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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... -
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... -
The Brightest Star: A Historical Novel Based on the True Story of Anna May Wong by Gail Tsukiyama
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap Prices₱1,179.00A LIBRARYREADS PICK AND BEST BOOK CLUB PICK OF 2023. The beloved bestselling author of The Color of Air, Women of the Silk, and The Samurai's Garden returns with this magnificent historical novel based on the life of the luminous,... -
Devils in Daylight by Junichiro Tanizaki, J. Keith Vincent (Translator)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱572.00Now in paperback, a suspenseful early novella from “the outstanding Japanese novelist of this century” (Edmund White). One morning, Takahashi, a writer who has just stayed up all night working, is interrupted by a phone call from his... -
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On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho by Matsuo Bashō, Lucien Stryk (Translator)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱457.99₱457.00Basho, one of the greatest of Japanese poets and the master of haiku, was also a Buddhist monk and a life-long traveller. His poems combine 'karumi', or lightness of touch, with the Zen ideal of oneness with creation. Each poem evokes the natural world -... -
In Order To Live : A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱676.00₱551.00'I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.'Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn't even know what it meant to be free. All she knew was that she... -
Malice by Keigo Higashino
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱999.00₱647.00"This smart and original mystery is a true page-turner… will baffle, surprise, and draw out suspicion until the final few pages. With each book, Higashino continues to elevate the modern mystery as an intense and inventive literary form." —Library... -
Real World by Natsuo Kirino
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱699.00₱579.00In a suburb on the outskirts of Tokyo, four teenage girls drift through a hot smoggy August and tedious summer school classes. There's dependable Toshi; brainy Terauchi; Yuzan, grief-stricken and confused; and Kirarin, whose late nights and reckless... -
The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World : The most moving, unforgettable book of 2021, inspired by true events by Laura Imai Messina
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱699.00₱538.00The international bestselling novel sold in 21 countries, about grief, mourning, and the joy of survival, inspired by a real phone booth in Japan with its disconnected “wind” phone, a place of pilgrimage and solace since the 2011 tsunamiWhen Yui loses... -
Murder in the Crooked House by Soji Shimada
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱799.00₱570.00A fiendish LOCKED ROOM MYSTERY from the Japanese master of the genre.Never before available in English.By the author of the acclaimed Tokyo Zodiac Murders.The Crooked House sits on a snowbound cliff overlooking icy seas at the remote northern tip of... -
The Master Key by Masako Togawa
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱699.00₱499.00The 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... -
Woman Running in the Mountains by Yuko Tsushima, Geraldine Harcourt (Translator), Lauren Groff (Introduction)
Empire Book StoreMSRP: ₱1,599.00₱959.00Set in 1970s Japan, this tender and poetic novel about a young, single mother struggling to find her place in the world is an early triumph by a modern Japanese master.Alone at dawn, in the heat of midsummer, a young woman named Takiko Odaka departs on... -
Blood Sisters by Kim Yideum, Ji Yoon Lee (Translator)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱799.00₱651.00Blood Sisters tells the story of Jeong Yeoul, a young Korean college student in the 1980's, when the memory of President Chun Doohwan's violent suppression of student demonstrations against martial law was still fresh. Yideum captures with raw honesty... -
Nowhere to Be Found by Bae Suah, Sora Kim-Russell (Translator)
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱449.00Nominated for the PEN Translation Prize and the Best Translated Book Award A nameless narrator passes through her life, searching for meaning and connection in experiences she barely feels. For her, time and identity blur, and all action is reaction... -
White Chrysanthemum by Mary Lynn Bracht
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱514.00Finalist for the 2019 Dayton Literary Peace PrizeFor fans of Min Jin Lee's Pachinko and Lilac Girls, the heartbreaking history of Korea is brought to life in this deeply moving and redemptive debut that follows two sisters separated by World War II... -
A Hero Born: Legends of the Condor Heroes Vol. 1 by Jin Yong, Anna Holmwood
Empire Book Store | Authentic Books in Cheap PricesMSRP: ₱699.00₱573.00THE CHINESE "LORD OF THE RINGS" - NOW IN ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST TIME.THE SERIES EVERY CHINESE READER HAS BEEN ENJOYING FOR DECADES - 300 MILLION COPIES SOLD..ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST FANTASY NOVELS OF ALL TIME."Jin Yong's work, in the...