Japanese, Chinese, Korean & Other Literature Books

From the award-winning Korean author Gu Byeong-mo and International Booker-nominated translator Chi-Young Kim, comes a thought-provoking story of community and the cultural expectations of motherhood. What are you willing to sacrifice for a 'better'...

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...

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,...

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...

The bestselling South Korean phenomenon, To the Moon is a bittersweet tale of wealth and class, female friendship, and the promise of the future when good fortune seems to be just around the corner.In Seoul, three young women meet while working...

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...

'I like eating cold, clammy wraps from big pharmacies that are open late and sell just a few foods like protein bars and powders.' Flower is a book of realistic admissions, likes, dislikes, memories and no-brainer observations, treating...

90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books. Fabien tonight was wandering over the vast splendour of a sea of clouds, but below him lay eternity. Inspired by his career as an aviator, Saint-Exupéry’s soaring novel follows the...

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...

Use your powers of logic and deduction to solve this classic honkaku puzzler—the Japanese tradition of detective fiction—in this delicious twisty murder mystery!In Osaka, dark secrets haunt a wealthy merchant family throughout the first half...

“Compelling . . . unfailingly interesting, building suspense as readers wonder what will happen” —Booklist (starred review). “Schlink knows how to tell a gripping yarn . . . [The Grandaughter] is a rewarding and wonderfully...

The classic, award-winning novel, made famous by Steven Spielberg’s film, tells of a young boy’s struggle to survive World War II in China.Jim is separated from his parents in a world at war. To survive, he must find a strength greater than...

Gorgeously written and unflinchingly hilarious, Skippy Dies is built around a bunch of 14-year-old boys and deftly drifts between the completely serious and the outrageously ridiculous with unmatched tact. Populated by characters that will easily endear...

The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner challenges our most fiercely held beliefs as she weaves folklore and history, memory and myth into an unforgettable meditation on race, religion, gender, and a far-off past that is ever present—in prose that soars...

Calm your mind. Be here, now. Take a breath. And kill.'What a breath of fresh air! Dark, very funny, totally engaging.' CRAIG RUSSELL, author of HYDETHE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - OVER 2.5M COPIES SOLDI didn't kill anyone until I was forty-two. That's...

** ONE of THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 **A pioneering, revelatory masterpiece of modern literature that conjures the life of 16-year-old girl living on the Argentine pampas — now in English for the very first time.With echoes of Edith...

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020, an enthralling Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance from one of Japan's greatest writers.Hat, ribbon, bird rose.To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no longer has any...

*OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD**NOW AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER*If you could go back, who would you want to meet?In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local...

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the Story Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, and the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award. Named a Best Book of the Year by Los Angeles Times, Vulture, Esquire, NPR, and Kirkus Reviews. A new...

A new translation of Sade’s most notorious, shocking, and influential novel. Winner of the 2017 Scott Moncrieff Prize. This distressing but hugely important text has influenced countless individuals throughout history: Flaubert and...