Book reviews & excerpts from exceptional books set mainly in Asia.
Asia
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Martyr!: A Novel
by Kaveh Akbar
Hardcover: Jan 2024
Paperback: Dec 2024
A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum. ...
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What the Taliban Told Me
by Ian Fritz
Hardcover: Nov 2023
Paperback: Nov 2024
A powerful, timely memoir of a young Air Force linguist coming-of-age in a war that is lost.
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There Are Rivers in the Sky: A Novel
by Elif Shafak
Hardcover: Aug 2024
In the ancient city of Nineveh, on the bank of the River Tigris, King Ashurbanipal of Mesopotamia, erudite but ruthless, built a great library that would crumble with the end of his reign.
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Mina's Matchbox: A Novel
by Yoko Ogawa
Hardcover: Aug 2024
From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, a hypnotic, introspective novel about an affluent Japanese family navigating buried secrets, and their young house guest who uncovers them.
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Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide
by Tahir Hamut Izgil
Hardcover: Aug 2023
Paperback: Aug 2024
A poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a family's escape from genocide
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Every Rising Sun: A Novel
by Jamila Ahmed
Hardcover: Jul 2023
Paperback: Jul 2024
In this riveting take on One Thousand and One Nights, Shaherazade, at the center of her own story, uses wit and political mastery to navigate opulent palaces brimming with treachery and the perils of the Third Crusade as her Persian homeland teeters ...
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Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution
by Tania Branigan
Hardcover: May 2023
Paperback: Jun 2024
An indelible exploration of the invisible scar that runs through the heart of Chinese society and the souls of its citizens.
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Daughters of Shandong
by Eve J. Chung
Hardcover: May 2024
A propulsive, extraordinary novel about a mother and her daughters' harrowing escape to Taiwan as the Communist revolution sweeps through China, by debut author Eve J. Chung, based on her family story.
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Strike the Zither: Kingdom of Three #1
by Joan He
Hardcover: Oct 2022
Paperback: Mar 2024
A dazzling new fantasy from New York Times and Indie bestselling author Joan He, Strike the Zither is a powerful, inventive, and sweeping fantasy that reimagines the Chinese classic tale of the Three Kingdoms.
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Beverly Hills Spy: The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack Pearl Harbor
by Ronald Drabkin
Hardcover: Feb 2024
Paperback: Feb 2025
In the spirit of Ben Macintyre's greatest spy nonfiction, the truly unbelievable and untold story of Frederick Rutland—a debonair British WWI hero, flying ace, fixture of Los Angeles society, and friend of Golden Age Hollywood stars—who ...
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The Women: A Novel
by Kristin Hannah
Hardcover: Feb 2024
From master storyteller Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds, comes the story of a turbulent, transformative era in America: the 1960s.
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One Hour of Fervor
by Muriel Barbery
Hardcover: Jan 2024
From the best-selling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog comes a family story with a difference, a novel about the decisions one makes and the destiny they determine by one of Europe's most brilliant and stylistically subtle authors.
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