Japanese, Chinese, Korean & Other Literature Books

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...

A mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian new novel by Yoko Tawada, winner of the 2022 National Book Award. Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now remembered as “the land of sushi.”...

From the renowned Russian author of In Memory of Memory, a stunning new dreamlike work about exile and art. The writer M has lived in the city of B ever since her homeland declared war on a neighboring state. Exiled, she is unable to write...

Perfect for fans of A Man Called Ove, Walden's wildly entertaining, equally 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...

When her favorite books start disappearing from the library, Nanami and a mysterious talking cat spring to action and a whimsical book-saving adventure begins. “Cats, books, young love, and adventure: catnip for a variety of...

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...

A Paperback Original. Named a Most Anticipated Book by The New York Times, The Guardian, Forbes, Oprah Daily, Lit Hub, and Publishers Weekly From the author of the international bestseller Butter comes a chilling and...

A young man known as the “Go-Between” helps bridge the complex gap between life and death by arranging meetings between the living and the deceased in this sharp, fantastical story about loss, closure and the afterlife.NATIONAL BESTSELLER.A...

In Norway’s frozen north, it’s not just secrets that are buried. When nineteen-year-old Iselin Hanssen disappears during a run in a popular hiking area in Bodø, Northern Norway, suspicion quickly falls on her boyfriend.For investigator...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018.Shakespeare’s dark and tragic play retold in a heart-pounding New York Times bestselling thriller from the author of The Snowman and The Thirst. Set in the 1970s in a...

From “a novelist at the height of his powers,” a dramatic and jubilant dive into France in the “glorious years” of the 1950s, through the lens of one ambitious, troubled, and utterly compelling family (La Croix). It is 1952...

The English-language debut of Indonesia's rising star.   The epic novel Beauty Is a Wound combines history, satire, family tragedy, legend, humor, and romance in a sweeping polyphony. The beautiful Indo prostitute Dewi Ayu and her four...

Beyond Mars, beyond physical form, beyond human understanding…what’s left is the absolute Martian Manhunter! Brought into the Absolute Universe by Deniz Camp and Javier Rodríguez, Absolute Martian Manhunter reinvents the...

Four obsessed women kidnap a K-Pop idol with unexpected and devastating results in this chilling, thought-provoking literary thriller that blends the dark impulsions of Butter with the ratcheting tension of Stephen King's Misery. Four...

Winner of the Akutagawa Prize. “So bracing, so strange and humane... I loved it.” — Sharlene Teo, author of Ponti “Funny... All the people in this novel are alive.” — Hiromi Kawakami, author...

In the aftermath of a national disaster, a couple look back on their marriage and what it cost them in this groundbreaking novel about capitalism’s effect on the human heart. *Guardian best translated fiction of 2025* 'Buzzes with...

From the author of Killing Moon and Blood Ties comes another gripping crime story. A serial killer, a suspended police officer and a self-proclaimed crime writer collide in a chilling exploration of the murderer’s mind.From...

'Pavese's novels are works of an extraordinary depth where one never stops finding new levels, new meanings' -- Italo Calvino. June, 1943. Allied aircraft are bombing Turin; fascist Italy is on its knees. Every evening, after a day's teaching in the...

'Insinuating, haunting and lyrically pervasive' -- The New York Times Book Review.A new translation by Tim ParksTwenty years after making his fortune in America, Eel is drawn back to the closest thing he has to a home: the Piedmontese countryside where...