Japanese, Chinese, Korean & Other Literature Books

'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...

Never before translated short stories by the legendary Ágota Kristóf'One of the 20th century's greatest writers' Camilla Grudova'Pure genius' Max PorterI don’t care: it’s not even pretty. The song is sad, and old, so old.I Don't...

This is the story of a young woman who is spirited away to St. Petersburg from Copenhagen by a lovestruck admirer. When she dies after the Russian Revolution, her ashes are carried back to Denmark, igniting a chain reaction of further stories, told and...

In The Penguin Book of the International Short Story, writers from different nations, languages and sensibilities come together in a globe-spanning and long overdue tour of modern fiction. In ‘Super-Frog Saves Tokyo’, Haruki...

'A Finnish masterpiece of autofiction... Saisio's Helsinki trilogy is a dreamy, complex and therefore so very human portrait of the formation of a great artist' Financial TimesA riveting, funny coming-of-age story: the second volume in Pirkko...

A dizzying tale of lust and murder in the shady world of Tokyo’s cabaret bars, from one of Japan's greatest mystery writers—now with a striking new cover design.“An outstanding puzzle mystery.” - Publishers Weekly, starred...

A heartwarming treat for all fans of DallerGut Dream Department Store and Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Dongwon Seo's charming novel introduces a mysterious bar where the stories of everyone's lives are just one sip away...

Unpublished in Bulgakov's own lifetime, Black Snow (also known as A Theatrical Novel) - here presented in a new translation - is peppered with darkly comic set pieces and draws on its author's own bitter experience as a playwright with the Moscow Arts...

The ultimate back-stage novel and a brilliant satire by the author of The Master and Margarita on his ten-year love-hate relationship with Stanislavsky, Method Acting and the Moscow Arts Theatre.

Stop Dead: The dark, chilling new instalment in the addictive Iceland Mysteries series…Katrín Júlíusdóttir, translated by Larissa Kyzer When detective-in-training Sigurdís interrupts her studies in the US to...

True love or easy money ― which would you choose? Fresh from graduating with her master’s in philosophy, Anna is shocked when a career counsellor tells her she has ‘no special skills’. Desperate for work and financial independence, she...

A mesmerising lyrical debut from one of Latin America’s most electrifying voices, immerses readers in the life of Ainhoa, a young girl coming of age in the vibrant Afro-descendant community of Esmeraldas, Ecuador, during the turbulent 1990s...

This central masterpiece of modern Japanese literature recounts the decline and fall of a couple’s fortunes and a husband’s desperate attempt to find spiritual salvation.“A sensitive, skillfully written novel by the most widely read...

‘Captures the heartbreak of loss and the resilience of hope . . . unforgettable’ Service95 A tender story of civil war and displacement from a prize-winning novelist who left Chile for Norway as a child refugee. I’m frightened of...

'A wonderful, pungent, vivid and short collection of stories, part gothic horror, part sci-fi, which grew out of the jungle and the earth and the bloody history of South America.' MARK HADDON   'A bold, electric collection from a voice you won't...

The charming and original story of a small, declining community’s struggle to survive in the shadow of an all-consuming metropolis, from from the multi-million copy bestselling author of The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window...