Fiction from around the world

I’ve just finished (literally, ie 5 minutes ago!) Family Life by Akhil Sharma. I started it late yesterday evening and couldn’t put it down. It’s a very powerful and sensitive book, full of humour and sadness,about an Indian family who emigrate to America.
Upon finishing it I decided to Google the author to find out who exactly he was, as the book is outstanding. I discovered that the story is autobiographical.
I recommend it unreservedly.

I loved Archipelago by Monique Roffey. It's about a boat journey from Trinidad to the Galapagos. Quite sad but uplifting at the same time.

I love The Cairo Trilogy!

We lived in Hong Kong for a few years. John Lancaster's The Fragrant Harbour was the best fiction I read there. I also liked The Piano Teacher and The Expatriates by Janice Lee, both based in HK.

Also, from my Goodreads over the last year:
The Shadow of the Wind (Spain)
A Man Called Ove (Sweden)
The Luminaries (New Zealand)
China Rich Girlfriend (China)
Barracuda (Australia)
The Alexandria Quartet (Egypt)

sorry last recommendation The Poisonwood Bible is excellent set in The Congo.

The Cairo Trilogy by Mahfouz has to be my favourite book by a Middle Eastern author.

Wizard of the Crow is outrageous, awful and funny at times. Perfectly describes dictatorship in some African countries.

The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak

I agree about Murukami- I just read the Wind-up Bird Chronicles, and while the main thought I had the whole way through was, they're all so weird! what is going on? it also really stayed with me and I want to read it again.
Loads of great suggestions here. Can I add:
Jose Eduardo Agualusa - Angolan writer, not sure how much has been translated into English but the Book of Chameleons is his most famous and definitely is available on Amazon.
From Brazil, I would recommend Clarice Lispector, a short story writer who died in the 70s. But you have to like the slight weirdness of the short story form to get into her.
Also Chico Buarque's Spilt Milk was good - I didn't like My German Brother though. Jorge Amado is very much in the Isabel Allende/GGMarquez school, recommend Dona Flor & her 2 husbands if you like that style.

Anything by Murukami. Japanese fiction with bits of fantasy/magic realism.

The bone people - Keri Hulme

I love magical realism, my favourite authors are Isabel Allende - House of spirits, Eva Luna, Portrait in Sepia, The infinite plan, The Japanese Lover etc and of course Gabriel Garcia Marques.
I also really enjoyed The Bone Oroe by Keri Hulme, she is from New Zealand.

You want the Eurpoa imprints. 99% of them (I think) are translations and as a bonus the books are beautiful. I might have. shelf full of them... My Waterstones has a good selection. Linky here if you want to find out more about them www.europaeditions.com/catalogue/search

Wild Swans by Jung Chang is extraordinary.

Loved Half of a Yellow Sun by Adichie.

Don’t forget Chinua Achebe.

The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien is a wonderful and harrowing collection of linked short stories about the Vietnam War.

Little bit different, but I really enjoyed the sci-fi novel TheThree Body Problem by the Chinese author Cixin Liu - it starts in 1950s China & goes from there.
(There are two sequels which are also a good read, although the translators are different, and I didn't like the style quite as much.)

Big yes to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, who is wonderful, but I also loved I Do Not Come to You by Chance by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, another young Nigerian writer. Also We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo, which is set in Zimbabwe and America.

You also can't go far wrong with Isabel Allende and Gabriel García Márquez for south America.

These are just some of the books I have liked that are "far flung"

In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner - Cambodia

Silver Travel Book Club is just reading "Do Not Become Alarmed" by Maile Maloy - Central America

Pachinko as suggested by @SatsukiKusakabe is great as is The Ginger Tree (one of my all time faves) as suggested by @bookwitch

After the Storm by Jane Lythell - Honduras

Apostle Lodge by Paul Mendelson - South Africa

Force of Nature by Jane Harper - Victoria, Australia

Deep Blue Trouble by Steph Broadribb - California

The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey - Bombay

Emily Barr is quite good for exploring exotic locations in fiction. Graham Greene for classic #literarywanderlust

Anyway, some there for you to think about....

I enjoyed Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend series.

Amos Oz's novels too - his first one was published about 50 years ago, the latest a couple of years ago.

The Harmony Silk Factory by Tash Aw is set in Malaysia

Waking Lions by Israeli author Ayelet Gundar-Goshen was a MN book of the month last year. I loved it.

YY to Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie

whereabouts do you live in Asia, if you don't mind me asking?

I live in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Yi Yun Li is a great Chinese writer. Her stuff is quite grim though. The Vagrants is a short novel that I enjoyed and I also liked a short story collection called A Thousand Years of Good Prayers.

Other things I read recently and enjoyed:

Augustown - Kei Miller (Jamaica)
The Book of Memory - Pettina Gappah (Zimbabwe)
The Dead Lake - Hamid Ismailov (Kazakhstan)
Signs Preceding The End of the World - Yuri Herrera (Mexico)

I also love Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie, Amitav Ghosh and Nadeem Aslam.

Isabelle Allende - South America? I loved The House of the Spirits

Yaa Gyesi's Homegoing is v popular now. It's half set in Africa and half in the US. It's a fictional history through the centuries of a family where one sister stays in Africa, and one is taken to the US as a slave. I loved it.

It's not a very happy story, though.

Oh oh, and Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, by Alexandra Fuller (childhood memoir set in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe).

Brilliant idea for a thread!

The only one I can think of off the top of my head right now is Istanbul, by Orhan Pamuk. So incredibly evocative.

Will think more later (when not supposed to be working...)