Query: Novels set in Asia about writers but not biographical
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
The Moscoviad
The Last Station (novel)
Hi no Sakana
The Bonesetter's Daughter
Message from Nam
Avenue of Mysteries
The Quiet American
Death by Water (novel)
The Time: Night
Claudius Bombarnac
Great House (novel)
Evidence from documents: The Moscoviad: The Ukrainian poet Otto von F. wakes up in his Moscow dormitory room. He comes down to take a shower in the basement where he makes love to an unknown Malagasy girl. Returning from the shower to his room, he discovers his three older friends (Yura Holitsyn, Arnold Horobets and Boris Roitman) who talk him into going to a disreputable bar with them. At the bar (bar-na-Fonvizina), the four friends consume a large quantity of low-quality beer. Otto pronounces a speech that calls for Ukraine's separation from Russia, to everyone's applause.
The Last Station (novel): It is the story of the final year in the life of Leo Tolstoy, told from multiple viewpoints, including Tolstoy's young secretary, Valentin Bulgakov, his wife, Sophia Tolstaya, his daughter Sasha, his publisher and close friend, Vladimir Chertkov, and his doctor, Dushan Makovitsky.
Hi no Sakana: about writers: Shozo Murata is an elderly author who is living in Hiroshima in a historical port town that used to be part of the Kitamaebune trade route. He lives alone with only a red goldfish for a companion. One day, he receives a visit from Tochiko Orimi, a young woman from the publishing firm in Tokyo.
Novels set in Asia: Shozo Murata is an elderly author who is living in Hiroshima in a historical port town that used to be part of the Kitamaebune trade route.
but not biographical: The story describes the interactions between an elderly author and a young staffer from a publishing company as they collaborate on a book cover design for the author's latest novel.
The Bonesetter's Daughter: '''''The Bonesetter's Daughter''''', published in 2001, is Amy Tan's fourth novel. Like much of Tan's work, this book deals with the relationship between an American-born Chinese woman and her immigrant mother.
Message from Nam: '''''Message From Nam''''' is a romantic novel, written by American Danielle Steel and published by Dell Publishing in October 1990. It is Steel's 26th novel.
The novel follows Paxton Andrews, who is stationed in Vietnam as a journalist during the Vietnam War, focusing on the men she encounters and how her life and the lives of the people she encounters are changed forever.
Avenue of Mysteries: Avenue of Mysteries''''' is a 2015 novel by American author John Irving, his 14th novel
The Quiet American: about writers but not biographical: Thomas Fowler is a British journalist in his fifties who has covered the French war in Vietnam for more than two years.
Novels set in Asia: Fowler has a live-in lover, Phuong, who is only 20 years old and was previously a dancer at The Arc-en-Ciel (Rainbow) on Jaccareo Road, in Cholon.
Death by Water (novel): The novel takes place partially in Tokyo but is primarily set in the forests of Shikoku and Kogito Choko's family home located in his hometown village in Shikoku. As a child in World War II, Kogito watched his father drown in a river during World War II. He returns to Shikoku in search of a red leather case which he believes contains documents that will answer the mysteries behind his father's life and death. He plans to use these documents to form the base of his new novel, which will be his final work.
The Time: Night: Novels set in Asia: ''The Time: Night'' follows the struggles of the matriarchal Anna Andrianovna as she holds together an emotionally unstable and financially decrepit family in early post soviet Russia.
about writers: The protagonist, Anna Andrianovna, takes great pride in identifying herself as a storyteller and poet.
Claudius Bombarnac: '''''Claudius Bombarnac''''' (, 1893) is an adventure novel written by Jules Verne.
Claudius Bombarnac, a reporter is assigned by the ''Twentieth Century'' to cover the travels of the Grand Transasiatic Railway which runs between ''Uzun Ada'', a harbour on the eastern coast of the Caspian Sea, and Peking, China.
Great House (novel): about writers: has been writing at the desk she inherited from a young Chilean poet who disappeared at the hands of Pinochet’s secret police;
but not biographical: Linking these stories is a desk of many drawers that exerts a power over those who possess it or have given it away.