The Asian Culture Bookshelf

Explore The Asian Culture Bookshelf—your ultimate guide to the finest Asian literature. Discover must-read books spanning classics, modern works, and hidden gems that celebrate Asia's rich cultural heritage.

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The Tale of Genji

by Murasaki Shikibu

The world’s first novel, in a translation that is “likely to be the definitive edition . . . for many years to come” (The Wall …
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The Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories

by Yasunari Kawabata

A collection of twenty-three stories from one of the most influential figures in modern Japanese literature. Yasunari Kawabata is widely known for his innovative short …
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Snow Country

by Yasunari Kawabata

This masterpiece from the Nobel Prize-winning author and acclaimed writer of Thousand Cranes is a powerful tale of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty …
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The sound of waves

 

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The Lady and the Monk

by Pico Iyer

When Pico Iyer decided to go to Kyoto and live in a monastery, he did so to learn about Zen Buddhism from the inside, to …
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Red Sorghum

by Mo Yan

A story of Northeast Gaomi Township narrated omnisciently by a young man at the end of the cultural revolution.
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Red Azalea

by Anchee Min

A revelatory and disturbing portrait of China, this is Anchee Min’s celebrated memoir of growing up in the last years of Mao’s China. As a …
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An Autobiography

by Mohandas K. Gandhi

Mohandas K. Gandhi is one of the most inspiring figures of our time. In his classic autobiography he recounts the story of his life and …
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The Quiet American

by Graham Greene

The relentless struggle of the Vietminh guerrillas for independence and the futility of the French gestures of resistance become inseparably meshed with the personal and …
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