How to find books from or set in different countries – CHINA

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How I Became a North Korean | Krys Lee

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Summary: This is a tale about desperation, about panic, about flight. It is a tale of what people will do to escape from something terrible, something fatal – and how even the good can become corrupted. It is a tale of venality. But most of all it is a tale of hope, sheer determination and love. And love conquers all.

Recommendation: Whichbook provides multiple methods by which you might find a new item to read. Explore this link to play with the software yourself: https://www.whichbook.net/world-map/

Visit each country in turn to discover works you MIGHT find through the Smithton Public Library District (all those titles recommended here ARE available through our system for borrowing).

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Death of a Red Heroine | Qiu Xiaolong

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Summary: A young “national model worker,” renowned for her adherence to the principles of the Communist Party, turns up dead in a Shanghai canal. As Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Special Cases Bureau struggles to trace the hidden threads of her past, he finds himself challenging the very political forces that have guided his life since birth. Chen must tiptoe around his superiors if he wants to get to the bottom of this crime, and risk his career—perhaps even his life—to see justice done.

Recommendation: Whichbook provides multiple methods by which you might find a new item to read. Explore this link to play with the software yourself: https://www.whichbook.net/world-map/

Visit each country in turn to discover works you MIGHT find through the Smithton Public Library District (all those titles recommended here ARE available through our system for borrowing).

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Under Fishbone Clouds | Sam Meekings

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Summary: This beautiful, lyrically-written novel is a deep love story, intense historical reflection, and absorbing family saga with traditional mythological tales interwoven along the way. The often intensely sad events of Yuying and Jinyi’s lives in China’s tumultuous years between 1942 and 2000 are heart-breakingly told and although this is often a depressing story it captures the impact a country’s political history has on an ordinary couple’s lives.

Recommendation: Whichbook provides multiple methods by which you might find a new item to read. Explore this link to play with the software yourself: https://www.whichbook.net/world-map/

Visit each country in turn to discover works you MIGHT find through the Smithton Public Library District (all those titles recommended here ARE available through our system for borrowing).

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Empress Orchid | Anchee Min

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Summary: From the master of the historical novel, Empress Orchid sweeps readers into the splendid heart of the Forbidden City to tell the fascinating story of a young Chinese concubine who becomes china’s last empress. Min introduces the beautiful Tzu Hsi, known as Orchid, and weaves an epic of a country girl who seizes power through seduction, murder, and endless intrigue. When china is threatened by enemies, she alone sees capable of holding her country together. A novel of high drama and lyricism and lavish historical detail, Empress Orchid provides an extraordinary look inside the Forbidden City in its last days of imperial glory and breathes life into one of the most important women in history.

Recommendation: Whichbook provides multiple methods by which you might find a new item to read. Explore this link to play with the software yourself: https://www.whichbook.net/world-map/

Visit each country in turn to discover works you MIGHT find through the Smithton Public Library District (all those titles recommended here ARE available through our system for borrowing).

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The Three-Body Problem | Cixin Liu

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Summary: With the scope of Dune and the commercial action of Independence Day, this near-future trilogy is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience this multiple-award-winning phenomenon from China’s most beloved science fiction author. Set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion. The result is a science fiction masterpiece of enormous scope and vision.

Recommendation: Whichbook provides multiple methods by which you might find a new item to read. Explore this link to play with the software yourself: https://www.whichbook.net/world-map/

Visit each country in turn to discover works you MIGHT find through the Smithton Public Library District (all those titles recommended here ARE available through our system for borrowing).

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