Japanese, Chinese, Korean & Other Literature Books

The farmers of Paradise County have been leading a hardscrabble life unchanged for generations. The Communist government has encouraged them to plant garlic, but selling the crop is not as simple as they believed. Warehouses fill up, taxes skyrocket, and...

Tales from Japan that blend humor, surrealism, and sharp societal critique, by the acclaimed author of Where the Wild Ladies Are.   “Piercing and sometimes surreal... Matsuda shines.”—Publishers Weekly. In The Woman...

Perfect for fans of A Man Called Ove, Walde's wildly entertaining, equal parts raw and tender novel examines boyhood and the chaos of social change through seven-year-old Andrev whose mother keeps acquiring new 'father' candidates for him...

Discover the original Japanese Cat classic, now in a vibrant new translation by Nick Bradley, author of The Cat and the City. 'I am a Cat. But I still don't have a name...' Once a stray kitten, I Am a Cat’s narrator finds himself adopted...

LONGLISTED FOR THE PRIX GONCOURT 2022. From the bestselling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog comes the story of one man’s promise to keep a secret that may hold him from the greatest joy possible.Haru, a successful Japanese art dealer,...

Reykjavík, the near-future. Society is divided by a development in social technology—a diagnostic tool called The Empathy Test that measures compassion or amorality.In less than two months, a national referendum will determine whether...

A Best Book of 2023 by the New York Times and The New Yorker and Longlisted for the National Book Award.A gripping literary mystery in the vein of Bolaño’s Savage Detectives, this coming-of-age novel unravels the...

Instant New York Times Bestseller.“Unimpeachably terrific.” —The New York Times Book Review.For fans of Ruth Ware, Shari Lapena, and Donna Tartt: a twisty, fast-paced, cinematic literary thriller, and an ingenious book...

"A fable becoming reality of a woman becoming herself: Tehila Hakimi's Hunting in America just purely bangs." —Joshua Cohen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Netanyahus."A wry, mesmerizing voice. . . . You can’t stop...

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 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...

“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...

'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...

'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,...