Japanese, Chinese, Korean & Other Literature Books

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF FALL 2021   Following the international success of Ties and the National Book Award-shortlisted Trick, Domenico Starnone gives readers another searing portrait of human relationships and human folly. Pietro and Teresa’s love...

(Available after December 30th, 2021)A NEW YORK TIMES GLOBETROTTING PICK!   A remarkable and heartbreaking debut novel with the lyrical beauty and emotional resonance of By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept and the thematic complexity...

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Claire Foy. Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist return in this ripped-from-the-headlines, high-octane follow-up to Stieg Larsson's The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest. One of the Best Books of the YearNPR...

The sixth Lisbeth Salander story in the Millennium Series—the crime-fiction phenomenon that has sold more than 90 million copies worldwide.Mikael Blomkvist is trying to reach Lisbeth Salander—the fierce, unstoppable girl with the dragon tattoo. He needs...

New York Times: Best Thriller of the YearPublishers Weekly: Best Thriller of the YearLit Hub: Favorite Book of the YearCrimeReads: Best International Crime Novel of the YearPopSugar: Best Mystery/Thriller of the MonthWinner of the Goncourt Prize and now...

A gripping narrative of friendship and exploration, and an homage to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, an unforgettable writer who touched the lives of millions of readers, and who was able to see the world through the eyes of a child.In the 1920s, long before...

Set during the height of World War II, a powerful and unsettling tale about a woodcutter and his wife, who finds a mysterious parcel thrown from a passing train.Once upon a time in an enormous forest lived a woodcutter and his wife. The woodcutter is...

From the author of One Part Woman and The Story of a Goat, both longlisted for the National Book Award for Translation, comes a poignant and startling novel about love, caste, and intolerance   Profiled in both the New Yorker and the New York Times,...

Tolstoy's epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French invasion of Russia. The fortunes of the Rostovs and the Bolkonskys, of Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei, are intimately...

(Available after March 30th, 2022)“The Hummingbird is a remarkable accomplishment, a true gift to the world.” —Michael Cunningham   “Long considered one of Italy's leading writers, Sandro Veronesi has re-written the family saga. Ardent, gripping, and...

'One of the finest writers of psychological fiction in France today' -- FRANCE MAGAZINE'The latest literary sensation' -- DAILY TELEGRAPH'Dark, smart, strange, compelling - and tremendously French' -- HARRIET LANEMarie owes Michka more than she can say -...

***WINNER OF THE 2018 EISNER AWARD FOR BEST U.S. EDITION OF INTERNATIONAL MATERIAL — ASIA***Yaichi is a work-at-home suburban dad in contemporary Tokyo; formerly married to Natsuki and father to their young daughter, Kana. Their lives suddenly change...

The concluding volume in the story of Yaichi, his daughter Kana, and how their meeting Mike Flanagan—Yaichi's brother-in-law—changes their lives and their perceptions of acceptance of homosexuality in their contemporary Japanese culture.As Mike continues...

Brilliantly entertaining and eerie ghost stories, regarded as major classics in Japan, by the Irish writer and Japanophile Lafcadio Hearn—whose life inspired bestselling writer Monique Truong's novel The Sweetest FruitsA Penguin ClassicIn this collection...

Another of Junji Ito's classics, the sci-fi masterwork Remina tells the chilling tale of a hell star.An unknown planet emerges from inside a wormhole, and its discoverer, Dr. Oguro, christens the body “Remina” after his own daughter. His finding is met...

Soar into the modern classic about a young witch and her clever cat—the inspiration for the Hiyao Miyazaki film that became a phenomenom!Half-witch Kiki never runs from a challenge. So when her thirteenth birthday arrives, she's eager to follow a witch's...

A BEST OF THE MONTH SELECTION BY OPRAH MAGAZINEAN NPR BEST BOOK OF 2021“An eminent South Korean talent makes her American début in this poignant watercolor of a novel . . . Kim is a writer on the move.” —O, The Oprah MagazineAe-ran Kim's My Brilliant...

A group of Koreans are making their way across a disease ravaged landscape--but to what end?To the Warm Horizon shows how in a post-apocalyptic world, humans will still seek purpose, kinship, and even intimacy. Focusing on two young women, Jina and Dori,...

Lee Soho’s debut collection of poems is an experimental lyric bildungsroman that confronts dynamics of abuse as it challenges poetic form. Catcalling exposes and ridicules the violences that the speaker-protagonist Kyungjin encounters as she navigates a...

The prize-winning debut mystery from one of Japan's best-loved crime writersThe K Apartments for Ladies are occupied by over one hundred unmarried women, once young and lively, now grown and old—and in some cases, evil.Their residence conceals a secret...