I... need a new book!

[BookBeauty]

I have thoroughly enjoyed the works of:

Tolstoy, Gogol, Vladimir, Dostoevsky, Hugo, Zola, Bronte, Lewis, Milton, Dante, Walpole, Stevenson, Shelley, and so on forth.. etc.

But I'd like to try something new and different, something that is easily read.. perhaps a classic from the east?..like.. Asia or something.. :P

Thank you!

[andave_ya]

How about something by Rabindranath Tagore, from India? The Gitanjali is a gorgeous collection of poems, and of his novels Home and the World, the only one I've read, is mind-boggling; it talks about the place of woman in an older India. Lots of philosophy in that one.

[Scheherazade]

A Suitable Boy. It is fun, interesting and worthwhile.

[mayneverhave]

I might suggest works by Nobel Prize (non-Western) winners like J.M. Coetzee, V.S. Naipaul, or Wole Soyinka.

[Uberzensch]

How about Snow by Orhan Pamuk?

[Wilde woman]

But I'd like to try something new and different, something that is easily read.. perhaps a classic from the east?..like.. Asia or something.. :P

You could try the Dream of the Red Chamber, one of the four Classical novels from Chinese history. It has a lot of intertwined story lines but its central one is a love story.

[Don Quixote Jr]

How about something from East Europe (ie Poland)?
It sounds like you are well versed in the classics and not adverse to long reads, so I highly recommend a classic that has only recently been translated to english: The Manuscript Found in Saragossa by Jan Potocki (1761-1815).
It has been compared to the Decameron & One Thousand and One Nights , and the film version was reputedly Jerry Garcia's favorite movie (for whatever that bit of trivia is worth).

[bazarov]

Bulgakov - Master and Margarita
Goncharov - Oblomov