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- Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa), Shanghai
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
A clever and compelling novel about illicit love and raw passion with unexpected twists and poignant depth.Manfred Morse has just hit fifty, and also the wall. Life seems empty. His marriage is long since over, his leathery old father...
- Location(s): China, Los Angeles, Shanghai
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s onwards
Shanghai, 1937. Pearl and May are two sisters from a bourgeois family. Though their personalities are very different – Pearl is a Dragon sign, strong and stubborn, while May is a true Sheep, adorable and placid – they are...
- Location(s): Shanghai
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2
Shanghai Love is a gripping novel about the unlikely love story that develops between a Chinese herbalist and a Jewish refugee in Shanghai during World War II. Peilin is betrothed to Kwan Yao, the only son of a wealthy...
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 19th Century
Lily is the daughter of a humble farmer, and to her family she is just another expensive mouth to feed. Then the local matchmaker delivers startling news: if Lily’s feet are bound properly, they will be flawless. In nineteenth-century...
- Location(s): China, United States (USA)
- Era(s): Modern
Full of unforgettable figures and an unrelenting spirit of adventure. Strange Stones is a far-ranging. thought-provoking collection of Peter Hessler’s best reportage-a dazzling display of the powerful storytelling. shrewd cultural insight. and warm sense of humor that are the...
- Location(s): China, Hong Kong
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1850s
It is the early 19th century, when European traders and adventurers first began to penetrate the forbidding Chinese mainland. And it is in this exciting time and exotic place that a giant of an Englishman, Dirk Straun, sets out...
- Location(s): Beijing (Peking)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
Longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize and a modern Chinese classic with over one million copies sold. Sisters Tiao and Fan grew up in the shadow of the Cultural Revolution where they witnessed ritual humiliation and suffering. They...
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Turn of 21st Century
The Dark Road is an angrier, more openly confrontational novel than its predecessors (Red Dust and Beijing Coma). Set in the river towns and vast waste sites that line the banks of the Yangtze in Guangdong province, it tackles...
- Location(s): Nanjing (Nanking), Tokyo
- Genre(s): Crime, Suspense
- Era(s): 1937 and 1990
Grey Hutchins is in pursuit of an obsession. She is searching for a piece of film taken during the infamous Nanking massacre of 1937. Some say it never existed. Grey is certain that it does, and that it lies...
- Location(s): Hong Kong
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Set in present-day Hong Kong, The Expatriates follows the lives of three women. An unspeakable tragedy leaves twenty-something Mercy with a crippling personal inertia, and Margaret, a mother of three, numb and unable to heal. In the same small expatriate community,...
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