Books like My house has two doors by Han Suyin

A historical novel that follows a young woman’s journey from a fishing village into the refined, yet perilous world of Japanese geishas, exploring the rituals, social pressures, and personal ambitions that shape her life.

In Benjamin P. Gibson’s return to his community after a 10‑year imprisonment, the village of St. Michael’s faces the harsh reality of post‑war survivor “crisis,” as family and tradition vie for survival.

In war‑torn 1937 Shanghai, sisters Pearl and May Beware find their lives turned upside down when their father’s debts force them into marriage and migration to Los Angeles, where they confront love, identity, and the clash between old traditions and new freedoms.

Laurie Lee chronicles a young man's journey from the Cotswolds to London and then through Spain on the eve of civil war, capturing the country’s beauty and turmoil with lyrical clarity.

Author explores China and her family's story from the Taiping Rebellion in the middle of the nineteenth century through the Kuomintang.

Mark Elliot, a married British foreign correspondent in Hong Kong, falls in love with a Eurasian doctor from Mainland China, confronting family prejudice and societal biases while illuminating the complex history of Hong Kong and its people.

Zhou Enlai was one of the greatest statesmen of the twentieth century. Long overshadowed by the more visible - and charismatic - Mao Dzedong, he and his life and extraordinary accomplishments remain little recognized outside China, where he is still revered as the beloved father of the modern nation. In Eldest Son, Han Suyin brings this towering figure to life in a profoundly human and intimate portrait - the first full-scale biography of the late premier to be published in English. Between 1956 and 1974, Dr. Han conducted a series of eleven unprecedented interviews with Zhou, each of them lasting for several hours. Drawing upon these encounters, and on further meetings with his widow, his family and colleagues, as well as her unusual access to the Communist Party archives, Dr. Han presents a nuanced portrait of this deeply committed Chinese nationalist and Communist. Here is the full sweep of Zhou's remarkable life: his early schooling in Japan and Europe, his complex and loyal relationship to Mao, his historic meetings with other world leaders such as Khrushchev, Nehru, and Nixon which opened China to the global community. And Dr. Han gives us the private man as well as the public figure: his loving and formative marriage to Deng Yingchao, the murder of his adopted daughter at the hands of the Red Guards, and ultimately his painful battle with cancer . Like no other, Zhou's life is the history of modern China. Through the lens of his experience we see unfolding the dramatic, sometimes violent, decades of change: the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, the galvanizing Long March, the social convulsions of the Great Leap Forward, the violent excesses of the Cultural Revolution, and the diplomatic rapprochement with the West in the 1970s. Dr. Han weaves these decisive events with the impressions and memories of hundreds of ordinary citizens from every sector of Chinese society to create a rich historical tapestry. Compellingly written, unique in its perspective, Eldest Son is masterful social history and an indispensable portrait of a legendary leader whose political legacy continues to influence the course of China today.

Scott Evans inherits the secluded China House in Salem, New England, and, guided by his lover Michael and psychologist Howard Roth, confronts a dark, supernatural secret from twenty years ago.

A tender picture book about a girl’s experience of living with two homes after her parents’ divorce, offering comfort and reassurance to young readers facing similar changes.