Asian Literature
The vibrant cultures, philosophies and daily rhythms of Asia come alive through memoirs, cultural guides, and soul-searching narratives. Here you'll find intimate portraits of modern life alongside timeless wisdom, from Korean street food cravings to Japanese existentialism to Thai social customs.
Asian Literature Book Summaries
Human Acts
Amid South Korea's 1980 uprising, a boy tends the bodies of the slain. The dead speak.
Human Acts
Amid South Korea's 1980 uprising, a boy tends the bodies of the slain. The dead speak.
Heaven
Two outcasts pass secret notes in class, building a hidden world that feels like the only salvation.
Heaven
Two outcasts pass secret notes in class, building a hidden world that feels like the only salvation.
Reef
A servant boy masters cooking in a Sri Lankan beach house on the brink of war.
Reef
A servant boy masters cooking in a Sri Lankan beach house on the brink of war.
If I Had Your Face
In Seoul's brutal beauty economy, a mute stylist, a hostess, and two others fight for survival.
If I Had Your Face
In Seoul's brutal beauty economy, a mute stylist, a hostess, and two others fight for survival.
I Want To Die but I Want To Eat Tteokpokki 2
A Korean twentysomething returns to therapy, still certain she looks wrong, still pushing love away.
I Want To Die but I Want To Eat Tteokpokki 2
A Korean twentysomething returns to therapy, still certain she looks wrong, still pushing love away.
Docile
Top of her class, then Princeton, then a locked psych ward. The way out was paint.
Docile
Top of her class, then Princeton, then a locked psych ward. The way out was paint.
