Tan Twan Eng's The Garden of Evening Mists is a historical novel set in postwar Malaya that links the memory of war with the making of a garden. As the grieving protagonist learns from a Japanese gardener, the novel quietly explores memory, beauty, and forgiveness.

A serene historical novel that revisits the wounds of war through the shape of a garden.

Shin Kyung-sook's Please Look After Mom is a novel about a family searching for a mother who disappears at Seoul Station, and about motherhood, regret, and the gaps in memory. As the family members' perspectives overlap, the mother's overlooked life gradually comes into view.

Each family voice gradually illuminates the life of the missing mother.

Bi Feiyu's Three Sisters is a novel that follows three sisters as they seek dignity and their own paths amid the social changes from rural China to city life. Through their lives, it portrays the pressures that constrain women's choices and the resilience that survives within them.

Through the three sisters' journeys, the novel looks at a changing China and the lives of women within it.

Set in a Chinese riverside town, the novel follows tangled relationships, buried guilt, and a search for redemption. As private secrets surface, the clash between individual fate and social contradiction comes into view.

Buried guilt and secrets slowly spread through a town by the river.

A narrator reminiscent of the author, Miguel Syjuco, follows the death of the exiled writer Crispin Salvador and the disappearance of his manuscript into a maze where family history, national history, and literary history collide. Blending political satire with metafiction, the novel traces a story of memory and identity shaped by migration and return.

As the search for a missing manuscript unfolds, the memories of a country and a family rise in overlapping layers.

Set on the Inner Mongolian grasslands during the Cultural Revolution, the novel follows a Beijing intellectual drawn into nomadic life and the world of wolves, where ecological balance collides with human development. It combines the energy of an adventure story with a warning about the damage brought by modernization.

The grassland survives through fear, respect, and the wisdom of living with the land rather than against it.