Japanese, Chinese, Korean & Other Literature Books

Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for FictionWinner of 2015 Canada Reads PrizeWinner of Grand Prix littéraire ArchambaultFinalist for the 2012 Soctiabank Giller PrizeFinalist for the 2018 New Academy Prize in LiteratureLonglisted for the...

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.”...

When the stakes are at their highest, how low would you go? _____________   Shogo Hatano has beaten thousands of applicants to become one of six final candidates in the running for a graduate position at Japan's most exclusive tech company. Only one...

A gorgeous deluxe paperback of Japan's greatest murder mystery, from the father of Japanese classic crime and author of Murder at the Black Cat Café.“The premise alone is dazzling [and] the solution to this mystery came as a complete...

SQUID GAME meets MEAN GIRLS in this hit survival drama about keeping up and staying (barely) alive in a girl-eat-girl Tokyo - now with 100,000 copies soldSQUID GAME MEETS MEAN GIRLSTHE #1 JAPANESE HIT ABOUT KEEPING UP AND STAYING...

In a nameless city torn apart by civil war, a teenage sniper has only one goal: to fire the perfect shot. He sublimates himself into his weapon, learns to maintain impassivity, controls his breath, listens to his body and the beat of his heart. Lying in...

Late spring settles over Edo with a deceptive gentleness – soft rain, a drifting haze, the first warmth of summer. But it is not only fallen blossom that gathers in the streets and woodland of Edo city – there too a terrible villainy lies...

Cats always prove to be the best medicine in the wonderful third volume in the the award-winning, bestselling Japanese series, The Kokoro Cat Clinic_________READER LOVE FOR WELCOME TO THE KOKORO CAT CLINIC***** ‘The whole thing is...

Like a comforting sip of the smoothest coffee, immerse yourself in the second book in the Torunka Cafe series with three more miraculous tales where happy endings are guaranteed. Satoshi Yagisawa, the author of the international bestselling...

Welcome to Tenderness. Our doors are always open. Need a pick-me-up? Visit the Tenderness convenience store in Mojiko, Kitakyushu. A sweet treat to lift your spirits. A quiet place to talk over a warm meal. A kind word when you need it most. The sound of...

J. L. Carr's beautiful portrayal of the countryside and the healing it brings, in an irresistible Little Clothbound Classics edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith'One of the best books I've ever read' Richard Osman'Unlike anything else in modern...

Two sisters must find their way in a world designed to confine them.Marcelle is the elder sister, a woman whose ambitions focus on becoming the companion of a 'man of genius'. Marguerite is the younger sister, a girl whose sanity depends on breaking free...

Kenzaburo Oe, the winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature, is internationally acclaimed as one of the most important and influential post-World War II writers, known for his powerful accounts of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and his own struggle...

'Brilliant, hilarious, addictive. My new literary obsession' ALICE SLATER'Fresh and vital . . . Lots of fun' MARIE CLAIREFor anyone who has ever had a crush, welcome to your new personal obsession.Mika is about to turn twenty-five, and all she has...

Experience a BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Eileen Chang, ‘a giant of modern Chinese literature’, in this breathtaking, newly translated collection of her most masterful stories on love, regret and nostalgia. From one of the great Chinese authors of...

A startling new collection of three never-before-translated stories, from the author of I Who Have Never Known MenIn the wake of some unfathomable war, a woman wanders the forest, forbidden from ever leaving its strange depths. As part of her rigid...

The sixth book in the multi-million-copy bestselling series about a cosy Japanese cafe that offers its visitors the chance to travel back in time.In a special seat in a fabled Tokyo cafe, you're offered something irresistible - not just a warm,...

The Other Side tells of a dream kingdom which becomes a nightmare, of a journey to Pearl, a mysterious city created deep in Asia, which is also a journey to the depths of the subconcious, or as Kubin himself called it, 'a sort of Baedeker for those lands...