Japanese, Chinese, Korean & Other Literature Books

*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...

(Available after July 30th, 2023)The latest historical novel from New York Times bestselling author Lisa See, inspired by the true story of a woman physician from 15th-century China—perfect for fans of See’s classic Snowflower and the Secret...

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...

On the 22nd of January 2017, Pateh Sabally, a twenty-two-year-old Gambian refugee living in Italy since 2015, arrives in Venice from Milan. He leaves his backpack near the Scalzi Bridge, puts his train ticket and residence permit in a plastic pouch, and...

THE KOREAN SENSATION. For lovers of The Midnight Library and Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, discover a spellbinding novel about a mysterious bookshop that exists outside of time and space, where the past is only a page away… If...

Hope, friendship, and a stinging betrayal. The author of Breasts and Eggs delivers a sharp drama about desperation, tension and survival.From Mieko Kawakami, award-winning author of Breasts and Eggs, comes a bold novel of sacrifice and the...

'Insinuating, haunting and lyrically pervasive' -- The New York Times Book Review.A new translation by Tim ParksTwenty years after making his fortune in America, Eel is drawn back to the closest thing he has to a home: the Piedmontese countryside where...

My Brilliant Friend meets Blue is the Warmest Color in this lyrical debut novel set in a working-class neighborhood of the Canary Islands—a story about two girls coming of age in the early aughts and a friendship that simmers into...

A landmark of Japanese historical fiction, Ikenami's enthralling crime caper novel sends a freshly created samurai, his father and a formidable female warrior into the Edo underworld to uncover a deadly conspiracy. Shogun meets Sherlock Holmes!...

A Japanese The Thursday Murder Club, taking healing fiction for a mystery-filled spin with this Japanese bestseller that has sold more than 200,000 copies in Japan.He’s not your average Grandpa.As a lover of classic crime stories,...

Perfect reading for all fans of Days at the Morisaki Bookshop and Before the Coffee Gets Cold, this heartwarming Japanese bestseller centres on a charming convenience store called Tenderness. A special night edition to celebrate the...

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...

Welcome to the Marigold Mind Laundry, where we wash away the stains from your heart.In this enchanting tale—a blockbuster bestseller in Korea—the enigmatic owner of a magical laundromat that erases people’s painful memories must...

Long hailed as a seminal work of modernism in the tradition of Joyce and Kafka, and now available in a supple new English translation, Italo Svevo’s charming and splendidly idiosyncratic novel conducts readers deep into one hilariously...

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 Night Library is no ordinary library.Within it are found the rarest and most unusual collections – the books of deceased famous writers:the books they wrote;the books that inspired them;the books they loved.All Otaha Higuchi wants to do is work...

After several years of absence, a man reappears in the life of a woman and their young son. Intent on being a family again, he drives them to Les Roches, a dilapidated house in the mountains, where the man grew up with his own ruthless father. While the...

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,...