Sounds of the River: A Young Man's University Days in Beijing
8 best books like Sounds of the River: A Young Man's University Days in Beijing (Da Chen): The Leopard, The Velvet Room, Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China, Home is a Roof Over a Pig: An American Family's Journey in China, The Search for God at Harvard, The Sari Shop, A Hologram for the King, The Wander Year: One Couple's Journey Around the World
| Author | Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa |
| ISBN | 0679731210 |
The Leopard is a story of a decadent and dying aristocracy threatened by the forces of revolution and democracy. Set against the political upheavals of Italy in the 1860s, it focuses on Don Fabrizio, a Sicilian prince of immense sensual appetites, wealth, and great personal magnetism. Around this...
| Author | Zilpha Keatley Snyder |
| ISBN | 0595321836 |
Robin was always wandering off (her mother's words) to get away from the confusion she felt inside her. It was not until Robin's father found a permanent job at the McCurdy ranch, after three years as a migrant worker, that Robin had a place to wander to. As time went by the Velvet Room became more and more...
Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China
| Author | John Pomfret |
| ISBN | 0805076158 |
As one the first American students admitted to China after the communist revolution, John Pomfret was exposed to a country still emerging from the twin tragedies of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. Crammed into a dorm room with seven Chinese men, Pomfret contended with all manner...
| Author | Aminta Arrington |
| ISBN | 1590208994 |
When all-American Aminta Arrington moves from suburban Georgia to a small town in China, she doesn't go alone. Her army husband and three young children, including an adopted Chinese daughter, uproot themselves too. Aminta hopes to understand the country with its long civilization, ancient philosophy,...
| Author | Ari Goldman |
| ISBN | 0345377060 |
In 1985 Ari L. Goldman took a year’s leave from his job as a religion reporter for The New York Times and enrolled in Harvard Divinity School. What began as a project to deepen his knowledge of the world’s sacred beliefs turned out to be an extraordinary journey of spiritual illumination, one in which...
Ramchand, a tired shop assistant in Sevak Sari House in Amritsar, spends his days patiently showing yards of fabric to the women of "status families" and to the giggling girls who dream of dressing up in silk but can only afford cotton. When Ramchand is sent to show his wares to a wealthy family preparing...
In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter’s college tuition, and finally do something great. In A Hologram for the King, Dave Eggers takes us around the world to show...
The Wander Year: One Couple's Journey Around the World
A collection of humorous and moving encounters with a sublime world and the extraordinary souls who fill it.
Bestselling author Mike McIntyre (The Kindness of Strangers) and his longtime girlfriend, Andrea, are itching for a break from their routines. So they rent out their California home--dog...
