Japanese, Chinese, Korean & Other Literature Books

NYPL's Best Books of 2024.A groundbreaking, potent novel about the destructive force of romantic love from award-winning writer Vigdis Hjorth.A relatively young woman, aged thirty. She married in her early twenties, had two children. It is winter...

The award-winning literary thriller from one of Italy's most exciting feminist writers, for fans of Sophie Mackintosh, Elena Ferrante and Sarah Moss. One morning, a teacher disappears into the woods. As whispers fill her classroom and relatives scour...

"Joseph Andras writes with the swiftness of lightning."–Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of The Sympathizer.A biographical historical fiction retelling of Ho Chi Minh's immigration and radical life in underground Paris in the 1920sFleeing persecution...

Widely viewed as one of the most inventive bodies of work from 20th-century Latin America, Mario Levrero’s writing is distinguished by its bounteous imagination. In none other of the author’s books is this imagination so clearly on display as...

“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...

“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...

Gritty and unflinching, yet also tender, fantastical, and funny, a trans woman's coming-of-age tale about finding a community among fellow outcasts.Camila Sosa Villada's extraordinary first novel is a rich, nuanced portrait of a marginalized community:...

NAMED A "FALL 2020 MUST-READ" AND ONE OF THE "BEST BOOKS OF FALL 2020" BY TIME, VULTURE, THE BOSTON GLOBE, COSMOPOLITAN, WIRED, TOR AND MORE. Electrifying and provocative, visceral and profound, a powerful literary debut novel about a young woman whose...

Facing a corruption investigation, and in the twilight of his life, a wealthy man begins to re-examine all.   Park Minwoo is, by every measure, a success story. Born into poverty in a miserable neighborhood of Seoul, he has ridden the wave of...

"Bloody, unapologetic, and wild ... I loved it!"—Naomi Krupitsky, New York Times bestselling author of The Family. "The Cursed Friend grabs the reader’s attention and doesn’t let go . . . a magnetic coming-of-age...

'It's about time British readers discovered the wit and originality of David Foenkinos' Jonathan Coe, author of Bournville.A magical imagining of the fate of a fictional boy whose life is shaped forever when he loses out on the role of Harry Potter...

By turns melancholic and humorous, this collection of stories from the Nobel Laureate Kazuo Ishiguro is an exquisite meditation on love, the power of music and the passing of time. The lyrical, intimate stories of Nocturnes resound sometimes...

In a small town in Switzerland, Franz—ex-clergyman, ex-husband, current counselor of locals at loose ends— is being haunted by his recently deceased father, Klement. In life, Franz was caught cheating on his wife and defrocked, after which...

Also known as Journey to the West, Wu Ch'êng-ên's Monkey is one of the Four Great Classical Novels in Chinese literature, translated by Arthur Waley in Penguin Classics. Monkey depicts the adventures of Prince Tripitaka, a...

Kotaro Isaka might not be a familiar name to you. Yet, what could be more fun than trained assassins looking for each other while looking for a much coveted briefcase? On a train! That’s what could be more fun! Like a locked room mystery, the...

NOW A MAX ORIGINAL SERIES. A riveting true-life tale of newspaper noir and Japanese organized crime from an American investigative journalist who "pulls the curtain back on ... [an] element of Japanese society that few Westerners ever see" (San...

Kamila Shamsie's Burnt Shadows is a story for our time by "a writer of immense ambition and strength. . . . This is an absorbing novel that commands in the reader a powerful emotional and intellectual response" -Salman Rushdie.   Winner of...

From Tove Ditlevsen, the acclaimed author of the Copenhagen Trilogy, comes The Faces, a searing, haunting novel of a woman on the edge, portrayed with all the vividness of lived experience.   Copenhagen, 1968. Lise, a children’s book...

Other people's families are always more interesting that our own and we really didn't want to leave Lily and Nick (and the rest of the cast) behind… Grab a friend, this is a family you'll want to talk about.From the award-winning author...

Originally written in Japanese, this passionate, vividly personal book draws on the author's experiences in Japan over 30 years. Alex Kerr brings to life the ritualized world of Kabuki, retraces his initiation into Tokyo's boardrooms during the heady...