Has there ever been a classic novel that focusses on a culture far removed from the author's own culture? I didn't think so... Authors of boring culture blooooooown out. ;)
>>9278665
I've yet to read Siddharta, but that sounds like your novel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilio_Salgari
Memoirs of Hadrian
Salammbô
Robert Graves' Claudius
All orientalist fiction
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>>9278665
Memoirs of a Geisha.
Still critisized for falling into cliches and getting bits wrong, of course, but fairly succesful.
>>9278864
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