Historical Fiction Asia

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    • A Novel
    • By: Lisa See
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Lim
    • Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,899 ratings
    • Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends who begin working with their village’s all-female diving collective. As the girls take up positions as baby divers, they know they are beginning a life of excitement and responsibility but also danger....

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    • A Novel of the Vietnam War
    • By: Karl Marlantes
    • Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
    • Length: 21 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9,445 ratings
    • In the monsoon season of 1968-69 at a base called Matterhorn, located in the remote mountains of Vietnam, a young and ambitious Marine lieutenant wants to command a company....

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    • By: Lisa See
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Lim, Justin Chien
    • Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,107 ratings
    • Inspired by the true story of a woman physician in 15th-century China, Lady Tan’s Circle of Women is a captivating story of women helping other women and a triumphant reimagining of the life of a woman who was remarkable in the Ming dynasty and would be considered remarkable today.

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    • By: John Allyn, Stephen Turnbull - foreword
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 705 ratings
    • This is the definitive, fascinating account of this unforgettable tale of a band of samurai who defied the Emperor to avenge the disgrace and death of their master....

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    • By: Colin Falconer
    • Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
    • Series: Epic Adventure
    • Length: 14 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 136 ratings
    • From the Storehouse of Winds to the Palace of Myriad Tranquillities, from the Pamirs and Hindu Kush to the legendary Xanadu and the dazzling court of Khubilai Khan, this is romance and adventure on a breathtaking scale....

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    • The Asian Saga, Book 1.1
    • By: James Clavell
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Series: The Asian Saga
    • Length: 24 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,373 ratings
    • After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer have seen—Nippon. Thrust into the closed society that is seventeenth-century Japan, a land where the line between life and death is razor-thin....

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    • A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution
    • By: Ji-li Jiang
    • Narrated by: Christina Moore
    • Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 682 ratings
    • Twelve-year-old Ji-li Jiang has brains, friends, and a bright future. Then Mao Zedong launches China’s infamous Cultural Revolution....

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    • The Epic Novel of the Founding of Hong Kong: The Asian Saga, Book 2
    • By: James Clavell
    • Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
    • Series: The Asian Saga, Book 2
    • Length: 32 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-18-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4,023 ratings
    • The sweeping epic novel of the founding of Hong Kong, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James Clavell....

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    • By: Makiia Lucier
    • Narrated by: Mapuana Makia
    • Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • Hanalei of Tamarind is the cherished daughter of an old island family. But when her father steals a seadragon egg meant for an ailing princess, she is forced into a life of exile. In the years that follow, Hanalei finds solace in studying the majestic seadragons that roam the Nominomi Sea....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Amita Trasi
    • Narrated by: Zehra Jane Nacqvi, Sneha Mathan
    • Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 834 ratings
    • India, 1986: Mukta, a 10-year-old village girl from the lower-caste Yellama cult, has come of age and must fulfill her destiny of becoming a temple prostitute, as her mother and grandmother did....

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    • The Epic Novel of War and Survival
    • By: James Clavell
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Series: The Asian Saga, Book 4
    • Length: 15 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 07-17-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,333 ratings
    • The time is World War II. The place is a brutal prison camp deep in Japanese-occupied territory....

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    • By: Amy Tan
    • Narrated by: Nancy Wu, Joyce Bean, Amy Tan
    • Length: 24 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3,968 ratings
    • New York Times best-selling author of The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan brings us her latest novel: a sweeping, evocative epic of two women's intertwined fates and their search for identity....

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    • By: Soseki Natsume, Aiko Ito - translator, Graeme Wilson - translator
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 21 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 136 ratings
    • I Am a Cat, satirizes the foolishness of upper-middle class Japanese society during the Meiji era. With acerbic wit and sardonic perspective, it follows the whimsical adventures of a world-weary stray kitten who comments on the follies and foibles of the people around him....

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    • The Epic Novel of the Birth of Modern Japan
    • By: James Clavell
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Series: The Asian Saga, Book 3
    • Length: 50 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,647 ratings
    • The dynamic epic novel of political upheaval and societal change in late 1800s Japan....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Rita Chang-Eppig
    • Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
    • Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • For listeners of Outlawed, Piranesi, and The Night Tiger, Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea is a riveting, roaring adventure novel about a legendary Chinese pirate queen, her fight to save her fleet from the forces allied against them, and the dangerous price of power....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Laila Ibrahim
    • Narrated by: Nancy Wu
    • Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,662 ratings
    • From the bestselling author of Yellow Crocus comes a heart-wrenching story about finding strength in a new world. Southern China, 1923. Desperate to secure her future, Mei Ling’s parents arrange a marriage to a widower in California....

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    • By: Takashi Matsuoka
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Series: Samurai Series, Book 1
    • Length: 15 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-03
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 384 ratings
    • In 1861, foreign ships have already steamed into Shimoda Harbor and forced open Japan's doors to the West...

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    • The Asian Saga, Book 6.5
    • By: James Clavell
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Series: The Asian Saga, Book 7
    • Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-16
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • When the shah is thrown out of Iran, the nation's turmoil becomes world headlines....

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    • By: Alan Brennert
    • Narrated by: Ali Ahn
    • Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 03-13-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 638 ratings
    • Best-selling author Alan Brennert blends history and fiction to showcase Hawaii's dynamic past in this captivating novel....

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