Japanese, Chinese, Korean & Other Literature Books

In this lyrical, exuberant tale, acclaimed Turkish author Elif Shafak, author of The Island of Missing Trees (a Reese's Book Club Pick), incarnates Rumi's timeless message of love.Ella Rubenstein is forty years old and unhappily married when...

A near-future tale about love, life, and friendship in a world that’s falling apart. Chilco is the name of Pascale’s home island. It is also the Mapudungun word for fuchsia: a word that evokes tropical lushness, wetness, the deep greenness of...

“Don’t let its French prize-winning status fool you: this is a pleasurable, even filthy summer romance . . . about motorbikes, moody teens and misplaced desire on the Moroccan coast.” – The Times.A coming-of-age tale and...

'Thrillingly addictive, magnificent, luxurious . . . as staggering and absorbing as a great 19th-century novel' -- Telegraph. 'I loved it and it had been a long time since I had read anything that gave me such life and joy' -- Natalia Ginzburg The...

A major new novel set in nineteenth-century New Orleans by the author of Signs Preceding the End of the World.   New Orleans, 1853. A young exile named Benito Juárez disembarks at a fetid port city at the edge of a swamp. Years later, he...

Tereza and Ivan share secrets. Tereza is now in art school away from the town where she grew up. Ivan is a teacher and artist. Tereza is now nineteen, Ivan is fifty-seven. They have known each other for years. Tereza shares her secrets with her friend...

Lying on the floor scrolling through social media; wrapped up in bed taking your second nap of the day; lounging on the sofa watching TV. You are not lazy, you are on energy saving mode. In a world obsessed with work and productivity, I'm Not Lazy,...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • In the electrifying first installment of the New York Times bestselling series, Harry Hole of the Oslo Crime Squad is dispatched to Sydney to observe a murder case. As he circles closer to the killer, Harry...

An engrossing literary novel about a family mystery, revenge, and forgiveness by Lars Mytting, the bestselling and award-winning author of Norwegian Wood and The Bell in the Lake. An international bestseller and longlisted for the...

The final novel of Hermann Hesse, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, The Glass Bead Game is a fascinating tale of the complexity of modern life as well as a classic of modern literature   Set in the 23rd...

Lars Mytting’s engrossing epic novel The Bell in the Lake—a #1 bestseller in Norway—is the story of a young woman whose fate plays out against her village’s mystical church bells.As long as people could remember, the stave...

Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award. Named One of the Top 10 Thrillers to Read This Summer by Time Magazine. Misery meets The Vegetarian in this psychological thriller about loneliness and the dark truths we try to bury.In...

The second of four volumes of short stories which reflect Somerset Maugham's wry perception of human foibles and gift for evoking drama from a sense of time and place. Set in Malaya, America and England, they include "Flotsam and Jetsam," "The Man With...

These 30 short stories, comprising Somerset Maugham's first collection, are set in locations ranging from England, France and Spain to the silver sands of the South Pacific. They include "Rain," "The Three Fat Women of Antibes," "The Voice of the...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE SWEDISH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD • A profoundly moving debut novel that follows an elderly man’s struggle to maintain autonomy over his own life: an emotional story of love, friendship, fatherhood,...

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE.WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD.'An extraordinary achievement.' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT'Fabulously rich, highly compelling.' INDEPENDENT'Chock-full of sublimity and sin...

Longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature. Urgent investigative essays covering a wide range of humanity in Brazil, from the Amazon to the favelas Eliane Brum is a star journalist in Brazil, known for her polyphonic writing...

These four novellas—Family Happiness, The Kreutzer Sonata, The Cossacks, and Hadji Murad—each unique in form, show Tolstoy at his creative height. This edition uses the acclaimed Maude translations, (except for Family Happiness,...

A gorgeously illustrated picture book for adults—with two gatefold pages inside—by Nobelist Olga Tokarczuk and illustrator Joanna Concejo, creators of The Lost Soul.A devastating putdown of our self-obsessed, superficial social media...

A raucous, macabre tale of failure from the filmmaker-turned-writer whose work has garnered cultish attention in recent years. Georges Maman is a down-and-out actor sinking into despair and no longer able to scrape by, failing to make his mark even in...