[loO4la]

a couple i read a while ago & highly recommend are...

*out* by natsuo kirino

*battle royale* by koushun takami

*snakes & earrings* by hitomi kanehara

*samurai's garden* by gail tsukiyama


any others?

[*untinnu*]

ok. . don't know who the authors are, but here's a couple that i know and have read. .

clay marble
joy luck club

[neferteenie]

^Joy Luck Club is by Amy Tan.

I like the books that Amy Tan writes.

If you want to read a memoir, On Gold Mountain by Lisa See is good. At least, I liked it.

Umm...I'll be back, if I think of more. xD

[Delster]

Salt Fish Girl by Larissa Lai
I just finished doing this for my Contemporary Literature class; I highly enjoyed the book and am doing my reasearch paper on it.

[Sky's Crying]

Haha aw, I was about to mention The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.

Well, I'm sure this has been said zillions of times but Battle Royale by Koushun Takami is a great read. If you want a really light read go for Socrates in Love by Kyoichi Katayama. It's the english translation of the novel Sekai No Chushin de Ai Wo Sakebu. I bought mine online off of Barnes and Nobles' online site.

[vanny_09]

Chinese Cinderella.... that a really good book...^^

[_ambrosia]

You know the movie The Suicide Club/Suicide Circle, did it originate from a book also?

[jacinda]

The Rape of Nanjing by Iris Chang. Pretty famous and pretty important in getting recognition for the massacres that occured in WWII. She wrote a couple other books too.

If you're talking about actual fiction books, I know quite a few Chinese ones, but...don't know if you'd be interested.

[loO4la]

for those that are interested...i highly recommend...

*the tattoo murder case* by akimitsu takagi.



almost finished reading it...very, very good book.

[a_lot_dumb]

The Bridegroom - Ha Jin
War Trash - Ha Jin
Mao's Last Dancer - ...

[Aziraphale]

though, i am particularly interested in japanese books by japanese authors.

Kazuo Ishiguro
- A Pale View of the Hills
- An Artist of the Floating World

It's difficult to go wrong with Ishiguro.

[Blu_Velvet_Sea]

Someone on soompi recommended recently this book, and I'm currently reading it right now

It's called 'Norwegian Wood' by Haruki Murakami'

[loO4la]

Someone on soompi recommended recently this book, and I'm currently reading it right now

It's called 'Norwegian Wood' by Haruki Murakami'

i've read it...& out of all the murakami books i've read (norwegian wood, wild sheep chase, wind-up bird chronicle, parts of kafka on the shore...), i'd say that was my favorite...although i didn't entirely enjoy it.

[melkimx]

i just finished "midnight at the dragon cafe" by judy fong bates, about a chinese family who moves to canada. it won some kind of award. it was decent, a quick read. i tend to look for award winners because there are just too many books out there.

some other books by asian american and asian authors (excluding the obvious -- murakami, amy tan, kazuo ishiguro, chang rae lee):

- snow country, yasunari kawabata
- out, natsuo kirino (won some kind of mystery award in japan, very twisted)
- waiting, ha jin (won the national book award)
- a single shard, linda sue park (won the newbery award! yes, it's a kid's book, but really touching)
- shanghai baby (pretty cover, boring read -- lesson learned; pay attention to that cliche)

asian american authors i keep meaning to read but haven't include lisa see and gish jen. don't know. anchee min, jung chang write about that chinese communist stuff. helie lee is korean american and writes about her experiences. wow, i'm on a roll.

[clride]

Good read.

[petit_charat]

Koji Suzuki, the writer of 'The ring', 'Spiral' and 'Loop'. pretty freaky stuff but really good.

Laura Joh Rowland (japanese/korean author) writes this series based on San Ichiro, a detective in samurai Japan times. good read, highly recommended.

i got Kafka on the shore from the library..but have nto read it yet. i head Murakami is a very talented writer though...

[wish4or]

um.. jimmy lin writes a few books. i heard they were reallly good. thats why a lot of his works has been turn into series and movies lately.

[miika]

- out, natsuo kirino (won some kind of mystery award in japan, very twisted)

I highly recommend this if you're into dark / twisted stuff. It's so cleverly plotted out and written. Definately one of the most original plots ever. Every character is nicely developed and it just flows so smoothly. There's a twist in every chapter so you'll never be bored. One of my fav. books of all time<3



PLOT: Masako Katori and her coworkers Yoshie, Kuniko, and Yayoi all work the night shift at a boxed lunch factory in the Tokyo suburbs. Each of the women has disagreeable elements in her home life from which she longs to escape (unresponsive or unappreciative families, abusive spouses, overextended credit lines, etc.). When Yayoi snaps one night and strangles her good-for-nothing husband Kenji, Masako and the others must dispose of the body. Led by Masako, the women engage in increasingly grisly business to liberate themselves, not only from evidence of their crime, but from the social and financial burdens that have been suffocating them. Just as things start to go right, everything starts to go wrong: at least two of the women commit careless, lazy mistakes that betray and endanger the others, and Masako must find a safe way out of the danger that threatens to destroy her.

[Manyhx3]

Ties that bind, ties that breaks - Lensey Namioka
Chinese Cinderella - Adelina Yen Mah
the hundred secret senses - amy tan

^^