Asia | TripFiction

Navigation

Blogs in January 1970

Sightseeing 1st January 1970

Subtle and profound comment on the nature of East meets West.

Tokyo 1st January 1970

Her troubled female protagonist in Tokyo is Grey, haunting the thronging streets of Tokyo in search of an elusive piece of film recording the infamous Nanking massacre of 1937. But did the film ever exist? The past is a...

Vietnam: Rising Dragon 1st January 1970

Vietnam is a rising economy in Asia, capitalism is finding root in a country that still sees itself as Communist. Vibrant cities sit alongside poverty in the country. This book explores what lies beneath, how family values still hold...

Passage to Ararat 1st January 1970

In Passage to Ararat, which received the National Book Award in 1976, Michael J. Arlen goes beyond the portrait of his father, the famous Anglo-Armenian novelist of the 1920s, that he created in Exiles to try to discover what...

Full Tilt 1st January 1970

Shortly after her tenth birthday, Dervla Murphy decided to cycle to India. Almost 20 years later, she set out to achieve her ambition. Her epic journey began during the coldest winter in memory, taking her through Europe, Persia, Afghanistan,...