It seems I created a tradition without noticing. This is the third end of the year in a row that I spent reading a novel based in Asia:

2022: The Kite runner (Khaled Hosseini) 🇦🇫🇺🇲

2023: The travelling cat chronicles (Hiro Arikawa) 🇯🇵

2024: Pachinko (Min Jin Lee) 🇰🇷🇯🇵