Japanese, Chinese, Korean & Other Literature Books

N.P. is the title of a last collection of short stories by a celebrated Japanese writer. Written in English while he was living in Boston, the book may never see print in his native Japan: each time a new translator takes up the task, death gets in the...

From the author of National Book Award finalist Crossing comes an unlikely love story in Kosovo with unpredictable consequences that reverberates throughout a young man's life—a dazzling tale full of fury, tenderness, longing, and...

From the acclaimed author of Weather comes a slim, stunning portrait of a marriage—a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal shipwreck that unites us all.ONE OF THE 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE...

The beloved Inspector Montalbano series concludes in exquisite style, as the irascible detective attempts to solve the murder of the enigmatic Riccardino - despite interference from a local bishop and a fortune teller.   Longlisted for the CWA Crime...

NOW A FEATURE FILM COMING SOON TO NETFLIX"Genius." —Jia Tolentino, The New YorkerFinalist for the Man Booker International Prize!Experience the blazing, surreal sensation of a fever dream...A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic...

*Selected for Simon Mayo’s BBC Radio 2 Book Club*'Quirky and charming' -- GuardianFor readers of The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly and The Guest Cat comes this passionate, bittersweet love story that will move readers old and youngSecretly steaming open...

One of the great Japanese murder mysteries, Takagi's audacious, brilliantly structured novel revolves around a killer with a seeming fetish for tattooed skin. Can you solve the mystery of the tattoo murder? Tokyo, 1947. At the first post-war meeting...

First published in 1861, Humiliated and Insulted plunges the reader into a world of moral degradation, childhood trauma, unrequited love and irreconcil­able relationships. At the centre of the story are a young struggling author, an orphaned teenager and...

Winner of the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for FictionLong-listed for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionA New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceA Slate Top Ten Book of the YearA TIME Best Fiction Book of 2022Named a Best Book of the...

What ingredients do you need to cure a broken heart? This soul-nourishing comfort read is for anyone who has loved and lost—and wants to love again.Twenty-nine-year-old Momoko has been tragically dumped. She thought her boyfriend was her soulmate...

The 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature winner returns with a highly anticipated new work. Known for lyrical and deeply reflective writing, the author captures us again with a novel that unfolds in a Norwegian fishing village. The first in an upcoming trilogy...

Suicide cannot be read as simply another novel—it is, in a sense, the author’s own oblique, public suicide note, a unique meditation on this most extreme of refusals. Presenting itself as an investigation into the suicide of a close...

The basis of the new major movie from Michel Gondry, starring Audrey Tautou, the beloved French modern classic hailed as "the most poignant love story of our time" by Raymond Queneau.   The story is simple: Boy meets girl; boy marries girl; girl...

The award-winning, shocking Korean bestseller, a unique tale where magic comes at a price. 'A story of choice and consequence. Unique and unorthodox' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐'I didn't want to stop reading, I still don't want the story to be over' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'Don't we...

A forgotten mid-century genius, recently rediscovered in France and never before translated into English, Hélène Bessette is a treasure and a bracing force to reckon with. Lili Is Crying, Hélène Bessette’s debut novel,...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER!FEATURED ON NPR FRESH AIR, NPR WEEKEND EDITION, CBS MORNINGS, AND NBC THE TODAY SHOW“A brilliant literary thriller.” – NBC The Today Show"A masterclass in suspense …...

Last night i got woke up by marco ringing, and he was crying, he said, he died ivor, he died, and i didnt need to hear who to know, i just hung up.Ivor and Marco have been getting high since they were thirteen, started dealing at fourteen, by fifteen...

Thomas Mann wrote his last great novel, Doctor Faustus, during his exile from Nazi Germany. Although he already had a long string of masterpieces to his name, in retrospect this seems to be the novel he was born to write. A modern reworking of the Faust...

A quiet, poetic, and exquisitely gorgeous novel describing a wandering mythic figure in a Kyoto monastery, by the National Book Award winner. The grandson of Prince Genji lives outside of space and time and wanders the grounds of an old monastery in...

Like a fever dream brought to life, this is the epic story of an ancient empire, political intrigue and destiny. When Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés arrives in Tenochtitlan, the glory and grandeur that greet him make him suspect that...