Japanese, Chinese, Korean & Other Literature Books

'Visionary... almost as if David Lynch had dramatised the prophetic books of William Blake' Boyd Tonkin, Financial Times'This is writing of overwhelming accomplishment' Chris Power, ObserverAn enthralling, hallucinatory masterwork by one of...

'A book that confronts the purity of fact, the tyranny of memory, and the totalitarianism of family like no other' Jhumpa Lahiri 'Intense, sharply imagined and fascinating' Colm Toibin'On that day, ten years ago, I saw my parents for the last time. Since...

Crazy, funny and gorgeously dark, Kornél Esti sets into rollicking action a series of adventures about a man and his wicked dopplegänger, who breathes every forbidden idea of his childhood into his ear, and then reappears decades later. Part...

Curl up with a good cat… Amane Morikawa arrives at the bookshop she’s inherited from her grandfather in Onomichi, only to find a dusty space with empty bookshelves – and a group of characterful cats who’ve made it their home...

By the International Booker Prize Shortlisted Author of On Earth As It Is Beneath. Animals go mad and men die (accidentally and not) at a slaughterhouse in an impoverished, isolated corner of Brazil. In a landscape worthy of Cormac McCarthy, the river...

In a family home in the north of France, a crime has been committed. But a crime of what order? Who exactly is the victim and who, if anyone, is the criminal? In Twenty Minutes of Silence, Hélène Bessette unleashes a polyphonic...

In a special seat in a fabled Tokyo cafe, you're offered something irresistible - not just a warm, comforting coffee, but the chance to go back in time to revisit the ones you love .

Seventeen-year-old Milde is from the Outskirts, a place beyond the mountains where the dirt is corpse-rich, where mothers and daughters, banished from society, make their living – without rights, access to care or legal status. But Milde refuses to...

In these stories, Dostoevsky explores both the figure of the dreamer divorced from reality, and also his own ambiguous attitude toward utopianism, themes central to his great novels. In White Nights, the apparent idyll of the dreamer's romantic...

Two brothers are reunited high in the Italian Alps, surrounded by the peaks, valleys and nature of a wild, secluded world The heart-stopping new novel from Italy’s million-copy bestselling author of The Eight Mountains 'A writer of rare wisdom...

A beloved Japanese bestseller, Menu of Happiness is for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold and asks the question: What’s the one dish you’d do anything to taste just one more time?“As warm and nourishing as a good...

Perfect reading for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Higashi's gently uplifting novel posits a world where souls of the departed can inhabit inanimate objects in order to be reunited with their loved ones. What if you could come back after...

PLEASE READ TO THE END AND CONTACT ME IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION.My friend is missing. Before he disappeared, he was working on a magazine about the paranormal―his first real job as an editor. With almost no budget, he resorted to digging through back...

Equal parts hauntingly realistic and strikingly speculative, this dark and imaginative tale is full of social commentary. With just the right amount of discomfort to rattle readers in the right ways, it will get you thinking.From the author of the...

A young man known as the “Go-Between” helps bridge the complex gap between life and death by arranging meetings between the living and the deceased in this sharp, fantastical story about loss, closure and the afterlife.NATIONAL BESTSELLER.A...

The English-language debut of Indonesia's rising star.   The epic novel Beauty Is a Wound combines history, satire, family tragedy, legend, humor, and romance in a sweeping polyphony. The beautiful Indo prostitute Dewi Ayu and her four...

Winner of the Akutagawa Prize. “So bracing, so strange and humane... I loved it.” — Sharlene Teo, author of Ponti “Funny... All the people in this novel are alive.” — Hiromi Kawakami, author...

'Pavese's novels are works of an extraordinary depth where one never stops finding new levels, new meanings' -- Italo Calvino. June, 1943. Allied aircraft are bombing Turin; fascist Italy is on its knees. Every evening, after a day's teaching in the...

'A pure action horror movie set-up, a life-or-death moral dilemma and a terrific, devious twist... I could hardly look away' GILLY MACMILLAN, AUTHOR OF THE BURNING LIBRARY One week to escape High in the mountains, a sudden rockslide traps ten hikers...

A group of friends from university; seven summer days in a cabin in rural Denmark. A chance to swim, sunbathe, flirt, read and spend time together like the old days.At least that’s what Sylvia had hoped. But when Gry turns up with her kids and...