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Far East Books
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Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as far-east)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,092,591 ratings — published 1997
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as far-east)
avg rating 3.99 — 709,620 ratings — published 1987
South of the Border, West of the Sun (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as far-east)
avg rating 3.86 — 147,202 ratings — published 1992
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as far-east)
avg rating 4.34 — 598,204 ratings — published 2017
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as far-east)
avg rating 4.12 — 536,170 ratings — published 2002
After Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as far-east)
avg rating 3.74 — 185,006 ratings — published 2004
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as far-east)
avg rating 4.11 — 149,957 ratings — published 1985
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as far-east)
avg rating 4.09 — 384,296 ratings — published 2005
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as far-east)
avg rating 3.95 — 557,814 ratings — published -500
Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as far-east)
avg rating 3.92 — 161,560 ratings — published 2009
Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as far-east)
avg rating 4.41 — 209,053 ratings — published 1975
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
by (shelved 11 times as far-east)
avg rating 3.95 — 335,549 ratings — published 2009
The Joy Luck Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as far-east)
avg rating 3.97 — 705,775 ratings — published 1989
Men Without Women (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as far-east)
avg rating 3.74 — 123,136 ratings — published 2014
A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)
by (shelved 11 times as far-east)
avg rating 3.94 — 139,004 ratings — published 1982
Sputnik Sweetheart (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as far-east)
avg rating 3.83 — 177,754 ratings — published 1999
Tao Te Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as far-east)
avg rating 4.29 — 179,223 ratings — published -350
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as far-east)
avg rating 4.08 — 473,031 ratings — published 2006
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as far-east)
avg rating 3.87 — 199,631 ratings — published 2013
The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as far-east)
avg rating 4.01 — 258,877 ratings — published 1931
Peony in Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as far-east)
avg rating 3.64 — 50,222 ratings — published 2007
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as far-east)
avg rating 3.67 — 358,141 ratings — published 2016
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as far-east)
avg rating 3.64 — 67,406 ratings — published 2000
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as far-east)
avg rating 4.14 — 309,878 ratings — published 1994
Strange Weather in Tokyo (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as far-east)
avg rating 3.68 — 50,576 ratings — published 2001
Lady Tan’s Circle of Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as far-east)
avg rating 4.35 — 192,490 ratings — published 2023
Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as far-east)
avg rating 4.34 — 3,020 ratings — published 2018
Sweet Bean Paste (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as far-east)
avg rating 4.06 — 69,758 ratings — published 2013
Human Acts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as far-east)
avg rating 4.27 — 67,080 ratings — published 2014
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as far-east)
avg rating 3.65 — 345,310 ratings — published 2007
Kokoro (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as far-east)
avg rating 4.04 — 40,536 ratings — published 1914
Snow Country (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as far-east)
avg rating 3.57 — 39,613 ratings — published 1948
Red Sorghum (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as far-east)
avg rating 3.80 — 8,651 ratings — published 1987
Kitchen (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as far-east)
avg rating 3.90 — 124,543 ratings — published 1988
Dance Dance Dance (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as far-east)
avg rating 4.04 — 98,207 ratings — published 1988
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as far-east)
avg rating 4.30 — 121,510 ratings — published 1991
To Live (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as far-east)
avg rating 4.33 — 23,981 ratings — published 1992
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as far-east)
avg rating 4.49 — 101,295 ratings — published 2015
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as far-east)
avg rating 3.95 — 237,552 ratings — published 1948
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as far-east)
avg rating 4.08 — 857,515 ratings — published 1922
The Pillow Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as far-east)
avg rating 4.02 — 9,722 ratings — published 1002
The Ghost Bride (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as far-east)
avg rating 3.81 — 36,982 ratings — published 2013
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as far-east)
avg rating 3.85 — 828,838 ratings — published 2005
The Buddha in the Attic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as far-east)
avg rating 3.70 — 62,999 ratings — published 2011
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as far-east)
avg rating 4.46 — 97,530 ratings — published 2009
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as far-east)
avg rating 3.66 — 648,596 ratings — published 2015
The Mountains Sing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as far-east)
avg rating 4.31 — 59,449 ratings — published 2020
The Island of Sea Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as far-east)
avg rating 4.32 — 160,033 ratings — published 2019
The Night Tiger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as far-east)
avg rating 3.86 — 65,940 ratings — published 2019
“The truck takes off again on Jalan 15 Oktober, in a cloud of dust, papers and tatters. A half-naked boy, coming out of nowhere, waves at us as if nothing had happened. For a moment, it almost feels like life could go on, just as it always does. But that’s not the case. There’s no time for life here anymore.”
― Il male inutile: Dal Kosovo a Timor Est, dal Chiapas a Bali, le testimonianze di un reporter di guerra
― Il male inutile: Dal Kosovo a Timor Est, dal Chiapas a Bali, le testimonianze di un reporter di guerra
“We Orientals tend to seek our satisfactions in whatever surroundings we happen to find ourselves, to content ourselves with things as they are; and so darkness causes us no discontent, we resign ourselves to it as inevitable. If light is scarce, then light is scarce; we will immerse ourselves in the darkness and there discover its own particular beauty. But the progressive Westerner is determined always to better his lot. From candle to oil lamp, oil lamp to gaslight, gaslight to electric light—his quest for a brighter light never ceases, he spares no pains to eradicate even the minutest shadow.”
― In Praise of Shadows
― In Praise of Shadows
