5 Great Novels About “East-Meets-West” — From the Western Perspective

I have a few confessions to make. First, I’m a big fan of novels with an East-meets-West theme. Second, this is for excellent reasons — I’m from the West (USA) married to someone from the East (Malaysia). Third, try as I might, I’ll never be an Asian; I’ll always be the outsider looking in.

These are my 5 favorite novels of Asia from the Western perspective. They are not about Western powers but Western people living amid various cultures of Asia, often caught up in circumstances beyond their control.

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https://medium.com/books-are-our-superpower/5-great-novels-about-east-meets-west-from-the-western-perspective-689c7ec74eba?sk=e470249d2eedaab692eea774cd01cc3a