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Selected reading list of English language novels and short stories, grouped by place and language. Categories: Fiction by Chinese American writers, Japanese American writers, Korean American writers, Vietnamese American writers, Southeast Asian writers, South Asian diaspora writers, and Asian writers; and English fiction about Asia, Asian fiction translated into English. Broadly speaking, this reading list--a reader's advisory resource--relates to Asia Pacific (minus Australia and New Zealand) plus South Asia.
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Compiled by G. Williams, July 2010 Page 1 What Shall I Read Next? ASIAN FICTION: EXPANDED featuring Chinese American Fiction & Japanese American Fiction & Korean American Fiction & Vietnamese American Fiction & Southeast Asian Diaspora Fiction & South Asian Diaspora Fiction & English Fiction by Asian Writers & English Fiction About Asia & Asian Fiction Translated into English I compiled this reading list as a replacement for an outdated 2001 reading list titled, “Asian Fiction.” When I began I asked myself, what could a patron in Florida possibly mean if he or she expressed a desire to read “some Asian fiction,” and how might a librarian respond? I decided several possibilities might interest such a reader, and compiled a reading list of Asian fiction around broad categories of place and language (English books by writers from Asia, or English books about Asia, or books about Asia translated into English). I hope my categories are useful for a reader wishing to look across the majestic Pacific toward vast Asia. A word about my omissions and the scope of this reading list. Books about Central Asia, Russia, Australia, and New Zealand are beyond the scope of this reading list, so by the term, Asia, I do not mean those Asian countries or regions. In other words, it may be helpful to think about the regions covered here as Asia Pacific (minus Australia & New Zealand) plus South Asia. I compiled this list by focusing on fiction published from the mid- 1990s onward and on works our library system holds, so some classics and earlier works (sad to say!) do not appear on this list. No doubt I have missed some writers and their works that we do hold in our library system. My categories for books by writers from Asia. The first four groups on this list present fiction originally written in English by North American writers with ethnic connections to East Asia or to Vietnam: fiction by Chinese American writers (USA & Canada), by Japanese Americans, by Korean Americans, and by Vietnamese Americans. “Southeast Asian Diaspora Fiction” is defined as English fiction by writers from various Southeast Asia countries (but not Vietnam) and Pacific islands, including the State of Hawaii. “South Asian Diaspora Fiction” is defined as English fiction by expatriate writers from South Asia, that is, from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, or Sri Lanka. “English Fiction by Asian Writers” means English fiction by writers living in their home Asian countries, the majority of whom hail from South Asia. My categories for books about Asia. I defined “English Fiction About Asia” as books about Asia, originally written in English by writers from various backgrounds. This group includes books not appearing elsewhere, such as David Peace’s Tokyo Year Zero, as well as books listed under other categories (such as Chinese American writers) if the books are about Asia. Many books by expatriate writers are not about Asia and are not included in this group. Books originally published in a language other than English are not included in “English Fiction About Asia.” My final category, “Asian Fiction Translated into English,” seems self-explanatory, and yet another occasion for us to think warmly of translators.
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What Shall I Read Next?

ASIAN FICTION: EXPANDED featuring Chinese American Fiction & Japanese American Fiction & Korean American Fiction & Vietnamese American Fiction & Southeast Asian Diaspora Fiction & South Asian Diaspora Fiction & English Fiction by Asian Writers & English Fiction About Asia & Asian Fiction Translated into English

I compiled this reading list as a replacement for an outdated 2001 reading list titled, “Asian Fiction.” When I began I asked myself, what could a patron in Florida possibly mean if he or she expressed a desire to read “some Asian fiction,” and how might a librarian respond? I decided several possibilities might interest such a reader, and compiled a reading list of Asian fiction around broad categories of place and language (English books by writers from Asia, or English books about Asia, or books about Asia translated into English). I hope my categories are useful for a reader wishing to look across the majestic Pacific toward vast Asia.

A word about my omissions and the scope of this reading list. Books about Central Asia, Russia, Australia, and New Zealand are beyond the scope of this reading list, so by the term, Asia, I do not mean those Asian countries or regions. In other words, it may be helpful to think about the regions covered here as Asia Pacific (minus Australia & New Zealand) plus South Asia. I compiled this list by focusing on fiction published from the mid-1990s onward and on works our library system holds, so some classics and earlier works (sad to say!) do not appear on this list. No doubt I have missed some writers and their works that we do hold in our library system.

My categories for books by writers from Asia. The first four groups on this list present fiction originally written in English by North American writers with ethnic connections to East Asia or to Vietnam: fiction by Chinese American writers (USA & Canada), by Japanese Americans, by Korean Americans, and by Vietnamese Americans. “Southeast Asian Diaspora Fiction” is defined as English fiction by writers from various Southeast Asia countries (but not Vietnam) and Pacific islands, including the State of Hawaii. “South Asian Diaspora Fiction” is defined as English fiction by expatriate writers from South Asia, that is, from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, or Sri Lanka. “English Fiction by Asian Writers” means English fiction by writers living in their home Asian countries, the majority of whom hail from South Asia.

My categories for books about Asia. I defined “English Fiction About Asia” as books about Asia, originally written in English by writers from various backgrounds. This group includes books not appearing elsewhere, such as David Peace’s Tokyo Year Zero, as well as books listed under other categories (such as Chinese American writers) if the books are about Asia. Many books by expatriate writers are not about Asia and are not included in this group. Books originally published in a language other than English are not included in “English Fiction About Asia.” My final category, “Asian Fiction Translated into English,” seems self-explanatory, and yet another occasion for us to think warmly of translators.

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If the first decade of the 21st century is any indication, readers of English can expect many more books by Asian writers or about Asia in the future. How exciting.

Chinese American writers

Chan, Jeffrey Paul Chieng, Chieh Choy, Wayson Fei, Deanna Jen, Gish Kelter, Kim Wong Lee, C.Y. Liu, Aimee Min, Anchee Ng, Fae Myenne Ng, Mei Tan, Amy

Eat Everything Before You Die: a Chinaman in the Counterculture, 2004 A Long Stay in a Distant Land, 2005 All That Matters, 2007 The Jade Peony, 1997 A Thread of Sky, 2010 The Love Wife, 2004 Who’s Irish?, 1999 Mona in the Promised Land, 1996 Typical American, 1991 Buddha Baby, 2005 The Dim Sum of All Things, 2004 Gate of Rage, 1991 The Second Son of Heaven, 1990 China Saga, 1987 Flash House, 2003 Cloud Mountain, 1997 Face, 1994 Pearl of China, 2010 The Last Empress, 2007 Empress Orchid, 2004 Wild Ginger, 2002 Becoming Madame Mao, 2000 Katherine, 1995 Steer Toward Rock, 2008 Bone, 1993 Eating Chinese Food Naked, 1998 Saving Fish From Drowning, 2005 The Bonesetter’s Daughter, 2001 The Hundred Secret Senses, 1995 The Kitchen God’s Wife, 1991 The Joy Luck Club, 1989

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Wan, Michelle Wang, Annie Wong, Shawn Yang, Belle

A Twist of Orchids, 2010 The Orchid Shroud, 2006 Deadly Slipper, 2005 Lili: a Novel of Tiananmen, 2001 Homebase, 1991 Odyssey of a Manchurian, 1996 Baba: a Return to China Upon My Father’s Shoulders, 1994

Japanese American writers

Avery, Ellis Creel, Ann Howard Hamamura, John Hirahara, Naomi Kogawa, Joy Massey, Sujata Mori, Toshio Revoyr, Nina See, Lisa Yoshikawa, Mako

The Teahouse Fire, 2006 The Magic of Ordinary Days, 2001 Color of the Sea, 2006 Blood Hina: a Mas Arai Mystery, 2010 Gasa-gasa Girl, 2005 Summer of the Big Bachi, 2003 Itsuka, 1994 Obasan, 1982 The Typhoon Lover, 2005 The Pearl Diver, 2004 The Samurai’s Daughter, 2003 The Bride’s Kimono, 2001 The Chauvinist and Other Stories, 1979 The Age of Dreaming, 2008 Southland, 2003 The Necessary Hunger, 1997 Shanghai Girls, 2009 Peony in Love, 2007 Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, 2005 Dragon Bones, 2003 The Interior, 1999 Once Removed, 2003 One Hundred and One Ways, 1999

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Korean American writers

Adachi, Jiro Chang, Leonard Choi, Susan Hwang, Caroline Keller, Nora Okja Kim, Patti Kim, Suki Lee, Chang-rae Lee, Don Lee, Edward Lee, Marie G. Lee, Min Jin Talarigo, Jeff Woo, Sung J. Yun, Mia

The Island of Bicycle Dancers, 2004 Fade to Clear, 2004 Underkill, 2003 A Person of Interest, 2008 American Woman, 2003 The Foreign Student, 1998 In Full Bloom, 2004 Comfort Woman, 1997 A Cab Called Reliable, 1997 The Interpreter, 2003 The Surrendered, 2010 Aloft, 2004 A Gesture Life, 1999 Native Speaker, 1995 Wrack and Ruin, 2008 Country of Origin, 2004 Yellow: Stories, 2001 The Good Man, 2004 Somebody’s Daughter, 2005 Free Food for Millionaires, 2007 The Ginseng Hunter, 2008 Everything Asian, 2009 Translations of Beauty, 2004

Vietnamese American writers

Cao, Lan Dihn, Lihn Le, Thi Diem Thuy Nguyen, Bich Minh Phan, Aimee

Monkey Bridge, 1997 Fake House, 2000 The Gangster We are all Looking For, 2003 Short Girls, 2009 We Should Never Meet, 2004

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Soli, Tatjana Truong, Monique T.D. Vida, Nina

The Lotus Eaters, 2010 The Book of Salt, 2003 Goodbye, Saigon, 1994

Southeast Asian Diaspora writers (from Philippines, Thailand, Pacific islands including Hawaii, but not from Vietnam)

Davenport, Kiana Hagedorn, Jessica Tarahata Hemmings, Kaui Hart Iida, Deborah Jose, F. Sionil Murayama, Milton Ong, Han Waiwaiole, Lono Yamanaka, Lois-Ann

House of Many Gods, 2006 Song of the Exile, 1999 Dream Jungle, 2003 Gangster of Love, 1996 Dogeaters, 1991 The Descendants, 2007 House of Thieves, 2005 Middle Son, 1996 The Samsons; The Pretenders; and Mass, 2000 Sins, 1996 Three Filipino Women, 1992 Five Years on a Rock, 1994 The Disinherited, 2004 Fixer Chao, 2001 Wiley’s Refrain, 2005 Behold the Many, 2006 Father of the Four Passages, 2001 Heads by Harry, 1999 Blu’s Hanging, 1997

South Asian Diaspora writers (from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka)

Abidi, Azhar Agarwal, Shilpa Ali, Monica Ali, Samina Anam, Tahmima

The House of Bilqis, 2009 Passarola Rising, 2006 Haunting Bombay, 2007 In the Kitchen, 2009 Alentejo Blue, 2006 Brick Lane, 2003 Madras on Rainy Days, 2004 A Golden Age, 2008

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Aslam, Nadeem Banerjee, Anjali Basu, Kunal Chaudhuri, Amit Daswani, Kavita Desai, Anita Desai, Kiran Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee Farooki, Roopa Ganeshananthan, V.V. Ghosh, Amitav Gunesekera, Romesh Irani, Anosh Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer

The Wasted Vigil, 2008 Maps for Lost Lovers, 2005 Imaginary Men, 2005 The Miniaturist, 2003 The Opium Clerk, 2001 The Immortals, 2009 Real Time, 2002 The Village Bride of Beverly Hills, 2004 The Zigzag Way, 2004 Diamond Dust: Stories, 2000 Fasting, Feasting, 1999 Journey to Ithaca, 1996 Baumgartner’s Bombay, 1989 The Inheritance of Loss, 2006 Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, 1998 One Amazing Thing, 2009 Queen of Dreams, 2004 The Vine of Desire, 2002 The Unknown Errors of Our Lives, 2001 The Mistress of Spices, 1997 Half Life, 2010 Corner Shop, 2009 Bitter Sweets, 2007 Love Marriage, 2008 Sea of Poppies, 2008 The Hungry Tide, 2005 The Glass Palace, 2001 The Sandglass, 1998 Reef, 1994 The Song of Kahunsha, 2007 The Cripple and His Talismans, 2005 My Nine Lives, 2004 East into Upper East: Plain Tales from New York and New Delhi, 2004 Shards of Memory, 1995

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Kunzru, Hari Lahiri, Jhumpa Malladi, Amulya Mastras, George Mehta, Gita Mistry, Rohinton Mohanraj, Mary Anne Mukherjee, Bharati Naipaul, V.S. Ondaatje, Michael Pradhan, Monica Rushdie, Salman

Esmond in India, 1990 Out of India: Selected Stories, 1986 My Revolutions, 2008 Transmission, 2004 The Impressionist, 2002 Unaccustomed Earth, 2008 The Namesake, 2003 Interpreter of Maladies, 1999 Song of the Cuckoo Bird, 2006 Serving Crazy With Curry, 2004 The Mango Season, 2003 A Breath of Fresh Air, 2002 Fidali’s Way, 2009 A River Sutra, 1994 Raj, 1991 Family Matters, 2002 A Fine Balance, 1996 Such a Long Journey, 1991 Swimming Lessons, and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag, 1989 Bodies in Motion, 2005 The Tree Bride, 2004 Desirable Daughters, 2002 The Holder of the World, 1993 Magic Seeds, 2004 Half a Life, 2001 A Way in the World, 1994 A Bend in the River, 1989 The Enigma of Arrival, 1987 Guerillas, 1975 Anil’s Ghost, 2000 The English Patient, 1992 The Hindi-Bindi Club, 2007 The enchantress of Florence, 2008 Shalimar the Clown, 2005 The Ground Beneath Her Feet, 1999 The Moor’s Last Sigh, 1996

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Satyal, Rakesh Selvadurai, Shyam Seth, Vikram Shamsie, Kamila Shanghvi, Siddharth Dhanvant Sidhwa, Bapsi Sinha, Indra Sundaresan, Indu Tharoor, Shashi Umrigar, Thrity Upadhyay, Samrat Vanssanji, M.G. Zama, Farahad

Haroun and the Sea of Stories, 1990 The Satanic Verses, 1989 Shame, 1983 Midnight’s Children, 1981 Blue Boy, 2009 Cinnamon Gardens, 2000 Funny Boy, 1997 A Suitable Boy, 1993 Burnt Shadows, 2009 Broken Verses, 2005 Kartography, 2002 Salt and Saffron, 2000 The Last Song of Dusk, 2004 An American Brat, 1993 Cracking India, 1991 Animal’s People, 2008 The Death of Mr. Love, 2004 Shadow Princess, 2010 In the Convent of Little Flowers, 2008 The Splendor of Silence, 2006 The Feast of Roses, 2003 The Twentieth Wife, 2003 Riot, 2001 The Five-Dollar Smile and Other Stories, 1993 Show Business, 1992 The Weight of Heaven, 2009 The Space Between Us, 2005 Bombay Time, 2001 The Royal Ghosts, 2006 The Guru of Love, 2003 The Assassin’s Song, 2007 The Marriage Bureau for Rich People, 2009

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English Fiction by Asian Writers

Adiga, Aravind Advaita Kala Bajwa, Rupa Bhagat, Chetan Hamid, Mohsin Hanif, Mohammed Jha, Raj Kamal Khan, Uzma Aslam Mueenuddin, Daniyal Nair, Anita Rangel-Ribeiro, Victor Roy, Arundhati Suri, Manil Swarup, Vikas Tejpal, Tarun Tyrewala, Altaf

Between the Assassinations, 2009 The White Tiger, 2008 Almost Single, 2009 The Sari Shop, 2004 One Night at the Call Center, 2007 The Reluctant Fundamentalist, 2007 Moth Smoke, 2000 A Case of Exploding Mangoes, 2008 If You are Afraid of Heights, 2004 The Blue Bedspread, 2000 The Geometry of God, 2009 Trespassing, 2004 In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, 2009 Mistress, 2006 Ladies Coupe, 2004 Tivolem, 1998 The God of Small Things, 1997 The Age of Shiva, 2007 The Death of Vishnu, 2001 Six Suspects, 2009 Q & A, 2005 The Alchemy of Desire, 2005 No God in Sight, 2006

English Fiction About Asia

Abidi, Azhar Adiga, Aravind Advaita Kala Agarwal, Shilpa

The House of Bilqis, 2009 Between the Assassinations, 2009 The White Tiger, 2008 Almost Single, 2009 Haunting Bombay, 2009

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Ali, Thalassa Aslam, Nadeem Avery, Ellis Bajwa, Rupa Basu, Kunal Bhagat, Chetan Buck, Pearl Burdett, John Chaudhuri, Amit Cornwell, Bernard Desai, Anita Desai, Kiran Dihn, Lihn Farooki, Roopa Forster, E.M. Golden, Arthur Ghosh, Amitav

Companions of Paradise, 2007 A Beggar at the Gate, 2004 A Singular Hostage, 2002 The Wasted Vigil, 2008 The Teahouse Fire, 2006 The Sari Shop, 2004 The Miniaturist, 2003 The Opium Clerk, 2001 One Night at the Call Center, 2007 The Good Earth, 1949 The Godfather of Kathmandu, 2010 Bangkok Haunts, 2007 Bangkok Tattoo, 2005 Bangkok 8, 2003 The Immortals, 2009 Real Time, 2002 Sharpe’s Tiger, 2005 Sharpe’s Fortress, 2000 Sharpe’s Triumph, 1998 Diamond Dust: Stories, 2000 Fasting, Feasting, 1999 Journey to Ithaca, 1996 Baumgartner’s Bombay, 1989 The Inheritance of Loss, 2006 Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, 1998 Fake House, 2000 Half Life, 2010 Bitter Sweets, 2007 A Passage to India, 1952 Memoirs of a Geisha, 1997 Sea of Poppies, 2008 The Hungry Tide, 2005

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Gunesekera, Romesh Hagedorn, Jessica Tarahata Hallinan, Timothy Hamid, Mohsin Hanif, Mohammed Irani, Anosh Jha, Raj Kamal Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer Jose, F. Sionil Khan, Uzma Aslam Kipling, Rudyard Kogawa, Joy Kunzru, Hari Lee, Chang-rae Lee, C.Y.

The Glass Palace, 2001 The Sandglass, 1998 Reef, 1994 Dream Jungle, 2003 Breathing Water, 2009 The Fourth Watcher, 2008 A Nail Through the Heart, 2007 The Reluctant Fundamentalist, 2007 Moth Smoke, 2000 A Case of Exploding Mangoes, 2008 The Song of Kahunsha, 2007 The Cripple and His Talismans, 2005 If You are Afraid of Heights, 2004 The Blue Bedspread, 2000 My Nine Lives, 2004 East into Upper East: Plain Tales from New York and New Delhi, 2004 Shards of Memory, 1995 Esmond in India, 1990 Out of India: Selected Stories, 1986 The Samsons; The Pretenders; and Mass, 2000 Sins, 1996 Three Filipino Women, 1992 The Geometry of God, 2009 Trespassing, 2004 Kim, 1901 Itsuka, 1994 Obasan, 1982 The Impressionist, 2002 The Surrendered, 2010 A Gesture Life, 1999 Gate of Rage, 1991 The Second Son of Heaven, 1990 China Saga, 1987

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Lee, Don Lee, Marie G. Malladi, Amalya Marlantes, Karl Mehta, Gita Min, Anchee Mistry, Rohinton Mohanraj, Mary Anne Mueenuddin, Daniyal Mukherjee, Bharati Nair, Anita Ondaatje, Michael Orwell, George Peace, David Phan, Aimee Rangel-Ribeiro, Victor

Country of Origin, 2004 Somebody’s Daughter, 2005 Song of the Cuckoo Bird, 2006 The Mango Season, 2003 A Breath of Fresh Air, 2002 Matterhorn: a Novel of the Vietnam War, 2010 A River Sutra, 1994 Raj, 1991 Pearl of China, 2010 The Last Empress, 2007 Empress Orchid, 2004 Wild Ginger, 2002 Becoming Madame Mao, 2000 Katherine, 1995 Family Matters, 2002 A Fine Balance, 1996 Such a Long Journey, 1991 Swimming Lessons, and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag, 1989 Bodies in Motion, 2005 In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, 2009 The Tree Bride, 2004 Desirable Daughters, 2002 The Holder of the World, 1993 Mistress, 2006 Ladies Coupe, 2004 Anil’s Ghost, 2000 Burmese Days, 1950 Occupied City, 2010 Tokyo Year Zero, 2007 We Should Never Meet, 2004 Tivolem, 1998

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Roy, Arundhati Rushdie, Salman See, Lisa Selvadurai, Shyam Seth, Vikram Shamsie, Kamila Shanghvi, Siddharth Dhanvant Sidhwa, Bapsi Sinha, Indra Soli, Tatjana Sundaresan, Indu Suri, Manil Swarup, Vikas Tan, Amy Talarigo, Jeff

The God of Small Things, 1997 The Enchantress of Florence, 2008 Shalimar the Clown, 2005 The Ground Beneath Her Feet, 1999 The Moor’s Last Sigh, 1996 Haroun and the Sea of Stories, 1990 The Satanic Verses, 1989 Shame, 1983 Midnight’s Children, 1981 Peony in Love, 2007 Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, 2005 Dragon Bones, 2003 The Interior, 1999 Cinnamon Gardens, 2000 Funny Boy, 1997 A Suitable Boy, 1993 Burnt Shadows, 2009 Broken Verses, 2005 Kartography, 2002 The Last Song of Dusk, 2004 Cracking India, 1991 Animal’s People, 2008 The Death of Mr. Love, 2004 The Lotus Eaters, 2010 Shadow Princess, 2010 In the Convent of Little Flowers, 2008 The Feast of Roses, 2003 The Twentieth Wife, 2003 The Age of Shiva, 2007 The Death of Vishnu, 2001 Six Suspects, 2009 Q & A, 2005 Saving Fish From Drowning, 2005 The Bonesetter’s Daughter, 2001 The Ginseng Hunter, 2008

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Tejpal, Tarun Tharoor, Shashi Tsukiyama, Gail Tyrewala, Altaf Umrigar, Thrity Upadhyay, Samrat Vanssanji, M.G. Vonnegut, Kurt Wang, Annie Yang, Belle Zama, Farahad

The Alchemy of Desire, 2005 Riot, 2001 The Five-Dollar Smile and Other Stories, 1993 Show Business, 1992 The Street of a Thousand Blossoms, 2007 The Language of Threads, 1999 Night of Many Dreams, 1998 The Samurai’s Garden, 1996 Women of the Silk, 1991 No God in Sight, 2006 The Weight of Heaven, 2009 The Space Between Us, 2005 Bombay Time, 2001 The Royal Ghosts, 2006 The Guru of Love, 2003 The Assassin’s Song, 2007 Hocus Pocus, 1990 Lili: a Novel of Tianenmen, 2001 Odyssey of a Manchurian, 1996 Baba: a Return to China Upon My Father’s Shoulders, 1994 The Marriage Bureau for Rich People, 2009

Asian Fiction Translated into English

translated from the Burmese: Nu Nu Yi

Bao, Ninh Chang, Ailing Cheng, Naishan Choe, Yun Chughtai, Ismat Duong, Thu Huong

The Sorrow of War: a novel of North Vietnam, 1995 Love in a Fallen City, 2007 The Banker, 1992 The Piano Tuner, 1989 There a Petal Silently Falls, 2008 The Crooked Line, 1995 No Man’s Land, 2005 Beyond Illusions, 2002

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translated from the Chinese: Chang, Ailing Cheng, Naishan Gao, Xingjian Hong, Ying Ma, Jian Mao, Dun Mo, Yan Su, Tong Wang, Gang Wang, Lulu Xinran Xu, Xiaobin Yen, Geling Yu, Hua Zhu, Wen translated from the Japanese: Kawabata, Yasunari Mishima, Yukio Miyabe, Miyuki Murakami, Haruki Nagai, Kafu Oe, Kenzaburo Suzuki, Koji Tsutsui, Yasutaka Yoshimoto, Banana Yoshimura, Akira translated from the Korean: Choe, Yun Han, Mu-suk Hwang, Sogyong Hwang, Sunwon translated from the Urdu: Chughtai, Ismat Naiyer Masud translated from the Vietnamese: Bao, Ninh Duong, Thu Huong

Gao, Xingjian Han, Mu-suk Hong, Ying Hwang, Sogyong Hwang, Sunwon Kawabata, Yasunari Ma, Jian Mao, Dun Mishima, Yukio Miyabe, Miyuki Mo, Yan Murakami, Haruki Nagai, Kafu Naiyer Masud

Memories of a Pure Spring, 2000 Buying a Fishing Rod for my Grandfather, 2004 One Man’s Bible, 2002 Soul Mountain, 2000 Encounter: a Novel of Nineteenth Century Korea, 1992 Peacock Cries: At the Three Gorges, 2004 K: The Art of Love, 2002 The Old Garden, 2009 Shadows of a Sound, 2007 The Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories, 1997 Snow Country, 1996 Thousand Cranes, 1996 The Old Capital, 1987 The Master of Go, 1981 Bejing Coma, 2008 Stick Out Your Tongue, 2006 The Noodlemaker, 2005 Rainbow, 1992 The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, 1994 The Decay of the Angel, 1990 Spring Snow, 1990 The Temple of Dawn, 1990 Acts of Worship, 1989 The Sleeping Dragon, 2009 The Devil's Whisper, 2007 All She was Worth, 1996 Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out, 2008 Big Breasts and Wide Hips, 2004 After Dark, 2007 After the Quake, 2003 South of the Border, West of the Sun, 1998 Rivalry: a Geisha’s Tale, 2007 Snake Catcher, 2006 Essence of Camphor, 1999

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Nu Nu Yi Oe, Kenzaburo Su, Tong Suzuki, Koji Tsutsui, Yasutaka Wang, Gang Wang, Lulu Xinran Xu, Xiaobin Yen, Geling Yoshimoto, Banana Yoshimura, Akira Yu, Hua Zhu, Wen

Smile as They Bow, 2008 The Changeling, 2010 Somersault, 2003 Rouse up, O Young Men of the New Age, 2002 Two Novels: Seventeen, J, 1996 Nip the Bud, Shoot the Kids, 1995 Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness, 1977 The Silent Cry, 1974 My Life as an Emperor, 2005 Raise the Red Lantern: three novellas, 1993 Paradise, 2006 Loop, 2005 Dark Water, 2004 Ring, 2003 Salmonella Men on Planet Porno, 2008 English, 2009 The Lily Theater, 2000 Sky Burial: an Epic Love Story of Tibet, 2005 Feather Serpent, 2009 White Snake and Other Stories, 1999 Hardboiled and Hard Luck, 2005 Goodbye, Tsugumi, 2002 Asleep, 2000 Storm Rider, 2004 One Man’s Justice, 2001 On Parole, 1999 Shipwrecks, 1996 Brothers, 2009 To Live, 2003 I Love Dollars and Other Stories of China, 2008


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