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Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop: A Novel by Hwang Bo-reum, Shanna Tan (Translator)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱799.00Empire: ₱549.00AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER.INDIE NEXT PICK * Debutiful Most Anticipated Book of 2024 * Powell's Pick of the Month.The Korean smash hit available for the first time in English, a slice-of-life novel for readers of Matt Haig's The Midnight Library and... -
Great Japanese Stories: 10 Parallel Texts by Various, Jay Rubin (Editor)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱899.00Empire: ₱634.00A captivating selection of short stories in the original Japanese alongside their English translationsThis new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories celebrates some of the very best Japanese... -
The Artificial Silk Girl - Penguin Modern Classics by Irmgard Keun, Katharina von Ankum (Translator)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00Empire: ₱579.00A hilarious, tragic novel about a would-be movie star in 1920s Berlin, from the author of Child of All NationsDoris is going to be a big star. Wearing a stolen fur coat and recently fired from her office job, she takes an all-night train to Berlin... -
Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱799.00Empire: ₱599.00In the seaside city of Kamakura, a student is drawn to an enigmatic older man who swims at the same beach. The man becomes his Sensei. Against a backdrop of the rapid modernisation of Japan, their relationship endures - until one day, the young man... -
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱1,499.00Empire: ₱849.00As Seen on BBC Between the Covers.This European masterpiece from the Nobel prizewinner explores the lure and degeneration of ideas in an introverted community on the eve of the First World War. Hans Castorp is 'a perfectly ordinary, if engaging young... -
The Little Sparrow Murders by Seishi Yokomizo, Bryan Karetnyk (Translator)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱799.00Empire: ₱648.00“With a pinch of John Dickson Carr and a dash of Agatha Christie, solver of impossible crimes” Kosuke Kindaichi returns for another murder mystery (The New York Times)As several bodies are discovered staged in bizarre poses echoing the lyrics... -
Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie (Translator)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00Empire: ₱499.00WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREA New York Times Notable BookIn her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion.Blurring the line between fact and... -
White Nights - Little Clothbound Classics by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
MSRP: ₱699.00Empire: ₱579.00Introducing 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,... -
The Full Moon Coffee Shop: A Novel by Mai Mochizuki, Jesse Kirkwood (Translator)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱1,099.00Empire: ₱879.00Translated from the Japanese bestseller, this charming and magical novel, inspired by the myth of cats returning favors to those who care for them, reminds us that it's never too late to follow our stars.In Japan, cats are a symbol of good luck. As the... -
I Went To See My Father: A Novel by Kyung-sook Shin, Anton Hur (Translator)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱999.00Empire: ₱636.00An instant bestseller in Korea and the follow up to the international bestseller, Please Look After Mom; centering on a woman’s efforts to reconnect with her aging father, uncovering long-held family secrets.Two years after losing her daughter in a... -
First Love by Ivan Turgenev, Isaiah Berlin (translator)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱899.00Empire: ₱599.00When the down-at-heel Princess Zasyekin moves next door to the country estate of Vladimir Petrovich's parents, he instantly and overwhelmingly falls in love with his new neighbour's daughter, Zinaida. But the capricious young woman already has many... -
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
MSRP: ₱822.00Empire: ₱579.00The surprise hit of the summer and winner of Japan's prestigious Akutagawa Prize, Convenience Store Woman is the incomparable story of Keiko Furukura, a thirty-six-year-old Tokyo resident who has been working at the Hiiromachi "Smile Mart" for the past... -
The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱699.00Empire: ₱558.00The Sunday Times and New York Times Bestseller. A couple in their thirties live in a small rented cottage in a quiet part of Tokyo. They work at home as freelance writers. They no longer have very much to say to one another. One day a... -
The House of the Dead / The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱599.00Empire: ₱363.00Translated by Constance Garnett with an introduction by Anthony Briggs. Dostoevsky's fascination for mental breakdown and violence (20 murders in his four main novels) was based on his own life, and these two unmistakably autobiographical works bear this... -
Bookshop Woman by Nanako Hanada
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱1,499.00Empire: ₱799.00Quirky, heartwarming and witty, Hanada's exquisitely written memoir of looking for love and connection in modern Tokyo is an irresistible treat for all bibliophiles. This book is a love story to books. A love story to climbing all the way down a... -
Hell Screen - Little Clothbound Classics by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00Empire: ₱579.00Introducing 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,... -
Must I Go by Yiyun Li
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00Empire: ₱579.00“One of our major novelists” (Salman Rushdie) tells the story of a woman reflecting on her uncompromising life, and the life of a former lover, in this provocative novel.“Yiyun Li is one of my favorite writers, and Must I... -
Mary - Penguin Modern Classics by Vladimir Nabokov
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00Empire: ₱579.00'Nabokov can move you to laughter in the way that masters can - to laughter that is near to tears' --Guardian. Lev Ganin is a young officer sharing a boarding house in Berlin with a host of Russian émigrés. Alone in his room, he dreams of... -
Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder by Asako Yuzuki, Polly Barton (Translator)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱1,599.00Empire: ₱926.00Combining a distinct, offbeat literary style with a propulsive premise, Asako Yuzuki is another deeply engaging author to come out of Japan. Centered around food, the distinctive and downright fun voice alone makes this stand apart; add in characters... -
Paradais by Fernanda Melchor, Sophie Hughes (Translator)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱999.00Empire: ₱699.00Author of the acclaimed novel Hurricane Season, Fernanda Melchor leads us into a different kind of hell: paradise Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, lonely, overweight, and addicted to...