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 5,931 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 9,451 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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    • 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 47 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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    • 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 2,171 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: 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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    • 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 685 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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    • By: Heather B. Moore
    • Narrated by: Nancy Wu
    • Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,527 ratings
    • When Donaldina Cameron arrives at the Occidental Mission Home for Girls in 1895, she intends to teach sewing skills to young Chinese women immigrants, but, within days, she discovers that the job is much more complicated than perfect stitches and even hems....

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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 1,426 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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    • 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 4,046 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: 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 706 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: 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 139 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 Asian Saga, Book 1.2
    • By: James Clavell
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Series: The Asian Saga
    • Length: 29 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,263 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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    • By: Kim Man-jung, Heinz Insu Fenkl - translator
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Korea's most prized literary masterpiece about a Buddhist journey questioning the illusions of human life is presented in a new translation. The Nine Cloud Dream is an unforgettable tale that explores the meaning of a good life and the virtue of living simply with mindfulness....

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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 3,669 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: 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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    • By: Kelli Estes
    • Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
    • Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,332 ratings
    • The smallest items can hold centuries of secrets. Inara Erickson is exploring her deceased aunt's island estate when she finds an elaborately stitched piece of fabric hidden in the house....

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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 59 ratings
    • When the shah is thrown out of Iran, the nation's turmoil becomes world headlines....

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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 3,970 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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    • A Novel
    • By: Fatima Farheen Mirza
    • Narrated by: Deepti Gupta, Sunil Malhotra
    • Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,186 ratings
    • As an Indian wedding gathers a family back together, parents Rafiq and Layla must reckon with the choices their children have made. There is Hadia, their headstrong eldest daughter, whose marriage is a match of love and not tradition....

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