sorgo rojo by Mo Yan ES
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«Si pudiera escoger el Premio Nobel, sería Mo Yan» (Kenzaburo Oe).«Mo Yan merece un lugar en la literatura universal. Su voz encontrará el camino hasta el corazón de los lectores» (Amy Tan).Mo Yan es el autor más famoso, prohibido y al mismo tiempo pirateado de la China contemporánea. Conocida en Occidente gracias a la adaptación cinematográfica de Zhang Yimou, Sorgo rojo es una novela sobre la familia, el mito y la memoria, en la que fábula e historia se unen para crear una ficción cruel e inolvidable. Ambientada en una zona rural de la provincia de Shangdong, Sorgo rojo arranca con la invasi... continue