Japanese, Chinese, Korean & Other Literature Books

(Available after March 30th, 2023)"A brilliant, quietly tumultuous book and a welcome revival of an author too little known in the anglophone world."—Toby Lichtig, The Wall Street Journal"Forbidden Notebook promises a new cohort of readers, appetites...

A Freeman Award Winner for Young Adult Literature   For two teens, falling in love is going to make a world of difference in this beautifully translated, bold, and endearing novel about love, loss, and the pain of racial discrimination. As a Korean...

'A beautiful book' -- Ursula K. Le GuinThis mordantly funny and provocative tale from Soviet Russia's leading science fiction writers is the story of astrophysicist Dmitri Malianov. As he reaches a major breakthrough, he finds himself plagued by...

Kiss of the Spider Woman is a graceful, intensely compelling novel about love and victimization. In an Argentine prison, two men share a cell: Molina, a gay window dresser who is self-centered, self-denigrating, yet charming as well; and Valentin,...

**Named by Men's Health: "50 Books Every Man Should Read Before Turning 50"**Based upon the historical bandit Song Jiang and his companions, The Water Margin is an epic tale of rebellion against tyranny that will remind Western readers of the English...

Blessed with a striking jacket image, this hardback edition of The Travelling Cat Chronicles and The Goodbye Cat is the ultimate way to read Arikawa's heartwarming stories of feline friendship. Discover the fabulous new double...

"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...

From the author and translator of the National Book Award finalist and Booker Prize shortlisted Cursed Bunny, comes a novel-in-ghost-stories, set in a mysterious research center that houses cursed objects, where those who open the wrong door might...

From French literary talent and Prix Goncourt winner Jean-Baptiste Andrea, a “sprawling fresco and star-crossed love story” (The New York Times) following a dwarf and skilled sculptor as he recounts the moments in his life that inspired his...

Discover Frankie, the international fur-nomenon—a gem of a book about two misfits who form the unlikeliest friendship.Meet Frankie the cat. He’s a scrappy stray who belongs to no one, and that’s just how he likes it.Until one day,...

Time is broken (but not meaningless) in this mind-bending installment in an epic seven-volume series of novels that rewrite time and history of the world as we know it.“A literary phenomenon nearly forty years in the making, and a speculative...

My Brilliant Friend meets Blue is the Warmest Color in this lyrical debut novel set in a working-class neighborhood of the Canary Islands—a story about two girls coming of age in the early aughts and a friendship that simmers into...

Death in Spring is a dark and dream-like tale of a teenage boy's coming of age in a remote village in the Catalan mountains; a place cut off from the outside world, where cruel customs are blindly followed, and attempts at rebellion swiftly crushed...

A deviously clever, locked room puzzle mystery from the celebrated Japanese author of The Decagon House Murders that’s perfect for fans of Uketsu’s Strange HousesBrilliant detective Shimada Kiyoshi must save a team of...

From the author of The Door and Abigail and for fans of Elena Ferrante and Clarice Lispector, a newly translated novel about a theater star who is forced to reckon with her painful and tragic past.In The Door, in Iza’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,...

A landmark of Japanese historical fiction, Ikenami's enthralling crime caper novel sends a freshly created samurai, his father and a formidable female warrior into the Edo underworld to uncover a deadly conspiracy. Shogun meets Sherlock Holmes!...

A Japanese The Thursday Murder Club, taking healing fiction for a mystery-filled spin with this Japanese bestseller that has sold more than 200,000 copies in Japan.He’s not your average Grandpa.As a lover of classic crime stories,...

A touching tale of connection, healing and the magic of handwritten words from the author of Letters from the Ginza Shihodo Stationery Shop Hidden away in Tokyo's Ginza district lies Shihodo, a hidden gem known only to insiders, with an abundant...

Stepping out into the dusk of a warm Moscow evening, esteemed art critic Anatoly Sukhanov feels on top of the world: his career is glittering, his wife is beautiful and his children are clever. But the year is 1985 and the air is heavy with change...