Japanese, Chinese, Korean & Other Literature Books

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023 In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more than twenty years earlier: standing by the window waiting for her husband Asle, on that terrible late...

Of all the great Japanese novelists, Kobe Abe was indubitably the most versatile. With The Ruined Map, he crafted a mesmerizing literary crime novel that combines the narrative suspense of Chandler with the psychological depth of Dostoevsky.Mr...

Set in rural Japan shortly after World War II, this gripping novel tells the story of a strange and utterly absorbing love triangle that leads to psychological self-entrapment, seduction, and murder. “A compelling tale of love and violence...

A New York Times Notable Book One of NPR's Best Books of 2021"Knausgaard is among the finest writers alive.” —Dwight Garner, New York TimesThe international bestseller from the author of the renowned My...

'After all that - how, you might wonder, could one not become a fatalist?' Lermontov's hero, Pechorin, is a young army officer posted to the Caucasus, where his adventures - amorous and reckless - do nothing to alleviate his boredom and cynicism...

Fumio Sasaki is not an enlightened minimalism expert or organizing guru like Marie Kondo--he's just a regular guy who was stressed out and constantly comparing himself to others, until one day he decided to change his life by saying goodbye to everything...

Dazzlingly original, Kobo Abe's The Woman in the Dunes is one of the premier Japanese novels in the twentieth century, and this Penguin Classics edition contains a new introduction by David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas. Niki Jumpei, an amateur...

A tale of youth and warped masculinity, this is the suspenseful, lyrical and page-turning Japanese classic. A band of thirteen-year-old boys reject the stupidity of the adult world. They decide it is illusory, hypocritical and sentimental, and train...

Tokyo, 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders - rich provincial families, a new and powerful political and social elite. Kiyoaki has been raised among the elegant Ayakura family - members of...

(Available after 3-20 days)Morino is the strangest girl in school-how could she not be, given her obsession with brutal murders? And there are plenty of murders to grow obsessed with as the town in which she lives is a magnet for serial killers. She and...

A celebrated actress who has died in mysterious and shocking circumstances leaves behind an unconventional extended family that includes an older sister, a woman in her twenties through whose eyes the story unfolds; a young brother who possesses mystical...

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Thrillist, The Millions, Frieze, and Metropolis JapanThe first English language publication of the work of Izumi Suzuki, a legend of Japanese science fiction and a countercultural iconAt turns nonchalantly hip and...

Wrapping a trenchant critique of borders and identity within a playful, quirky road trip narrative, Shree's delightfully judged novel follows an elderly woman's new lease of life as she returns to the Pakistan of her youth. In northern India, an...

“Ruiz Zafón’s visionary storytelling prowess is a genre unto itself.”—USA Today   Return to the mythical Barcelona library known as the Cemetery of Forgotten Books in this posthumous collection of stories from the New York Times bestselling author of The...

For the first time in English, Osamu Dazai’s hilariously comic and deeply moving prequel to No Longer Human   The Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanitarium where Yozo Oba—the narrator of No Longer Human at a younger age—is being kept...

'An astonishing portrait of an innocent on the verge of discovering the cruelties of love... an inimitable read' - Elizabeth Strout, from the introduction.'Life was a perpetual holiday in those days...'Italy, 1930s. It's the height of summer, and...

From the International Booker Prize– shortlisted author of What I'd Rather Not Think Aboutcomes a darkly humorous novel about multigenerational family dynamics and individuality in Dutch suburbia.   An unnamed narrator grows up overshadowed by...

History of Violence is international bestselling French author Édouard Louis’s autobiographical novel about surviving a shocking sexual assault and coping with the post-traumatic stress disorder of its aftermath.   On Christmas Eve...

A novel about the rich stories of small places, from the Nobel Prize–winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Books of Jacob and Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the DeadA woman settles in a remote Polish village...

FROM ONE OF JAPAN'S GREATEST CRIME WRITERS—THE AUTHOR OF THE HONJIN MURDERS: Nothing at The Black Cat Café is as it seems. . .In order to solve this sensational stand-alone murder mystery, scruffy detective Kosuke Kindaichi will have to...