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10 best books like The Commoner (John Burnham Schwartz): Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan, Kastel Awan Burung Gereja, The Teahouse Fire, Breaking the Tongue, Dream of the Walled City, The Painter From Shanghai, Mr. Lincoln's Wars: A Novel in Thirteen Stories, One Morning Like A Bird, The Scent of Sake, The Printmaker's Daughter

Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan
AuthorBruce Feiler
ISBN0060577207
Learning to Bow has been heralded as one of the funniest, liveliest, and most insightful books ever written about the clash of cultures between America and Japan. With warmth and candor, Bruce Feiler recounts the year he spent as a teacher in a small rural town. Beginning with a ritual outdoor bath and...
Kastel Awan Burung Gereja
AuthorTakashi Matsuoka
ISBN9793269278
Pengetahuan bisa menghambat.
Ketidaktahuan justru membebaskan.
Tahu kapan untuk tahu dan kapan untuk tak tahu,sama pentingnya dengan pedang yang tajam.
Suzume-no-Kumo (1434)

Apakah kemampuan mengetahui masa depan bisa menguntungkan, atau justru membawa malapetaka?...
The Teahouse Fire
AuthorEllis Avery
ISBN1594489300
"Like attending seasons of elegant tea parties—each one resplendent with character and drama. Delicious.”—Maxine Hong Kingston

The story of two women whose lives intersect in late-nineteenth-century Japan, The Teahouse Fire is also a portrait of one of the most fascinating places...
Breaking the Tongue
AuthorVyvyane Loh
ISBN0393326543
This brilliant novel chronicles the fall of Singapore to the Japanese in World War II. Central to the story is one Chinese family: Claude, raised to be more British than the British and ashamed of his own heritage; his father, Humphrey, whose Anglophilia blinds him to possible defeat and his wife's dalliances;...
Dream of the Walled City
AuthorLisa Huang Fleischman
ISBN0671042297
Marking the debut of a stunning new literary talent, Lisa Huang Fleischman's extraordinary saga -- inspired by her grandmother's life as an early feminist, political activist, and friend of Mao Zedong -- is a masterpiece about one clever and resourceful woman, growing up amidst the turmoil of twentieth-century...
The Painter From Shanghai
AuthorJennifer Cody Epstein
ISBN0393065286
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Pan Yuliang was a girl with no dreams. Her parents were taken from her at a young age, then her uncle sold her into prostitution; it was enough for many years just to cope and survive. One day, fate places a kind gentleman
in her path, and she begins to...
Mr. Lincoln's Wars: A Novel in Thirteen Stories
AuthorAdam Braver
Mr. Lincoln's Wars marks the emergence of a remarkably gifted writer. In this wildly inventive, highly ambitious collection, Adam Braver explores Abraham Lincoln's inner life and personal turmoils -- while also reflecting on the indelible impact Lincoln had on the nation during the last year of...
One Morning Like A Bird
AuthorAndrew Miller
ISBN0340825146
Description: 1940. Tokyo. Japan is at war with China, and Yuji Takano is clinging to the life he has made for himself as a young poet - the company of his friends, the monthly meetings of the French Club at Monsieur Feneon's house, the days of writing and contemplation made possible by an allowance from...
The Scent of Sake
AuthorJoyce Lebra
ISBN0061662372
She was taught to submit, to obey . . . but she dreamed of an empire.

The sole heir to the House of Omura, a venerable family of Kobe sake brewers, nineteen-year-old Rie hears but cannot heed her mother's advice: that in nineteenth-century Japan, a woman must "kill the self" or her life will be too...
The Printmaker's Daughter
AuthorKatherine Govier
ISBN0062000365
A lost voice of old Japan reclaims her rightful place inhistory in this breathtaking work of imagination and scholarship from award-winning and internationally acclaimedauthor Katherine Govier. In the evocative taleof 19th century Tokyo, The Printmaker’sDaughter  delivers an enthrallingtale...
Mistress of the Sun
AuthorSandra Gulland
The author of the internationally acclaimed Josephine B. trilogy presents a new, irresistible historical novel, based on the life of Louise de la Vallière, who, against all odds, became the most beloved consort of France's Louis XIV, the charismatic Sun King.

Set against the magnificent...
Hannah's Winter
AuthorKierin Meehan
ISBN0141000449
Hannah would much rather be back in Australia, starting high school with her friends. But Japan turns out to be nothing like she d imagined, and when Hannah and her new friend Miki find an ancient message in the stationery shop, they are drawn into solving a mysterious riddle. Why do the beans go berserk...
Petals from the Sky
AuthorMingmei Yip
When twenty-year old Meng Ning declares that she wants to be a Buddhist nun, her mother is aghast. In her eyes, a nun's life means only deprivation - "no freedom, no love, no meat." But to Meng Ning it means the chance to control her own destiny, and to live in an oasis of music, art, and poetry far from her parents'...
The Typist
AuthorMichael Knight
Rife with the crisp dialogue, complex characters, and stunning economy of language for which Michael Knight's previous work has been praised, The Typist chronicles the early, halting rehabilitation of the grisly Pacific theater of the Second World War-specifically occupied Japan, where Western...
Alice in Exile
AuthorPiers Paul Read
ISBN0312325789
Alice in Exile is Piers Paul Read's triumphant return to the fiction for which he is widely praised: romantic, dramatic, and rich with detail. It features Alice Fry--an independent woman in a world ruled by men--and the two men who love her. It is 1913 when Alice meets Edward Cobb, the eligible son of a...
The Snow Fox
AuthorSusan Fromberg Schaeffer
ISBN0393326527
One thousand years ago, chaos loosed itself upon Japan, upending an era in which the arts flourished. At the dawn of 250 years of civil war, in the opulent court of Lord Norimasa, the beautiful but cruel poet Lady Utsu wages war with men's hearts and holds the fearsome lord and his devoted samurai Matsuhito...
American Fuji
AuthorSara Backer
ISBN0425230090
Japan itself is the comic hero of this sweet and funny, sad and inspiring novel.

Gaby Stanton, an American professor living in Japan, has lost her job teaching English at Shizuyama University. (No one will tell her exactly why.) Alex Thorn, an American psychologist, is mourning his son, a Shizuyama...
The Pure Land
AuthorAlan Spence
ISBN1841959596
The year is 1858. Thomas Glover is a restless young man with dreams of escaping Aberdeen. Abandoning his childhood sweetheart, he takes a posting as a trader in Japan. Within ten years he amasses a great fortune, learns the ways of the samurai and helps overthrow the Shogun - a rapid rise from lowly shipping...
Plum Wine
AuthorAngela Davis-Gardner
ISBN0385340834
Bottles of homemade plum wine link two worlds, two eras, and two lives through the eyes of Barbara Jefferson, a young American teaching at a Tokyo university. When her surrogate mother, Michi, dies, Barbara inherits an extraordinary gift: a tansu chest filled with bottles of homemade plum wine wrapped...
The Moon Pearl
AuthorRuthanne Lum McCunn
ISBN0807083496
In the tradition of Thousand Pieces of Gold comes The Moon Pearl, the story of Rooster, Shadow, and Mei Ju, who become fast friends while members of a girls’ house, where young daughters are taught to become daughters-in-law. These girls, however, want neither to marry nor become nuns (the only options...
Lady of the Butterflies
AuthorFiona Mountain
ISBN0399156364
They say I'm mad and perhaps it's true.
It is well known that lust brings madness and desperation and ruin. But upon my oath, I never meant any harm. All I wanted was to be happy, to love and to be loved in return, and for my life to count for something.
That is not madness, is it?

So begins the...
The Way of the Traitor
AuthorLaura Joh Rowland
ISBN0061010901
A volatile, corrupt city threatened by toreign invasion and ru by an iron-fisted government, Nagasaki is the last place Sano Ichiro wants to be, Unfortunately, the shogun's Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People has been banished there by a wicked adversary in the shogun's...
The Ginseng Hunter
AuthorJeff Talarigo
ISBN0385517394
Set at the turn of the twenty-first century in China along the Tumen River, which separates northeast China and North Korea, The Ginseng Hunter is an unforgettable portrait of life along a fragile border.

A Chinese ginseng hunter lives alone in the valley and spends his days up in the mountains...
Gardens of Water
AuthorAlan Drew
ISBN1400066875
Powerful, emotional, and beautifully written, Alan Drew’s stunning first novel brings to life two unforgettable families–one Kurdish, one American–and the sacrifice and love that bind them together.

In a small town outside Istanbul, Sinan Basioglu, a devout Muslim, and his wife,...
Charity Girl
AuthorMichael Lowenthal
ISBN0618546294
Charity Girl examines one of the darkest periods in our history, when patriotic fervor and fear led to devastating consequences. During World War I, the U.S. government went on a moral and medical campaign, quarantining and incarcerating young women who were thought to have venereal diseases. They...
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