If you liked
Memoirs
of a Geisha
by
Arthur Golden,
try these books:
Memoirs
of a Geisha follows 9 year-old Chiyo,
sold
with her sister
into slavery by their father after their
mother's death, as
she becomes Sayuri, the beautiful
geisha.
The library owns all of the titles listed below, but
they might be checked out. Check the
computer catalog to see if they are available.
FIC BIRD Sarah
Bird, The Yokota Officers Club
A college student returns home to a
FIC BURDETT John Burdett,
FIC CHIU Hsiao-lung Ch'iu,
Death of a Red Heroine
A poet assigned by the government to be a detective
investigates the death of a National Model Worker.
FIC COTTERILL Colin Cotterill, The Coroner’s Lunch
A Laotian coroner deals with the sudden death of an
official’s wife and the appearance of three corpses that may cause an incident
with
FIC DAI Sijie Dai, Balzac and the Little Chinese
Seamstress
Two boys sent to a reeducation camp discover a cache of
Western classics translated into Chinese.
FIC DUONG Thu Huong Duong,
Memories of a Pure Spring
A Vietnamese singer and her composer husband experience
persecution after the Communist victory.
FIC GHOSH Amitav Ghosh, The Hungry Tide
The lives of three people from different worlds collide in
the lush and dangerous Sundarban islands in the
FIC GODSHALK C.S. Godshalk, Kalimantaan
A remarkable tale of adventure,
ambition, loss and love in 19th century
FIC HOSSEINI Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
A successful writer returns to his homeland of
FIC JIN Ha Jin, Waiting
Once a year for 18 years, a doctor goes before the court
seeking a divorce from his peasant wife so he can marry his city-bred
girlfriend.
FIC LANCHESTER John Lanchester,
Fragrant Harbor
From the 1930s to present, the lives of English and Chinese
residents of
FIC LEE Marie Myung-Ok
Lee, Somebody’s Daughter
A Korean girl adopted by Scandinavian-Americans goes to
FIC MANICKA Rani Manicka, The Rice Mother
A girl married to a much older man makes the best of things
but is haunted by a prophecy of heartbreak.
FIC MASON Daniel
Philippe Mason, The Piano Tuner
In 1886, an Englishman travels to a remote outpost in
FIC MIN Anchee Min, Ermpress
Orchid
A girl chosen to be the Emperor’s fourth wife is caught in
the upheaval of foreign invasion and domestic intrigue
FIC MIN Anchee Min, Becoming Madame Mao
The unwanted daughter of a concubine flees her family life,
first to a provincial opera troupe, then to Shanghai and fame as an actress,
and finally to Yenan, where she falls in love with
Mao Zedong.
FIC MISTRY Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
Five people of different backgrounds find their lives
becoming intertwined during the turbulent days of
FIC ONDAATJE Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost
A forensic anthropologist seeks the source of the organized
campaigns of murder engulfing
FIC
A divorced woman brings her twin children home to a small
village where a tragedy unfolds.
FIC SCOTT Joanna C. Scott, The
Lucky Gourd Shop
Mi Sook, a South Korean orphan,
endures hardships and violence throughout her life.
FIC STRAUSS Darin Strauss, Chang & Eng
This fictionalized account tells of the real-life story of
conjoined twins born in
FIC WALBERT Kate Walbert, The Gardens of
A quiet novel that tells of vanishing women and their loves,
fear filled children, and men damaged by war.
Book summaries courtesy of:
http://www.northbrook.info/lib_fiction_asia.php
http://www.multcolib.org/books/lists/memsgeisha.html
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