Japanese, Chinese, Korean & Other Literature Books

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books. Kikuji has been invited to a tea ceremony by a mistress of his dead father, only to find that the mistress’ rival and successor is also present. He falls for her, with devastating...

A modern saga spanning the whole of the 20th century, by one of Iceland's most celebrated writers. At the beginning of this story there is death, and yet it is a celebration of life - the passion between a man and a woman, forbidden love, violence,...

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...

In this lyrical, exuberant tale, acclaimed Turkish author Elif Shafak, author of The Island of Missing Trees (a Reese's Book Club Pick), incarnates Rumi's timeless message of love.Ella Rubenstein is forty years old and unhappily married when...

A near-future tale about love, life, and friendship in a world that’s falling apart. Chilco is the name of Pascale’s home island. It is also the Mapudungun word for fuchsia: a word that evokes tropical lushness, wetness, the deep greenness of...

After several years of absence, a man reappears in the life of a woman and their young son. Intent on being a family again, he drives them to Les Roches, a dilapidated house in the mountains, where the man grew up with his own ruthless father. While the...

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...

“Don’t let its French prize-winning status fool you: this is a pleasurable, even filthy summer romance . . . about motorbikes, moody teens and misplaced desire on the Moroccan coast.” – The Times.A coming-of-age tale and...

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...

'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...

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...

'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 major new novel set in nineteenth-century New Orleans by the author of Signs Preceding the End of the World.   New Orleans, 1853. A young exile named Benito Juárez disembarks at a fetid port city at the edge of a swamp. Years later, he...

Tereza and Ivan share secrets. Tereza is now in art school away from the town where she grew up. Ivan is a teacher and artist. Tereza is now nineteen, Ivan is fifty-seven. They have known each other for years. Tereza shares her secrets with her friend...

Lying on the floor scrolling through social media; wrapped up in bed taking your second nap of the day; lounging on the sofa watching TV. You are not lazy, you are on energy saving mode. In a world obsessed with work and productivity, I'm Not Lazy,...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • In the electrifying first installment of the New York Times bestselling series, Harry Hole of the Oslo Crime Squad is dispatched to Sydney to observe a murder case. As he circles closer to the killer, Harry...

An engrossing literary novel about a family mystery, revenge, and forgiveness by Lars Mytting, the bestselling and award-winning author of Norwegian Wood and The Bell in the Lake. An international bestseller and longlisted for the...

The final novel of Hermann Hesse, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, The Glass Bead Game is a fascinating tale of the complexity of modern life as well as a classic of modern literature   Set in the 23rd...

Lars Mytting’s engrossing epic novel The Bell in the Lake—a #1 bestseller in Norway—is the story of a young woman whose fate plays out against her village’s mystical church bells.As long as people could remember, the stave...

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,...