Historical Fiction?
I am looking for historical fiction based in India, Thailand, China and Japan. Any help would be great. Thanks.
- tudorficfan
Tags: China, Historical Fiction, India, Japan, Thailand
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May 18th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Killing Fields by Christopher Hudson
The killing fields is a story about war and horror, murder and terror but also about hope and friendship. The story emerges in the early 1970s in war torn Cambodia, where the communist Khmer Rouge are trying to overthrow the american backed government of Lon Nol. The american journalist Sydney Schanberg and his cambodian assistant Dith Pran are covering the advance of the Khmer Rouge towards the capital of Phnom Penh. In 1975 when the rebells finally enter the capital and seize power, the lives of the residents change dramatically. The Khmer Rouge want to impose a stoneage-like agriculture communism and for that purpose they force the whole population to live and work on the countryside and besides they try to kill all educated, upper class and critical people.
It is a fantastic book (and film) although it is mostly based on fact. Not sure if that is what you really want (you said fiction)
May 21st, 2009 at 4:32 pm
One book I enjoyed very much is “Creation” by Gore Vidal; starting in Ancient Greece, it recounts a journey from Persia, through India and on to China, taking in the personages of The Buddha, Confucius and Lao Tse.
May 23rd, 2009 at 1:35 am
China:
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Pavilion of Women by Pearl S. Buck
A Floating Life: The Adventure of Li Po: An Historical Novel by Simon Elegant
Bronze Mirror by Jeanne Larsen
Silk Road ny Jeanne Larsen
Green Dragon White Tiger by Motley
Spring Moon; A Novel of China by Bette Bao Lord
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Japan:
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Tale of Murasaki: A novel by Liza Dalby
China:
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan…(her books are great)
The Bonesetters’s Daughter by Amy Tan
The Moon Lady by Amy Tam and Gretchen Schields
Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tam
The Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan
India:
Beneath a Marble Sky by John Shors…the tale of the daughter of the man that built the Taj Mahal
TheFar Pavillions by MM Kaye
The Death of Vishnu: A Novel by Manil Suri
The Twentieth Wife: A novel by Indu Sundaresan
you can also go here:www.historicalromancewriters.com…you can search by author, time period setting, etc.
May 23rd, 2009 at 9:11 am
I agree with debl_20, all very good reads and interesting each.
May 23rd, 2009 at 8:59 pm
China-Anything by Pearl Buck—she lived there and later wrote fiction about China
Path of the Eclipse set in India, China, and Tibet by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Dark of the Sun, set in China by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Shogun by James Clavell and set in feudal Japan
Many books and stories by Rudyard Kipling are set in India, Jungle Book is just one. One of the all time great writers around, and the youngest to win a Nobel prize for literature. He was a great soul—check out all of his poems, novels and essays.