Query: Novels set in Asia about writers but not Autobiographical.
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
Mitla Pass (novel)
The Quiet American
The Last Station (novel)
Death by Water (novel)
The Bonesetter's Daughter
Talkative Man
One Morning Like a Bird
Hi no Sakana
Less (novel)
Claudius Bombarnac
Evidence from documents: Mitla Pass (novel): Gideon Zadok is an American author who is to follow an airborne team to secure the Mitla Pass during the Suez Crisis and thereby becomes involved in the Mitla incident when Colonel Zechariah (whose real world counterpart is Ariel Sharon) decides to capture it despite other orders.
The Quiet American: Novels set in Asia: The novel implicitly questions the foundations of growing American involvement in Vietnam in the 1950s, exploring the subject through links among its three main characters – Fowler, Pyle and Phuong.
about writers: Thomas Fowler is a British journalist in his fifties who has covered the French war in Vietnam for more than two years.
The Last Station (novel): '''''The Last Station''''' is a novel by Jay Parini that was first published in 1990. 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.
Death by Water (novel): Novels set in Asia about writers but not Autobiographical.: is a 2009 novel by Kenzaburō Ōe. It was published in hardcover by Kodansha on 15 December 2009. It was published in paperback in 2012. An English translation by Deborah Boliver Boehm was published in 2015. The novel is the fifth in a series with the main character of Kogito Choko, who can be considered Ōe's literary alter ego
Novels set in Asia about: he novel was longlisted for the 2016 Man Booker International Prize.
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
The Bonesetter's Daughter: about writers but not Autobiographical.: Ruth is a self-sufficient woman who makes her living as a ghostwriter for self-help books.
Novels set in Asia: This story within a story describes Lu Ling's early life in a small Chinese village called Immortal Heart.
Talkative Man: The novel is a bit short by Narayan's standards but provides the same level of enjoyment one experiences with his other writings.
One Morning Like a Bird: Yuji Takano is a writer in 1940s Tokyo. The story focuses on Takano's exploration and discovery of "Western" culture, exemplified in the meetings of the "club" which he forms with his French-speaking friends.
Hi no Sakana: Novels set in Asia: The novel is written as a collection of letters between the two.
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.
about writers: 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.
not Autobiographical.: is a Japanese novel
Less (novel): Novels set in Asia about writers: he travels to Japan to write as a food critic.
but not Autobiographical.: is a 2017 satirical comedy novel
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. Accompanying him on this journey is an interesting collection of characters, including one who is trying to beat the round the world record and another who is a stowaway. Claudius hopes one of them will become the hero of his piece, so his story won't be just a boring travelogue.