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Results for General Fiction, set in East Asia (except China)

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  • One Hour of Fervor
    Muriel Barbery
    Hardcover: 01/30/2024
     
    From the best-selling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog comes a family story with a difference, a novel ...
  • Skull Water: A Novel
    Heinz Insu Fenkl
    Paperback: 12/26/2023
     
    A "mesmerizing" (PW, James McBride) "magnificent" (Ha Jin) intergenerational coming-of-age novel set in South ...
  • My Heart Underwater
    Laurel Fantauzzo
    Paperback: 11/21/2023
     
    Fans of Adib Khorram and Randy Ribay will love this coming-of-age debut about a Filipina American teen ...
  • The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
    Franny Choi
    Paperback: 11/07/2023
     
    From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds—past, present, and ...
  • The Liberators
    E.J. Koh
    Hardcover: 11/07/2023
     
    Extraordinarily beautiful and deeply moving, The Liberators is an elegantly wrought family saga of memory, ...
  • All the Lovers in the Night
    Mieko Kawakami
    Paperback: 05/23/2023
     
    Bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs Mieko Kawakami invites readers back into her immediately recognizable ...
  • Ghost Girl, Banana: A Novel
    Wiz Wharton
    Hardcover: 04/25/2023
     
    Set between the last years of the "Chinese Windrush" in 1966 and Hong Kong's Handover to China in 1997, a ...

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