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Strange Weather in Tokyo
Tsukiko is drinking alone in her local sake bar when by chance she meets one of her old high school teachers and, unable to remember his name, she falls back into her old habit of calling him 'Sensei'…
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All the Lovers in the Night
Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copy editor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone in a city where it is not easy to form new relationships, she has little regular contact with anyone other than her…
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Ms Ice Sandwich
A quixotic and funny tale about first love – from the Akutagawa Prize-winning author.
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Ms Ice Sandwich seems to lack social graces, but our young narrator is totally smitten with her. He is in awe of he… -
Greek Lessons
“Now and then, language would thrust its way into her sleep like a skewer through meat, startling her awake several times a night.”
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Heaven
Hailed as a bold foray into new literary territory, Kawakami’s novel is told in the voice of a 14-year-old student who subjected to relentless torment for having a lazy eye. Instead of resisting, the …
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The Vegetarian
Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary, controlled life. But the dreams—invasive images of blood and brutality—torture her, driving Yeong-hye to purge her mind and re…
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Convalescenza
Una donna cerca risposta agli interrogativi che la morte della sorella ha lasciato insoluti: perché, senza un motivo apparente, aveva cominciato a detestarla? Perché, pur essendo in tutto più dotata, …
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The Hole
Asa’s husband is transferring jobs, and his new office is located near his family’s home in the countryside. During an exceptionally hot summer, the young married couple move in, and Asa does her best…
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Breasts and Eggs
Challenging every preconception about storytelling and prose style, mixing wry humor and riveting emotional depth, Kawakami is today one of Japan’s most important and best-selling writers. She explode…
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The White Book
While on a writer’s residency, a nameless narrator focuses on the color white to creatively channel her inner pain. Through lyrical, interconnected stories, she grapples with the tragedy that has haun…
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No Longer Human
Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human, this leading postwar Japanese writer's second novel, tells the poignant and fascinating story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a nor…
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More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #2)
In this charming and emotionally resonant follow up to the internationally bestselling Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, Satoshi Yagisawa paints a poignant and thoughtful portrait of life, love, and how …
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A Perfect Day to Be Alone
It was raining when I arrived at the house. The walls of my room were lined with cat photos, set in fancy frames just below the ceiling.
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When her mother emigrates to China for work, twenty-year-old Chi… -
Human Acts
A riveting, poetic, and fearless portrait of political unrest and the universal struggle for justice by the acclaimed author of The Vegetarian.
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Asa: The Girl Who Turned into a Pair of Chopsticks
The startling first collection of dark, surreal, and unsettling stories from the international prize-winning author of The Woman in the Purple Skirt.
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People From My Neighbourhood
From the author of the internationally bestselling Strange Weather in Tokyo, a collection of interlinking stories that masterfully blend the mundane and the mythical—“fairy tales in the best Brothers …
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