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The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories by Jay Rubin
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱1,400.00₱779.00A major new collection of Japanese short stories, many appearing in English for the first time, with an introduction by Haruki Murakami A Penguin Classic. This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates the art of the Japanese short story,... -
The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱799.00₱549.00For a generation adjusting painfully to the demands of a modern industrial and commercial society, Asia came to represent an alternative vision of the good life: aesthetically austere, socially aristocratic, and imbued with spirituality. The Book of... -
Terminal Boredom: Stories by Izumi Suzuki
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱1,099.00₱679.00Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Thrillist, The Millions, Frieze, and Metropolis JapanThe first English language publication of the work of Izumi Suzuki, a legend of Japanese science fiction and a countercultural iconAt turns nonchalantly hip and... -
Moshi Moshi : A Novel by Banana Yoshimoto
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱899.00₱756.00"A beautiful translation...Yoshimoto deploys a magically Japanese light touch to emotionally and existentially tough subject matter: domestic disarray, loneliness, identity issues, lovesickness...[a] nimble narrative." ―ELLEIn Moshi Moshi, Yoshie’s... -
Salvation of a Saint : A DETECTIVE GALILEO NOVEL by Keigo Higashino
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱699.00₱579.00(Available after 3-20 days) From the author of the internationally bestselling, award-winning The Devotion of Suspect X comes the latest novel featuring "Detective Galileo" In 2011, The Devotion of Suspect X was a hit with critics and readers alike. The... -
N.P. by Banana Yoshimoto
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱579.00N.P. is the title of a last collection of short stories by a celebrated Japanese writer. Written in English while he was living in Boston, the book may never see print in his native Japan: each time a new translator takes up the task, death gets in the... -
After the Banquet by Yukio Mishima
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱799.00₱579.00In After the Banquet, Mishima draws a portrait of a marriage in which lofty principles clash fatally with appetite and ambition. For years Kazu has run her fashionable restaurant with a combination of charm and shrewdness. But when the middle-aged... -
The Meiji Guillotine Murders by Futaro Yamada, Bryan Karetnyk (Translator)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱579.00A classic Japanese mystery —a pair of sleuths investigate a series of bloody murders in 19th century TokyoA captivating locked room murder mystery perfect for fans of Stuart Turton and Janice HallettJapan, 1869. A time of reform and rebellion... -
How Do You Live? : The uplifting Japanese classic that has enchanted millions by Genzaburo Yoshino
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱1,018.00₱789.00Publishing in English for the very first time, Japan's beloved coming of age classic on what really matters in life The streets of Tokyo swarm below fifteen year-old Copper as he gazes out into the city of his childhood. Struck by the thought of the... -
Creativity and Taoism : A Study of Chinese Philosophy, Art and Poetry by Chung-yuan Chang
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱1,599.00₱1,250.00In Creativity and Taoism, Chang Chung-yuan makes the elusive principle of Tao available to the western mind with objectivity, warmth, and depth of insight. It is an important contribution to the task of making the Taoist wisdom accessible to the western... -
Salt Houses by Hala Alyan
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱799.00₱551.00Winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR * Nylon * Kirkus Reviews * Bustle * BookPage “Moving and beautifully written.” — Entertainment WeeklyOn the eve of her daughter Alia’s... -
The Pillow Book - Dover Thrift Editions by Sei Shonagon
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱499.00₱234.00In the tenth century, Japan was both physically and culturally isolated from the rest of the world. The Pillow Book recaptures this lost world with the diary of a young court lady. Sei Shōnagon was a contemporary of Murasaki Shikibu, who wrote the... -
A Hero Born (Legends of the Condor Heroes, #1) by Jin Yong, Anna Holmwood (Translator)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱579.00Now in English for the first time!Set in ancient China, in a world where kung fu is magic, kingdoms vie for power and the battle to become the ultimate kung fu master unfolds, an unlikely hero is born… in the first book in the epic Legends of the Condor... -
Elegies of Chu - Oxford World's Classics by Nicholas Morrow Williams
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱999.00₱736.00Elegies of Chu (in Chinese, Chuci), one of the two surviving collections of ancient Chinese poetry, is a key source for the whole tradition of Chinese poetry. Because the elegies contain passionate expressions of political protest as well as shamanistic... -
The Rainbow by Yasunari Kawabata
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱899.00₱565.00From the first Japanese author to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, The Rainbow is a sweeping narrative of three interwoven half-sisters and their evolving concept of family. With plenty of unexpected twists and an engagingly empathetic tone, this is... -
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... -
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... -
The Heroic Legend of Arslan, Volume 1 by Yoshiki Tanaka, Hiromu Arakawa (Illustrator)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱799.00₱599.00The fantasy epic from the creator of Fullmetal Alchemist!"An epic fantasy with plenty of historical detail [and a] deft artistic hand." -Anime News Network"Arakawa has no problem depicting the bloody reality of war: severed limbs, decapitated heads,... -
Four Seasons in Japan by Nick Bradley
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱999.00₱799.00A heartwarming and quietly profound story-within-a-story novel from the author of The Cat and The City, Four Seasons in Japan follows a Tokyo translator who stumbles upon a mysterious book left on the subway about a stern grandmother...