Books like Euphoria
In 1933 three young anthropologists, one of them modelled on Margaret Mead, work along the Sepik River in New Guinea, and their rivalry and attraction become as consuming as the cultures they have come to study.
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Memoirs of a Geisha
A Kyoto fisherman's daughter sold into the Gion geisha houses in 1929 narrates the long apprenticeship and the long war that together teach her what a woman of the flower-and-willow world is for.
Heart the Lover
Years later, a writer looks back at her final year of college, when she fell in with Sam and Yash, two brilliant best friends from her seventeenth-century literature class, and at the love triangle and the choices after graduation that changed all three lives.
This Earth of Mankind
Minke, a brilliant young Javanese student at a Dutch school in colonial Surabaya in the 1890s, falls for Annelies, daughter of Nyai Ontosoroh, the formidable concubine of a Dutch planter.
The People in the Trees
A scientist studying a remote island tribe discovers that their supposed fountain of youth has a horrifying cost, and his ambition blinds him to the damage he causes.
Writers & Lovers
In the summer of 1997, Casey Peabody, thirty-one, grieving her mother, deep in debt and waiting tables in Massachusetts while she works on the novel she has been writing for six years, finds herself torn between two very different writers.
Water for Elephants
An old man in a nursing home remembers the Depression summer he jumped a train into a second-rate travelling circus and the wife and the elephant he helped steal from it.
Heat and Dust
A young Englishwoman travels to India to find out what happened to her grandfather's first wife, Olivia, who in 1923 left her husband for an Indian prince.
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
In the summer after college, Art Bechstein, the son of a mobster's money man, falls for both a charismatic young man and a woman, in Chabon's debut about desire and the city.
Martha Quest
Martha Quest, a restless, bookish girl on a farm in British Central Africa in the 1930s, leaves for the colonial town to find a life of her own.
The Farming of Bones
Amabelle Désir, a Haitian orphan working as a maid in the Dominican Republic, is in love with Sebastien, a cane cutter, in 1937, as Trujillo's soldiers begin the massacre of Haitians.
Desertion
In 1899 an Englishman, Martin Pearce, stumbles out of the desert into a small town on the East African coast, is nursed back to health by a shopkeeper's family, and falls in love with the shopkeeper's sister.
Rules of Civility
A young woman in Depression-era New York navigates the city's elite hotels and speakeasies, building a life through wit, nerve, and a single evening's lucky encounter.