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Stories of the East
Try the following authors and titles if you like novels and biographies about life in Asia and/or by authors of Asian ancestry (written in English).
Try searching the catalogue for subject headings such as:
Fiction
- Pat Barr, Kenjiro
- Alan Brown, Audrey Hepburn's neck
- Pearl S Buck
- James Clavell
- Liza Dalby, Tale of Murasaki
- Robert S Elegant
- Shusaku Endo
- Alison Fell, The Pillow boy of the Lady Onogoro
- Xingjian Gao, Soul Mountain
- Shizuko Go
- Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
- Kathryn Harrison, The Binding chair
- Lafcadio Hearn
- Masuji Ibuse
- Shotaro Ikenami
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- Hai Jin, Waiting
- Gavin Kramer, Shopping
- Chang-rae Lee
- Bihua Li, Farewell to my concubine
- Bette Bao Lord
- James Melville
- James Michener, The bridges at Toko-ri, Sayonara
- Ian Middleton (NZ), Reiko
- Anchee Min
- Lydia Minatoya
- Yukio Mishima
- David Mitchell, Ghostwritten, Number9dream
- Haruki Murakami
- Murasaki
- Kenzaburo Oe
- Jacqueline Owens (NZ), Bluest moon
- Ruth L Ozeki, My year of meats
- Wan-so Pak, My very last possession and other stories
- John Schwartz, Bicycle days
- Lisa See
- Amy Tan
- Junichiro Tanizaki
- Chiyo Uno, The Story of a single woman
- Anyi Wang
- Mo Yen
- Banana Yoshimoto
Biography & Autobiography
- Jung Chang, Wild swans
- Nien Cheng, Life and death in Shanghai
- Anhua Gao, To the edge of the sky
- Elizabeth Kim, Ten thousand sorrows
- Ying Hong, Daughter of the river: an autobiography
- Adeline Yen Mah, Falling leaves return to their roots and its sequel, Chinese Cinderella
- Aiping Mu, Vermilion Gate
- Jan Wong, Red China blues: My long march from Mao to now
- Ting-xing Ye, A leaf in the bitter wind: a memoir
