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 5,877 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 9,442 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: 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 134 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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    • 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 2,067 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 700 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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    • 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 678 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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    • A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel)
    • By: Asha Lemmie
    • Narrated by: Robin Eller, Siho Ellsmore, Katharine Lee McEwan, Jeena Yi, Sarah Skaer, Louis Ozawa
    • Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,661 ratings
    • The child of a married Japanese aristocrat and her African American GI lover, Nori is an outsider from birth. Her grandparents take her in, only to conceal her, fearful of a stain on the royal pedigree that they are desperate to uphold in a changing Japan....

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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 1,342 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 4,006 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 Okada, Ruth Ozeki
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Series: Classics of Asian American Literature
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 05-29-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 186 ratings
    • First published in 1956, No-No Boy was virtually ignored by a public eager to put World War II and the Japanese internment behind them. No-No Boy tells the story of Ichiro Yamada, a fictional version of the real-life "no-no boys"....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Janie Chang
    • Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
    • Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 180 ratings
    • China, 1937: When Japanese bombs begin falling on the city of Nanking, 19-year-old Hu Lian and her classmates at Minghua University are ordered to flee....

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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 3,659 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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    • A Novel
    • By: Yangsze Choo
    • Narrated by: Yangsze Choo
    • Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7,310 ratings
    • This sweeping historical audiobook about a dance hall girl and an orphan boy whose fates entangle over an old Chinese superstition about men who turn into tigers pulls us into a world of servants and masters, age-old superstition and modern idealism, sibling rivalry and forbidden love....

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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 1,521 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 1.2
    • 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 1,192 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: 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 3,967 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: 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 637 ratings
    • Best-selling author Alan Brennert blends history and fiction to showcase Hawaii's dynamic past in this captivating novel....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Juhea Kim
    • Narrated by: Sue Jean Kim, Raymond Lee
    • Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 379 ratings
    • In 1917, deep in the snowy mountains of occupied Korea, an impoverished local hunter on the brink of starvation saves a young Japanese officer from an attacking tiger. In an instant, their fates are connected — and from this encounter unfolds a saga that spans half a century....

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    • By: Que Mai Phan Nguyen
    • Narrated by: Quyen Ngo
    • Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 03-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 214 ratings
    • From the internationally bestselling author of The Mountains Sing, a suspenseful and moving saga about family secrets, hidden trauma, and the overriding power of forgiveness, set during the war and in present-day Việt Nam....

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