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A Dutch clerk in early 1800s Japan navigates trade, love, and betrayal on the artificial island of Dejima, where two civilisations meet and misunderstand each other.
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Sea of Poppies
A young Indian woman is torn from her family by the opium trade and cast onto a ship bound for Mauritius, in the first volume of an epic trilogy.
The Betrothed
Two Lombardy peasants are prevented from marrying by a local tyrant and spend the novel finding each other again across plague, war, and the politics of 17th-century northern Italy.
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 Great Divide
In 1907, as the Panama Canal is being dug, Ada Bunting, sixteen, stows away from Barbados to Panama to earn money for her sister's operation, among the thousands drawn there by the work.
Pachinko
Four generations of a Korean family build lives in Japan, enduring discrimination and sacrifice, connected by stubbornness and the pachinko parlours that sustain them.
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.
Daughter of Fortune
Eliza Sommers, a foundling raised by an English brother and sister in Valparaíso, falls for a poor clerk who leaves for the California gold rush in 1849, and she stows away on a ship to follow him.
The Garden of Evening Mists
Yun Ling Teoh, a judge who survived a Japanese labour camp, goes up to the Cameron Highlands in 1951 to ask Aritomo, once gardener to the Emperor of Japan, to make a garden in memory of her sister.
The Books of Jacob
The 18th-century Polish-Jewish mystic Jacob Frank founds a movement that carries his followers across the borders of empire and faith.
Nostromo
In the South American republic of Costaguana, the San Tomé silver mine becomes the prize in a revolution, and the incorruptible dockworker Nostromo is trusted to hide its silver.
The Far Pavilions
An English officer raised as a Hindu returns to India and falls in love across the divide of empire, religion, and the Afghan wars.
Bring Larks and Heroes
Corporal Phelim Halloran, an Irish marine in the penal colony of New South Wales in the late eighteenth century, loves a convict servant girl and is drawn into a plot by Irish convicts.