Tag: Asia books

What are the most popular Hong Kong books? Check out these books about Hong Kong to start immersing yourself in the culture before your visit to Hong Kong.

The poems in Some Are Always Hungry by Jihyun Yun have a good flow and read like stories. Get ready to sympathize with (human) food...

The Law of Lines by Korean author Hye-young Pyun is a psychological novel set in Seoul. The story slowly unwinds until you’re left with a complete understanding of what happened and why.

Winter in Sokcho by French author Elisa Shua Dusapin is a beautiful story set in South Korea, wonderfully crafted with a deeper layer underneath.

I Live in the Slums by Chinese author Can Xue is a mesmerizing short story collection featuring stories that are both mysterious and beautiful.

In Sayaka Murata’s Earthlings, the submissive, the witch, and the rebel all deal with society's expectations in their own way.

What Makes a City? by Korean author Park Seongwon is a short story collection with intriguing stories. All of them deep and moving, discussing heavy themes in a light and dark humor kind of way.

The Disaster Tourist by Korean author Yun Ko-eun is a perfect blend between reality and imagination that questions our view on issues in society.

"You could give women something real. Real hope. Precedent. Empowerment." That’s the type of novel Natsuko Natsume, our main character, considers writing and that Japanese author Mieko Kawakami has delivered with Breasts and Eggs.

A locked-room murder, red-ochre-painted walls and the sound of the koto. Can you solve the murder mystery faster than private detective Kosuke Kindaichi?