Japanese, Chinese, Korean & Other Literature Books

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...

'Perhaps the best chess story ever written, perhaps the best about any game' Economist 'Zweig belongs with those masters of the novella - Maupassant, Turgenev, Chekhov' Paul Bailey, TLS Chess champion Mirko Czentovic is travelling on an ocean...

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...

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...

A teen descendant of a Japanese dragon god must find out the truth of what happened to her missing sister while trying not to fall for a handsome rogue agent in acclaimed author Kylie Lee Baker's magical new YA romance, I'll Find You Where the...

Yamamoto offers a deeply relatable lens into the complexities faced by contemporary women in five stories. This is a timely and engaging read that tackles heavy themes without skimping out on humor. “Now offered in translation for the first time,...

From a dazzling new international voice, an audacious, darkly funny novel about a young woman whose carefully crafted office persona threatens to crack when she’s forced to attend her company’s annual retreat.On the surface, Marisa's life...

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 award-winning, bestselling Japanese phenomenon: a speculative, prophetic novel following a young and brilliant celebrity architect in Tokyo who takes on her most controversial project yet—perfect for readers of Klara and the...

Things: A Story of the Sixties is the story of a young couple who want to enjoy life, but the only way they know how to do so is through ownership of 'things'. Perec's first novel won the Prix Renaudot and became the cult book for a generation...

A subversively cozy Japanese crime novel with an ingenious Groundhog Day twist: a teenager’s time-loop race to solve—and possibly prevent—his grandfather’s murder!Contemporary Japanese legend Yasuhiko Nishizawa...

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...

The enchanting new novel by the multimillion-copy bestselling author of What You Are Looking For Is in the Library, about five strangers who each seek comfort from a healing hippo ride.Nestled at the bottom of a five-story apartment block in...

A thrilling and satisfying new mystery featuring Keigo Higashino's enduringly popular Detective Galileo, first introduced in The Devotion of Suspect X. The body of a young man is found floating in Tokyo Bay. But his death was no accident - Ryota...

In these two captivating short stories from a towering figure in world literature and the first non-European winner of Nobel Prize for Literature, Rabindranath Tagore maps the slow undoing of two Bengali families with his customary lyricism and fierce...

The first novel from Izumi Suzuki to be published in English: a candid, intimate exploration of passion, music and transgression.Hope I’m in for a good time, I thought. Even if it’s just for tonight.Set in the underground bar and club scene...

AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER | A SUNDAY TIMES UK BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR | SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA CRIME FICTION IN TRANSLATION AWARD.“So much to relish here . . . and the writing is just lovely!” —Diane Setterfield, New York...

Ideal for fans of What You Are Looking for is in the Library and DallerGut Dream Department Store, Yagi's winningly quirky tale revolves around a museum attendant who strikes up an unlikely friendship with the Venus de Milo. Rika...

In this million-copy international bestseller from Korea, the owner of a corner store takes in an unhoused man who does a good deed, a kind soul whose presence will transform the whole neighborhood—a heartwarming tale of community and redemption...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books.‘But how sweet a fruit the ‘suppose’ must be, that people will sup and sup on it! A juicy fruit, like a lychee but without the pit, sparkling and light green: a fruit that hides...