Tag: Asia books

Lemon by Korean author Kwon Yeo-sun is a crime novel that explores aliveness and the impact of events on families.

In Love in the Big City by Sang Young Park, the narrator manages to silence both himself and the reader after an animated and lusty beginning.

The stories in Scales of Injustice give you an idea of the waters Taiwanese author Lōa Hō had to navigate to expose wrongs in society.

Interesting books set on or featuring mysterious, magical and absurd islands that drag you into the most fascinating situations.

Shoko's Smile by Korean author Choi Eunyoung shows both the beautiful and the painful sides of friendships found in unexpected places.

So We Look to the Sky by Misumi Kobo explores (sexual) relationships between people who make the most of life with the cards they were dealt at birth.

Faraway by Lo Yi-Chin depicts the complicated relationship between a father and a son through the latter's Kafkaesque experience in a foreign hospital.

Fate by Zhou Haohui is a fast-paced suspense novel set in China in which the police and the perpetrator race each other to find answers.

In First Person Singular, Murakami gives you a first person’s perspective as he takes you on a trip down memory lane.

Satellite Love by Genki Ferguson is about a lonely girl looking for a soul - a companion - in an unexpected place.