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Coin Locker Babies by Ryu Murakami
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱899.00₱679.00'A cyberpunk coming-of-age tale' -- Japan TimesTwo babies are left in a Tokyo station coin locker and survive against the odds, but their lives are forever tainted by this inauspicious start.Raised amidst the outcasts and misfits of Toxitown, they carve... -
Omoiyari: The Japanese Art of Compassion by Erin Niimi Longhurst
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱899.00₱679.00‘Omoiyari is a form of selfless compassion – putting yourself in the shoes of others, and from their perspective anticipating their needs, acting in a way that might make them at ease, happy or comfortable.’ This book will help you... -
Gunmetal Gray (Gray Man, #6) by Mark Greaney
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱899.00₱660.00THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Mark Greaney, the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan novels, delivers another breakneck thriller following the world’s deadliest assassin—the Gray... -
In Praise of Shadows: Vintage Design Edition by Junichiro Tanizaki
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱999.00₱730.00A fully illustrated, beautifully produced edition of Junichiro Tanizaki's wise and evocative essay on Japanese culture.'We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another... -
Picnic in the Storm by Yukiko Motoya, Asa Yoneda (Translator)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱799.00₱579.00Winner of the Akutagawa Prize and the Kenzaburo Oe PrizeA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice'In Yukiko Motoya's delightful new story collection, the familiar becomes unfamiliar . . . Certainly the style will remind readers of the... -
The End of the Moment We Had by Toshiki Okada, Samuel Malissa (Translator)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱540.00Two brilliant, multi-layered stories from the winner of the Kenzaburo Oe Prize: part of our Japanese novella series, showcasing the best contemporary Japanese writing.On the eve of the Iraq War, a man and a woman meet in a nightclub in Tokyo. They go to... -
The Bear and the Paving Stone by Toshiyuki Horie, Geraint Howells (Translator)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱799.00₱499.00Winner of the prestigious Akutagawa Prize, three dream-like tales of memory and war: part of our Japanese novella series, showcasing the best contemporary Japanese writingA Japanese man, far from home, travels the countryside of Normandy with a friend -... -
Weasels in the Attic by Hiroko Oyamada, David Boyd (Translator)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱799.00₱449.00From 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... -
Kusamakura - Penguin Classics by Natsume Soseki
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱556.00A stunning new English translation—the first in more than forty years—of a major novel by the father of modern Japanese fictionNatsume Soseki's Kusamakura—meaning “grass pillow”—follows its nameless young... -
Botchan - Penguin Classics by Natsume Soseki
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱499.00Botchan is a modern young man from the Tokyo metropolis, sent to the ultra-traditional Matsuyama district as a Maths teacher after his the death of his parents. Cynical, rebellious and immature, Botchan finds himself facing several tests, from the pupils... -
Have You Eaten?: Deliciously Simple Asian Cooking for Every Mood by Verna Gao
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱1,599.00₱1,179.00A beautifully personal cookbook of more than 70 easy and inspiring Chinese and East Asian recipes for every occasion.Verna Gao is throwing a Chinese dumpling party and everyone is invited—so roll out the dough and learn to pleat like a Hangzhou... -
Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death by Yoel Hoffmann
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱999.00₱779.00"A wonderful introduction the Japanese tradition of jisei, this volume is crammed with exquisite, spontaneous verse and pithy, often hilarious, descriptions of the eccentric and committed monastics who wrote the poems." —Tricycle: The Buddhist... -
The End of August by Yu Miri
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱1,399.00₱1,079.00From the National Book Award winning author, an extraordinary, ground-breaking, epic multi-generational novel about a Korean family living under Japanese occupation.In 1930s Japanese-occupied Korea, Lee Woo-cheol was a running prodigy and a contender for... -
To Live by Yu Hua
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱999.00₱759.00Originally banned in China but later named one of that nation’s most influential books, a searing novel that portrays one man’s transformation from the spoiled son of a landlord to a kindhearted peasant. “A work of astounding... -
The Snow Ghost and Other Tales: Classic Japanese Ghost Stories by Lafcadio Hearn, Yei Theodora Ozaki, Richard Gordon Smith
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱1,299.00₱947.00A spine-tinglingly beautiful hardback collection of some of Japan's scariest yet still compelling classic ghost storiesEnter the haunted world of Ancient Japan in this spine-tingling collection of ghostly tales told and retold across the centuries.From... -
Tao Te Ching - Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition by Lao Tzu
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱1,099.00₱879.00The acclaimed translation of Taoism's founding text in a beautiful Penguin Classics Deluxe editionThe most translated book in the world after the Bible, the Tao Te Ching, or 'Book of the Way', is the essential text of Taoism, one of the three... -
Poems by Wang Wei
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱579.00Wang Wei, one of Chinese literature's greatest poets, divided his time between the court and his country estate, where he drew inspiration from the mountains and solitude. His poetry affirms his belief in a whole natural order, and his delicately... -
Li Po and Tu Fu: Poems - Penguin Classics by Li Po
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱899.00₱679.00The poems of two of China’s most influential classical poets: Tu Fu, called “China’s Shakespeare” (BBC), and Li Po, the subject of Ha Jin’s The Banished Immortal and “China’s most beloved poet”... -
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea (Vintage Classics Japanese Series) by Yukio Mishima
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱899.00₱649.00A novel from "one of the outstanding writers of the world” (The New York Times) that explores the vicious nature of youth that is sometimes mistaken for innocence. • “A major work of art... -
Once and Forever: The Tales of Kenji Miyazawa by Kenji Miyazawa, John Bester (Translator)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱899.00₱731.00It is time that Kenji Miyazawa, long recognized as a writer of genius in his own country, enjoyed the same reputation abroad. Are his fables, in which acorns quarrel and flowers fret about losing their looks, written for children or adults? They are for...