Japanese, Chinese, Korean & Other Literature Books

Mr Palomar is a delightful eccentric whose chief activity is looking at things. He is seeking knowledge; 'it is only after you have come to know the surface of things that you can venture to seek what is underneath'. Whether contemplating a fine cheese,...

A cat and mouse game of surveillance and psychological torment develops between a middleaged artist and her aging mother, as Vigdis Hjorth returns to the themes of her controverdsial modern classic, Will and Testament'To mother is to murder, or...

Shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker PrizeA profound novel about motherhood, friendship, and the power of community from “one of the leading lights in contemporary Latin American literature” (Valeria Luiselli, author of Lost...

2023 International Booker Prize, Longlist New York Times Editors' Choice “A real-time study in crippling self-consciousness, the fragility of normalcy, and the reality of violence.”—The New York Times Buried deep in rural France,...

Longlisted for the 2022 International Booker PrizeA New York Times Notable BookA Library Journal Best Book of 2021A “marvelous...superbly effective” (The New Yorker) debut novel about a young woman coming of age with a...

TIME • Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2022From the international best-selling author of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 comes this chilling dystopian fable for fans of Netflix’s Squid Game.   In a country called Town, a doctor...

A modern-day Wuthering Heights from the author of international bestseller The Eighth Life.   Two families, one devastating secret, and an epic story of forbidden love. Eight years have passed since Stella last saw Ivo, but when he...

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...

The final installment of the masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility, finds Shigekuni Honda an elderly wealthy man in the 1960s, adopting a teenage orphan whom he is convinced is the reincarnation of his childhood friend...

Yukio Mishima’s The Temple of Dawn is the third novel in his masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility. Here, Shigekuni Honda continues his pursuit of the successive reincarnations of Kiyoaki Matsugae, his childhood friend...

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Oceans and decades apart, two women are inextricably bound by the secrets between them.Japan, 1957. Seventeen-year-old Naoko Nakamura’s prearranged marriage would secure her family’s status in their traditional Japanese community, but Naoko...

Oceans and decades apart, two women are inextricably bound by the secrets between them.Japan, 1957. Seventeen-year-old Naoko Nakamura’s prearranged marriage would secure her family’s status in their traditional Japanese community, but Naoko...

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK   A #READ WITH MC BOOK CLUB PICK "A wonderful, life-affirming story about second chances, parenthood, and love..."—Lauren Ho, author of Lucie Yi is Not a Romantic and Last Tang...

National Indie BestsellerWorld Literature Today Notable Translation of the YearSalon Favorite Book of the YearThe South Korean runaway bestseller, an intimate therapy memoir translated by International Booker Prize shortlisted Anton Hur...

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...

The heir to his grandfather's considerable fortune, Anthony Patch is led astray from the path to gainful employment by the temptations of the 1920s Jazz Age. His descent into dissolution and profligacy is accelerated by his marriage to the attractive but...

Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tragic romance of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt and the stylish American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant young psychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is...

Bathsheba Everdene is a headstrong young woman who attracts the attentions of a succession of ill-matched suitors: a quiet sheep farmer, a handsome soldier and an older, wealthy landowner. As the men vie for her affections, she struggles to retain her...

Presented in a brand new translation, this most comprehensive collection of classic Russian tales will enchant readers for their raw beauty and constant ability to surprise and excite.Towards the middle of the nineteenth century, following the example of...