Japanese, Chinese, Korean & Other Literature Books

Verónica is late, and Julián is increasingly convinced she won''t ever come home. To pass the time, he improvises a story about trees to coax his stepdaughter, Daniela, to sleep. He has made a life as a literature professor, developing a...

The final novel from Spain's most acclaimed writer, a novel about a charismatic half-Spanish, half-English man who is recruited by British intelligence“Javier Marías’s best work.” —El PaísRetired spy Tomás...

“The most influential Colombian novel before Gabriel García Márquez.”―Times Literary Supplement A new translation of a Latin American classic, José Eustasio Rivera's The Vortex follows the young poet Arturo Cova...

From bestselling authors Genki Kawamura and Marie Kondo comes a collection of heartwarming and whimsical short stories, based on Marie's personal experience of tidying over 1,000 rooms. Miko is a professional tidier, with a secret. When she enters a...

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...

Mysterious journal entries reveal chilling secrets in this story of a woman who becomes close with a peculiar family after losing her own relatives. We Need to Talk About Kevin meets The Vegetarian in this chilling epistolary novel of...

The prequel to Love Me Tender, narrating Debré’s transformation from affluent career woman to broke single lesbian and writer.I see all her beauty, I see the beauty of women. I see my own body, new. I tell myself there are so many...

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Four narrators, a student from a cafe, a private detective hired by an aggrieved husband, the heroine herself and one of her lovers, construct a portrait of Jacqueline Delanque, otherwise known as Louki. The daughter of a single mother who works in the...

A bold tour-de-force about violence and money, love and desire, and a stand-off with the Devil himselfA woman meets a man on a train in Copenhagen and agrees to visit him in London. While she sits out a two-week Covid quarantine in his apartment, she...

Book Two in the LOST SOULS series of a young man with special powers to connect the living with the afterlife. For fans of BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD and LONELY CASTLE IN THE MIRROR The much-anticipated follow-up novel to Lost Souls Meet Under a...

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...

'Tantalising' Leo Vardiashvili, author of Hard by a Great Forest   'Profound' Iqbal Hussain, author of Northern Boy Two strangers meet in Manhattan and spend a perfect night together. In Tokyo, they have seven days to see if that...

The life he once knew flashes before his eyes, as Bo grapples with having to surrender his independence. This is a moving story about growing old, connecting with family and accepting the inevitable. INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE...

Working at a book pulping factory in a job he hates, Guylain Vignolles has but one pleasure in life. Sitting on the 6.27 train each day, Guylain recites aloud from pages he has saved from the jaws of his monstrous pulping machine. It's this release of...

A spectacular display of this key European writer's early work. This dazzling collection of stories follows the individual adventures of a varied cast of characters and masterfully illustrates Calvino's unique perspective and narrative gifts. As well as...

What if you could turn the pages of your own life, like the pages of your favourite book?Step into the magical and uplifting world of THE MOON GLOW BOOKSHOP - the Korean sensation for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold and DallerGut Dream...

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...

Two novellas from a remarkable voice, László Krasznahorkai explores the themes of mortality, obsession and the inevitability of oblivion. Now in paperback, two novellas from the Hungarian master László...

This iconic, fantastical short story from the acclaimed author of Norwegian Wood and 1Q84 about a man who joins forces with a giant frog to save Tokyo is presented in an exquisite hardback edition, translated by Jay Rubin...