Books like The Night Tiger
In 1930s British Malaya, Ren, an eleven-year-old houseboy, has forty-nine days to find his dead master's missing finger and bury it with him, while Ji Lin, a dance hall girl, comes across a severed finger by chance.
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When We Were Orphans
A detective in 1930s Shanghai investigates his parents' disappearance while the city descends into war, and his memories prove less reliable than he believes.
The Storm We Made
In 1945, near the end of the Japanese occupation of Malaya, Cecily Alcantara watches her three children suffer for a choice she made years before, when she began passing secrets to a Japanese general who promised an Asia for Asians.
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.
The Christie Affair
Nan O'Dea, the mistress of Archie Christie, tells her story of the eleven days in December 1926 when his wife, Agatha Christie, disappeared.
The Lions of Fifth Avenue
In 1913 Laura Lyons lives in an apartment inside the New York Public Library, where her husband is superintendent, and is drawn into a club of radical women. In 1993 her granddaughter Sadie, a curator there, faces a run of thefts of rare books.
The Storyteller
A Peruvian writer in Florence sees a photograph of storytellers in the Amazon and thinks of his old university friend Saúl Zuratas, who became obsessed with the Machiguenga people.
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.
Tai-Pan
A ruthless trader builds a dynasty in nineteenth-century Hong Kong, clawing power from the chaos of the opium wars and the birth of the colony.
The Prospector
Alexis grows up on Mauritius at the end of the nineteenth century, and when his family is ruined he spends years searching for a pirate's treasure on the island of Rodrigues.
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Hugo Cabret, an orphan secretly keeping the clocks running in a Paris train station in 1931, tries to repair the broken automaton his father left him, and is drawn into the mystery of a bitter old toy seller, in a novel told in words and pictures.
The House of Doors
In 1921 Somerset Maugham, ill and in debt, stays with an old friend and his wife Lesley in Penang, and Lesley tells him about her past, including her part in Sun Yat-sen's revolution and a scandalous murder trial that gripped the colony.
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.