Read Around Asia Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Asia.
Best books from Asia (1333)
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A Land Without Jasmine by Wajdī Ahdal EN
YemenDescription:
A compulsive thriller that keeps the reader turning the page and provides a fascinating insight on life in Yemen.
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They Die Strangers by Mohammad Abdul-Wali, Muhạmmad ʻAbd al-Walī, Muḥammad Aḥmad ʻAbd-al-Walī EN
Description:
A novella and thirteen short stories by this distinguished Yemeni writer, dealing with the common experiences of Yemenis like himself who are caught between cultures by the displacements of civil war or labor migration.
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The Fox Hunt : A Refugee’s Memoir of Coming to America by Mohammed Al Samawi EN
Description:
“Nail-bitingly suspenseful. ... Inspiring. ... Essential reading.” — Booklist, starred review The Fox Hunt tells one young man’s unforgettable story of war, unlikely friendship, and his harrowing escape from Yemen's brutal civial war with the help of a daring plan engineered on social media by a small group of interfaith activists in the West. Born in the Old City of Sana’a, Yemen, to a pair of middle-class doctors, Mohammed Al Samawi was a devout Muslim raised to think of Christians and Jews as his enemy. But when Mohammed was twenty-three, he secretly received a copy of the Bible, and what h... continue
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The Hostage by Zayd Muṭīʻ Dammāj EN
Description:
A REISSUED CLASSIC BY YEMEN'S ACCLAIMED LITERARY VOICE
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What Have You Left Behind? by Bushra Al-Maqtari EN
Description:
Reminiscent of the work of Nobel Prize laureate Svetlana Alexievich, What Have You Left Behind? powerfully draws together civilian accounts of the Yemeni civil war and serves as a vital reminder of the scale of the human tragedy behind the headlines.
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Moi Nojoud, 10 ans, divorcée by Nujood Ali FR
Description:
Mariée de force à un homme trois fois plus âgé qu'elle, Nojoud est sexuellement abusée. Elle a 10 ans. Ayant demandé en vain le divorce trois mois après ses noces, elle se réfugie au tribunal. Grâce à la mobilisation d'une avocate, des ONG et de la presse locale, elle parvient au divorce. Ce fait est exceptionnel au Yémen où près de la moitié des filles sont mariées en dessous de l'âge légal.
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The Crossing : A Story of East Timor by Luís Cardoso EN
Country: Asia / 
Timor-Leste
Timor-Leste
Description:
East Timor hit the world's newspaper headlines in August 1999 after its bloody, brave vote for independence from Indonesia - one of the great expressions of a people's democratic spirit, and its oppression. Before that - as a Portuguese colony and for 24 years of murderous Indonesian rule - it had been ignored.
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From Timor Leste to Australia : Seven Families, Three Generations Tell Their Stories by Janet Trezise EN
Country: Asia / Timor-Leste
Timor-Leste
Description:
A collection of poignant stories and poems of seven East Timorese families living in Melbourne whose experiences belong to that long history of human tragedy created where violent conflict of power, land and resources takes place, inevitably visiting on ordinary people, disruption and loss. Since 1975 to 1999, men, women and children, and even grandparents, have been forced to flee their beloved homeland, their culture, their language, their families - - and the graves of those murdered in repeated massacres over those years. The East Timorese have a special place in our history: so close geog... continue
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Temporary People by Deepak Unnikrishnan EN
Country: Asia / 
United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates
Description:
"Guest workers of the United Arab Emirates embody multiple worlds and identities and long for home in a fantastical debut work of fiction, winner of the inaugural Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing.… The author's crisp, imaginative prose packs a punch, and his whimsical depiction of characters who oscillate between two lands on either side of the Arabian Sea unspools the kind of immigrant narratives that are rarely told. An enchanting, unparalleled anthem of displacement and repatriation." —Kirkus Reviews In the United Arab Emirates, foreign nationals constitute over 80 percent of ... continue