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A fifteen-year-old French girl begins a passionate affair with a Chinese man in 1930s Saigon.
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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.
Thousand Cranes
At a tea ceremony held by his late father's mistress, Kikuji is offered a bride, and begins an affair with another of his father's former lovers, Mrs Ota.
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.
The Sorrow of War
A North Vietnamese soldier writes a novel from memories of the American War and lost love.
Strait Is the Gate
Jérôme loves his cousin Alissa from childhood, and she loves him, but her piety and her conviction that love must reach for something higher keep pushing him away.
The Heretic of Soana
A young priest in the mountains above Lake Lugano is sent to deal with a family of outcasts living in sin on the slopes of Monte Generoso, and is undone by the eldest daughter.
The Quiet American
A jaded British journalist in 1950s Vietnam befriends an idealistic American aid worker, not realising the American's quiet mission will cost innocent lives.
Boulder
A lesbian line cook named Boulder agrees to have a child with her partner and watches her desire and identity unravel into brine and rock.
Spring Snow
A young Japanese aristocrat falls in love with the wrong woman in pre-war Tokyo, and the rigid codes of beauty and duty destroy them both.
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.
Women
A down-and-out poet in Los Angeles navigates a series of women, bars, and hangovers in Bukowski's autobiographical novel about surviving desire.
The Things They Carried
A platoon of American soldiers carries physical and emotional weight through the Vietnam War, in stories that blur the line between truth and fiction.