Japanese, Chinese, Korean & Other Literature Books

(Available after November 30th, 2022)“Cho Nam-Joo’s Saha is its own Orwellian vision: bleak and berserk, brilliant and beautiful.”—Hamilton Cain, Oprah DailyPraise for Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982:“Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982—possesses the urgency and immediacy of...

'That’s how it generally is with Aeja’s stories. They’re as potent as a putrid peach. Listening to her words your head starts to droop with their sticky juice trickling down your ears, until all you can do is succumb to the saccharine flow. From one of...

The Ultimate Guide to K-Beauty SecretsThe Korean Skincare Bible is much more than a beauty product guide it is a lifestyle,a ritual and a philosophy. This K-bible is the ultimate no-nonsense guide to daily Korean beauty care,in it you will find...

Icelandic detective Elma faces mortal danger as she investigates the death of a young man in a mysterious Akranes house fire, and a Dutch au pair's perfect placement turns deadly ... The breathtaking third instalment in the award-winning Forbidden...

Finalist for the 2022 National Book Award for Translated Literature.A blazing new story collection that will make you feel like the house is collapsing in on you, from the 3 time International Booker Prize finalist, "lead[ing] a vanguard of Latin...

(Available after November 30th, 2022)The exhilarating English-language debut from celebrated Ecuadorian author Gabriela Ponce, Blood Red centers the female body in a radical exploration of desire, choice, and consequences.In a torrent of...

Tomura is startled by the hypnotic sound of a piano being tuned in his school. It seeps into his soul and transports him to the forests, dark and gleaming, that surround his beloved mountain village. From that moment, he is determined to discover more...

'A magnificent writer' -- KARIN SLAUGHTERA murdered woman. A missing child. And a father intent on revenge.On a cold day in Reykjavik, a baby goes missing from her pram. When the child's blanket washes up on the beach, and the mother is found dead,...

From the acclaimed author of The Hole and The Factory, a thrilling and mysterious novel that explores fertility, masculinity, and marriage in contemporary Japan   In three interconnected scenes, Hiroko Oyamada revisits the same set of characters at...

From “one of the most distinguished writers of modern Italy” (New York Review of Books), a classic novel of society in the midst of a war.This powerful novel is set against the background of Italy from 1939 to 1944, from the anxious months...

A masterpiece of European literature that blends family memoir and fictionAn Italian family, sizable, with its routines and rituals, crazes, pet phrases, and stories, doubtful, comical, indispensable, comes to life in the pages of Natalia...

A blizzard is approaching Siglufjörður, and that can only mean one thing…When the body of a nineteen-year-old girl is found on the main street of Siglufjörður, Police Inspector Ari Thór battles a violent Icelandic storm in an increasingly dangerous hunt...

'I have so much and my feeling for her devours everything, I have so much and without her everything is nothing.'The Sorrows of Young Werther propelled Goethe to instant fame when it first appeared in 1774. Goethe drew on his own unhappy experiences to...

Galdos's four-part Fortunata and Jacinta (1886-7), the masterpiece among his almost 80 novels, tells the turbulent story of two women, their husbands and their lovers, set against the intricate web of dynastic alliances and class contrasts of Madrid in...

Young Nour is a North African desert tribesman. It is 1909, and as the First World War looms Nour's tribe - the Blue Men - are forced from their lands by French colonial invaders. Spurred on by thirst, hunger, suffering, they seek guidance from a great...

One of the Guardian's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, an addictive and searingly honest novel about childhood, family and grief. Karl Ove Knausgaard writes about his life with painful honesty. He writes about his childhood and teenage years, his...

(Available after 3-20 days)Winner of 2018 National Book Award in Translated Literature   Library Journal Best Books of 2018 Yoko Tawada’s new novel is a breathtakingly light-hearted meditation on mortality and fully displays what Rivka Galchen has called...

INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER • Set in Ukraine and Finland, a captivating story of intrigue, betrayal, and murder in the global fertility market—from acclaimed writer Sofi Oksanen, "an international publishing sensation frequently likened to Stieg Larsson"...

(Available after June 30th, 2023)The startling, vivid debut novel by Alexei Navalny’s press secretary, following a woman who is arrested at an anti-corruption rally in Moscow and sentenced to ten days in a special detention center, where she shares a...

A small masterpiece of contained emotion and psychological nuance, Debre's masterly novel of sacrifice documents the self-sufficient existence of a mother separated from her child by a bitter ex-partner. When Constance told her ex-husband that she...