Tag: Asia books

In Where the Wild Ladies Are, Japanese author Matsuda Aoko links the present to the past by incorporating Japanese ghost and yokai tales into a modern world.

The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida by Clarissa Goenawan is a novel about people trying to find the strength to be who they are so they can stop pretending.

b, Book, and Me by Korean author Kim Sagwa discusses the reasons for bullying and being bullied. If only you could become an ocean, a fish, or a book to escape such fate.

What are the most famous Japanese books about cats with an English translation? In some of them the cat is even the main character of the book.

Inheritors by Asako Serizawa shows the effects of WWII on families through stories spanning decades. Set in the USA and Japan, it explores how history is lived.

The Mermaid from Jeju by Sumi Hahn is a magical tale with a dark edge set on Jeju Island in South Korea.

If you’re looking for stories that make you question everything you read, then read Bluebeard’s First Wife by Korean author Ha Seong-nan.

Seven Years of Darkness by Korean author You-jeong Jeong is a thriller that exposes the relationships between family members. What will you do to protect your idea of a perfect family?

Spark by Japanese author Naoki Matayoshi is both inspiring and sad. A novel about two Manzai performers who pour their souls into their art, only to find out that the audience wants something different.

Almond by Won-pyung Sohn is a touching story about two vastly different boys that grow closer by talking and somehow end up complementing each other.