Read Around Asia Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Asia.
Best books from Asia (1411)
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The Broken Wings by Kahlil Gibran EN
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This is the exquisitely tender story of love that beats desperately against the taboos of Oriental tradition. With great sensitivity, Gibran describes his passion as a youth for Selma Karamy, the girl of Beirut who first unfolded to him the secrets of love. But it is a love that is doomed by a social convention which forces Selma into marriage with another man. Portraying the happiness and infinite sorrow of his relationship with Selma, Gibran at the same time probes the spiritual meaning of human existence with profound compassion.
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Der Prophet. Der Narr. Der Wanderer by Khalīl Ǧibrān DE
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Die Parabeln und Gleichnisse des libanesischen Dichterphilosophen Khalil Gibran erzählen in betörend schlichter Sprache von der menschlichen Suche nach Wahrheit und Aufrichtigkeit, berichten von Liebe und Freundschaft und geben einsichtsvolle Antworten auf die existentiellen Fragen des Lebens. Dieser Band versammelt Gibrans berühmteste Werke Der Prophet, Der Narr und Der Wanderer in neuer Übersetzung.
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The Last Templar by Raymond Khoury EN
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When the opening gala of a Vatican exhibit attended by archaeologist Tess Chaykin is stormed by four horsemen dressed as Templar Knights who steal an artifact, FBI anti-terrorist specialist Sean Reilly and Tess team up for an investigation. Reprint.
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I Remember Beirut by Zeina Abirached EN
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Zeina Abirached, author of the award-winning graphic novel A Game for Swallows, returns with a powerful collection of wartime memories. Abirached was born in Lebanon in 1981. She grew up in Beirut as fighting between Christians and Muslims divided the city streets. Follow her past cars riddled with bullet holes, into taxi cabs that travel where buses refuse to go, and n outings to collect shrapnel from the sidewalk. With striking black-and-white artwork, Abirached recalls the details of ordinary life inside a war zone.
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Brieven in de nacht by Hoda Barakat NL
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Sombere brieven, zonder adres of afzender, geschreven door mensen die gevlucht of verbannen zijn aan een geliefd iemand.
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Tomando como hilo conductor los avatares de un manuscrito que, con el nombre de la mítica ciudad de Samarcanda, contiene las famosas «Ruba1iyyat» del poeta persa Omar Jayyám, Amin Maalouf recrea en esta novela un fascinante y tumultuoso mundo oriental. En el marco de la Persia medieval, desgarrada por profundas contradicciones, dos figuras destacan junto a la del que, además de poeta, fuera astrónomo, geómetra y filósofo: la de Nizam el-Molk, gran visir del sultán Malikxah, y la del misterioso ismaelí Hassan Sabbah, fundador de la secta de los Asesinos, que desde su fortaleza de Alamut mantuvo... continue
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The Hakawati by Rabih Alameddine EN
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“Here is absolute beauty. One of the finest novels I’ve read in years.” —Junot Diaz An astonishingly inventive, wonderfully exuberant novel that takes us from the shimmering dunes of ancient Egypt to the war-torn streets of twenty-first-century Lebanon. In 2003, Osama al-Kharrat returns to Beirut after many years in America to stand vigil at his father’s deathbed. The city is a shell of the Beirut Osama remembers, but he and his friends and family take solace in the things that have always sustained them: gossip, laughter, and, above all, stories. Osama’s grandfather was a hakawati, or storyte... continue
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Yalo by Elias Khoury ES
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«Yalo no lo entendió, y ese fue su pecado capital. Se agarró a las cuerdas de una voz quebrada y siguió jugando con una mujer rota.». Elias Khoury nos sumerge en un universo de malentendidos brutales, amor y alienación, autodescubrimiento y luminosa trascendencia. En el centro del torbellino, Yalo: un joven que vaga entre mundos como un perro callejero en las calles de Beirut durante la guerra civil libanesa. Vive con su madre y entra en contacto con un grupo peligroso cuyas arriesgadas aventuras le parecen un juego. Sin embargo, el juego se convierte en una amenazante realidad cuando le acusa... continue