Japanese, Chinese, Korean & Other Literature Books

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice.“Erotic, paranoiac and lightly fantastical.” —The Wall Street Journal.“Ismail Kadare's readers are astonished every year when the Nobel committee overlooks him. . . . A Girl in...

Shipwrecks, dive bars, possession, and science—this is where contemporary horrors and ancient terrors meet. In Fresh Dirt from the Grave, a hillside is “an emerald saddle teeming with evil and beauty.” It is this collision of harshness...

A New York Review Books Original.“Tolstaya carves indelible people who roam the imagination long after the book is put down.” –Time.Tatyana Tolstaya’s short stories—with their unpredictable fairy-tale plots, appealingly...

Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith Filled with rich description and luxurious beauty, these ten tales of...

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics,...

Longlisted for the International Booker Prize.The Wall Street Journal, A Best Book of the Year.Using a sophisticated and literary version of the ever-popular game of telephone to examine the relationship of writers with tyranny, Ismail Kadare reflects on...

** A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2024 **NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, THE SUNDAY TIMES, AND THE FINANCIAL TIMES.A searing debut set in a modern India simmering with the tension of growing religious intolerance, by a major new...

The compelling new novel from National Book Award finalist Yoko Ogawa is the story of a young girl's curiosity and courage, an unconventional family, and their pygmy hippo.THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR...

Set against the glamorous backdrop of Venice, Cannes and Paris, Gallant's debut novel weaves a tale of family and identity as a divorcée's daughter attempts to break free of her mother's itinerant lifestyle. With a foreword by Brandon Taylor. An...

Growing up in Rostock, in the north of Germany, Walter has a comfortable upbringing: quiet and content, he spends his days scheming with school friends and resisting the torment of his older siblings. But, as the country rolls toward war, the attitudes...

"The novel of the decade, if not of the century."—Christophe Claro. Francis Servain Mirkovic, a French-born Croat who has been working for the French Intelligence Services for fifteen years, is traveling by train from Milan to Rome. He's carrying a...

'Tis the season for an enchanting tale of sisterhood, community and resilience during one magical holiday month.Beautifully told with humor and tenderness, a Norwegian Christmas tale of sisterhood, financial hardship, and far-off dreams, acclaimed by...

Kafka's most celebrated tale of a commercial salesman unexpectedly freed from the drudgery of his job by his inexplicable transformation into a huge insect is an enduring masterwork of dark humour, existentialist dread and sublime sense of drama. This...

This multigenerational novel spanning 100 years chronicles change — changing land, people, and the world around them. A searing novel of language, tradition and loss told in verse, Aednan is grounded in the lives and land of the Sámi, the...

What would you do if, when you were ten, you were left to fend for yourself, and, in order to survive, you had to undertake a harrowing journey all the way from Afghanistan to Italy? In early 2002, Enaiatollah Akbari’s village fell prey to the...

“The people in The Third Realm are as vivid and convincing as Knausgaard’s autobiographical persona . . . Enthralling . . . you can’t stop reading.” —Lev Grossman, The Atlantic.“One of the most genuinely...

THE JAPANESE CRIME FICTION CLASSIC: A prize-winning railway murder mystery set in 1960s Japan—for fans of Agatha Christie and Seicho Matsumoto!Full of devious twists and turns, this brilliant puzzle mystery is considered to be one of the greatest...

Elegant, slippery, and provocative, Antiquity is a queer Lolita story by prize-winning Swedish author Hanna Johansson—a story of desire, power, obsession, observation, and taboo.On a Greek island rich with ancient beauty, a lonely woman in her...

A freaky tale of isolation and the porous membranes between us, Rebecca Gisler’s slim novel renders a collapsing world with equal parts aversion, fascination, and tenderness—for readers of Ottessa Moshfegh and Sayaka Murata.At an age...

Violence and desire shatter the smooth surface of the everyday in this exceptional collection of blackly comic short stories.A game between a woman’s father and husband simmers and boils into scalding danger; a daughter creates an elaborate feast...