Japanese, Chinese, Korean & Other Literature Books

"A master crime writer . . . Seicho Matsumoto's thrillers dissect Japanese society."—The New York Times Book Review."A stellar psychological thriller with a surprising and immensely satisfying resolution that flows naturally from the book’s...

One of Thailand’s best-known and most highly regarded novels, portraying the romance of a young Thai man and a married older woman.‘In that tranquil and apparently very ordinary picture, I see everything unfolding. Every scene, every part,...

For readers of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, The Dallergut Dream Department Store, and The Midnight Library, a sweetly magical and uplifting novel about a  young woman who inherits an enchanted bakery that spirits visit on...

Fans of Toshikazu Kawaguchi's Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, this is the book for you! An unassuming Tokyo ramen shop contains a portal to another realm where customers can change their lives for the low price of one regret at a time. A...

The Kokoro Clinic for the Soul reopens in this delightful follow-up to the award-winning, bestselling Japanese novel We'll Prescribe You a Cat.It’s time to revisit the Kokoro Clinic for the Soul.Though it’s a mysteriously located clinic...

WINNER 2020 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE. Best-selling and beloved Japanese author Hiromi Kawakami (The Nakano Thrift Shop) tells the story of an enigmatic man through the voices of ten remarkable women who have loved him. “If you like Haruki Murakami and...

An obsessive Tokyoite Pygmalion—thrilling and provocative literary fiction from a leading Japanese author. Akira, a meticulous editor at a major publishing house in Tokyo, harbors a secret: he lives with Koharu, a Hungarian-made love doll. Each...

Having spent some time in Rome, Antonio - the handsomest young man in Catania - returns to his native town with the reputation of being a playboy and with a long list of amorous adventures behind him. To please his father, Antonio agrees to marry the...

The perfect cosy read for 2025 - cats and food come together as the seasons change Meet Chimaki and Norimaki - two young cats lost in the sprawling metropolis of Tokyo, sniffing out cat-lovers who might be kind enough give them a ride or place to sleep...

From the internationally bestselling author of the Morisaki Bookshop novels comes a charming and poignant story set at a quiet Tokyo café where customers find unexpected connection and experience everyday miracles.   Tucked away on a narrow...

"A memorable existential tale." —Publishers Weekly.For readers of Han Kang and Sheila Heti, an atmospheric, melancholic novel about a successful sculptor who decides to commit suicide by artfully preparing and deliberately eating a lethal dish of...

'Thrillingly addictive, magnificent, luxurious . . . as staggering and absorbing as a great 19th-century novel' -- Telegraph. 'I loved it and it had been a long time since I had read anything that gave me such life and joy' -- Natalia Ginzburg The...

'Indisputably the definitive translation' -- Observer 'If there is one novel you should read before you die, it is Don Quixote' -- Ben Okri. Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever...

A stunning debut novel from the acclaimed young Irish poet Seán Hewitt, reminiscent of Garth Greenwell and Justin Torres in the intensity of its evocation of sexual awakening.Set in a remote village in the north of England, Open,...

A wickedly funny work of depraved genius by one of Brazil’s most radical twentieth-century writers; imagine the Marquis de Sade as written by Clarice Lespecter.An electrifying masterpiece by one of modern Brazilian literature’s most...

Across three generations, three wars, two continents, and the mythic waters of the Mediterranean, one family’s history leads to an inevitable question: What price do our descendants pay for the choices that we make?   Naïma knows Algeria...

Nineteen-year-old Little Lea lives in a rural town where life ends at the edge of the forest.   When a stranger loses his dog on the first day after the end of the world, Little Lea warns him not to follow it into the forest, that people who enter...

A raucous, macabre tale of failure from the filmmaker-turned-writer whose work has garnered cultish attention in recent years. Georges Maman is a down-and-out actor sinking into despair and no longer able to scrape by, failing to make his mark even in...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books. The whole town got involved with the hunger-artist; from day to day of his starving, people’s participation grew; everyone wanted to see the hunger-artist at least once a day; on the later...

The only thing we love more than coffee shops are magical cats. Get swept away in this enchanting tale that will delight readers of Toshikazu Kawaguchi.NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Translated from the Japanese bestseller, a charming and magical novel that...