The Makioka Sisters
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
A classic Japanese novel about a merchant family whose fortunes and marriage prospects are reshaped by the economic modernization of Osaka, making the pressures of rapid growth on family life vividly personal.
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The White Tiger
Aravind Adiga · 2008
A darkly comic Indian novel that shows how the country's economic boom fractures family ties and community loyalties as its narrator claws his way from village poverty to urban wealth.
The Sea and Poison
Shusaku Endo · 1972
A spare, devastating novel about a Japanese doctor's complicity in wartime vivisection and the quiet moral aftershocks that persist long after the war ends.
The Story of the Stone
Cao Xueqin · 1973
This great Chinese family chronicle traces the decline of a grand household whose fortunes are tied to both rural estates and urban official life, making movement between them a force that remakes identity.
The Museum of Innocence
Orhan Pamuk · 2009
Kemal's obsessive love for Füsun unfolds across decades of Istanbul's Westernising elite, making a woman's constrained choices the emotional centre of a changing society.
A Suitable Boy
Vikram Seth · 1993
This vast, warm-hearted Indian novel follows a mother's search for a husband for her daughter, and in doing so weighs inherited family duty against the new freedoms and ambitions of a changing urban India.
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