Japanese, Chinese, Korean & Other Literature Books

Archived in the 'My Documents' folder on award-winning Chilean author Alejandro Zambra's desktop are eleven stories that together form a cartography of contemporary solitude. Whether chronicling the attempts of a migraine-afflicted writer to quit smoking...

A powerful, unsettling portrait of ordinary family life in Cuba, Carlos Manuel Álvarez's debut novel The Fallen is a masterful portrayal of a society in free fall. Diego, the son, is disillusioned and bitter about the limited freedoms his country...

In The Things We’ve Seen, his most ambitious and accomplished novel to date, Agustín Fernández Mallo captures the strangeness and interconnectedness of human existence in the twenty-first century. A writer travels to the small...

Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2025. On losing her father, Teresa returns to a small town on the Greek coast – the same place she visited when grieving her mother nine years ago. She immerses herself again in the life of the town, observing the...

Animalia retraces the history of a modest peasant family through the twentieth century as they develop their small plot of land into an intensive pig farm. In an environment dominated by the omnipresence of animals, five generations endure the...

Scenes from a Childhood is the latest collection of stories by Jon Fosse, one of Norway's most celebrated authors and playwrights, famed for the minimalist and unsettling quality of his writing. In the title work, a loosely autobiographical...

Living Things follows four recent graduates – Munir, G, Ernesto and Álex – who travel from Madrid to the south of France to work the grape harvest. Except things don’t go as planned: they end up working...

In 1506, Michelangelo – a young but already renowned sculptor – is invited by the sultan of Constantinople to design a bridge over the Golden Horn. The sultan has offered, alongside an enormous payment, the promise of immortality,...

An obsessive and revealing self-portrait of a remarkable woman humiliated by the circumstances of her birth and by her physical appearance, La Bâtarde relates Violette Leduc’s long search for her own identity through a series of...

'The great French feminist writer we need to remember' Guardian'Violette Leduc's novels are works of genius and also a bit peculiar' Deborah Levy, from the introductionAn old woman lives alone in a tiny attic flat in Paris, counting out coffee beans...

A comic thriller where, too many craft beers and one crappy punch later, a dutiful trip back home to family spirals into a baffling whirlwind of murder, pills and fraud.  After many peaceful years abroad, JP has returned home to Mexico to visit...

‘That the music may be polyphonic is no grounds for not listening,’ scribbles a man for his stone-deaf friend. In Is Beauty Good there are many such voices. People talk to various listeners, even to silent ones. They talk to...

A woman replays her abandonment by her mother, who is sometimes addressed as a male mother-god. She is also abandoned by her lover, to whom she is in thrall. She tries repeatedly to make or receive phone calls with the beloved figures, without success...

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The extraordinary rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize–winning author of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude—a moving tale of female desire and abandon...

A witty, deadpan novel about modern relationships, pets, and living as a single woman; for fans of Sayaka Murata, offbeat humor, and sharp social observationIn this skewed, mordantly funny Japanese novel, two women navigate aging and relationships in...

'A work of art...altogether a joyous and lovely thing' New York TimesSet in a remote fishing village in Japan, The Sound of Waves is a timeless story of first love.It tells of Shinji, a young fisherman and Hatsue, the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest...

'Explosive, absurd...with plenty of oh la la and even more zut alors' The TimesWHEN IT COMES TO REVOLUTION, EVERYONE PAYSIn Paris, the Nada gang – a small cell of left-wing radicals – hatch a plan to kidnap the U.S...

Welcome to Taipei, Taiwan. The Chinese Civil War is now long over, but its shadow still haunts the city’s lost souls.On the eve of her retirement, a dancer recalls the gentle boy she met in her youth. She loved him then – and never saw him...

The social contract is non-negotiable. The woman must be a mother. The woman must be desirable. The woman must be a caregiver.When Anna gives birth, she surrenders completely to motherhood, reshaping her body, identity and purpose, shielding herself from...

The English translation of Fatma Aydemir's award-winning and bestselling family saga. For thirty years, Hüseyin has worked in Germany, taking every extra shift and carefully saving, even as he provides for his wife and four children. Finally, he has...