Oriental


Norwegian Wood
Memoirs of a Geisha
Tao Te Ching
The Art of War
Kafka on the Shore
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Across the Nightingale Floor (Tales of the Otori, #1)
The Vegetarian
A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
82년생 김지영
Convenience Store Woman
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Kitchen
Siddhartha
After Dark
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe Painted Veil by W. Somerset MaughamSnow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa SeeThe Color of Jadeite by Eric D. GoodmanGeisha, a Life by Mineko Iwasaki
Best Orientalist Literature
115 books — 83 voters

Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
Essas considerações levam‑me sempre a imaginar quão diferente seria o aspecto atual da nossa sociedade caso uma cultura científica única, diversa da ocidental, houvesse prosperado no Oriente. Por exemplo, se tivéssemos desenvolvido física ou química únicas, exclusivamente nossas, não teriam, tanto a tecnologia como a indústria nelas baseadas, se desenvolvido de maneira diferente e, por conseguinte, dado origem a incontáveis pequenos inventos, bem como a remédios e a artefatos mais ajustados às c ...more
Junichiro Tanizaki

Ted Chiang
He offered an explanation, speaking of his search for tiny pores in the skin of reality, like the holes that worms bore into wood, and how upon finding one he was able to expand and stretch it the way a glassblower turns a dollop of molten glass into a long-necked pipe, and how he then allowed time to flow like water at one mouth while causing it to thicken like syrup at the other.
Ted Chiang, The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate

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