Japanese, Chinese, Korean & Other Literature Books

From the acclaimed author of Miss Burma, longlisted for the National Book Award and the Women’s Prize for Fiction, comes an immersive and searing story of two women, their marriages, and the rivalry between them Tessa is a successful writer who...

Finally published, this great lost novel from the titan of Latin American fiction is a masterful dissection of sensuality, desire and regret that centres on a married woman who takes a new lover on one day every year. Sitting alone, overlooking the...

The new historical crime thriller in the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling series, perfect for fans of C. J. Sansom and Hilary Mantel Prague, 1588. A COURT IN TURMOIL The court of the Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II, is a haven for scientists, astrologers and...

By the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny, in another thrilling translation from the Korean by Anton Hur, Your Utopiais full of tales of loss and discovery, idealism and dystopia, death and immortality. “Nothing concentrates the mind...

A young couple are entangled in a nightmare spiral of lies when they pretend to be someone else.  Exquisitely dark psychological suspense by the international bestselling author of The Bird Tribunal 'A delightfully insightful and wicked little read...

Lisbeth is back, now at the hands of Karin Smirnoff, who brings her distinctive style to the series. That said, this is still distinctly in the vein of the rest of the series. It’s high-octane, brutal, vivid and fans will feel right at home. NEW...

A harrowing, unforgettable masterpiece by the winner of the Booker International PrizeA confession, a lament, a mad gush of grief and obsession, My Heavenly Favorite is the remarkable and chilling successor to Lucas Rijneveld’s international...

From the international bestselling author of The Phone Box at the Edge of the World: a powerful, moving novel of grief, hope, friendship and love based around a real archive on an island in Japan, where people travel to record their heartbeats.To find...

“Condé’s story is rich and colorful and glorious. It sprawls over continents and centuries to find its way into the reader’s heart.” —Maya Angelou“A wondrous novel” (The New York Times) by the...

From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, here is a hypnotic, introspective novel about an affluent Japanese family navigating buried secrets, and their young house guest who uncovers them.In the spring of 1972,...

Kyokutei Bakin's Nansō Satomi Hakkenden is one of the monuments of Japanese literature. This multigenerational samurai saga was one of the most popular and influential books of the nineteenth century and has been adapted many times into film, television,...

Perfect for fans of They Both Die at the End and You’ve Reached Sam, this gripping, atmospheric YA novel follows a teen with a mysterious condition that transports her to the past when she smells certain scents linked to specific memories...

The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • Longlisted for the NBCC Barrios Book in Translation Prize • From the best-selling author of Three Strong Women comes a thrilling novel about a triple homicide that dredges up unsettling memories...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2023 “The great voice of the Caribbean.” —Jury, International Booker 2023 “French novelist Condé (Waiting for the Waters to Rise) delivers an ingenious bildungsroman of a...

Shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize • One of The Walrus' Best Fall Books of 2023 A funny, fast-paced, and poignant take on Franco-African history, as told through the eyes of three African security guards in Paris.  All...

Published for the first time in English, the sweeping debut novel set in bohemian Paris, by the author of international bestseller The Eighth Life. In 1953, a teenage girl, Jeanne Saré, jumps in front of a train at the Gare du Nord station. She...

The dead wreak revenge on the living, paintings come alive, spectral brides possess mortal men and a priest devours human flesh in these chilling Japanese ghost stories retold by a master of the supernatural. Lafcadio Hearn drew on the phantoms and...

One of Poland's most engrossing twentieth-century epics, by the 1924 winner of the Nobel Prize for LiteratureIn the village of Lipce, scandal, romance and drama crackle in every hearth. Boryna, a widower and the village's wealthiest farmer, has taken the...

A logosophistic approach to one of the most original novelists of our time.

VINTAGE CLASSICS FRENCH SERIES: stunning flapped paperback editions showcasing the bestselling, most acclaimed French writers of the twentieth century. Madame Bovary is one of the greatest, most beguiling novels ever written. Emma Bovary is an avid...