Japanese Literature

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Author: Mai Mochizuki, Cover: Softback, Pages: 320...

PaperbackMieko Kawakami On a hot summer's day in a poor suburb of Tokyo we meet three women: thirty-year-old Natsu, her older sister Makiko, and Makiko's teenage daughter Midoriko. Makiko, an ageing ...

Cover: Softback, Pages: 240...

Cover: Hardback, Pages: 448, Author: Haruki Murakami...

Author: Syou Ishida, Cover: Hardback, Pages: 256...

Hiromi Kawakami Paperback 224 pages A tale of modern Japan and old-fashioned romance. 'Enchanting, moving and funny in equal measure, this compelling love story is expertly crafted against a bac...

Yasunari KawabataPaperback Shimamura is tired of the bustling city. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the west coast of Japan, to meet with a geisha he believes he loves. Beauti...

Author: Hiromi Kawakami, Cover: Softback, Pages: 288...

Author: Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Cover: Softback, Pages: 192...

Author: Sanaka Hiiragi, Cover: Softback, Pages: 224...

Atsuhiro Yoshida Paperback 176 pages Matsui is the driver of a taxi the colour of the night sky. Every night between the hours of 1 am and 4.30 am, Matsui guides his taxi around the streets of To...

Hideo Furukawa Paperback 128 pages A startling novella from the heir to Haruki Murakami and Gabriel García Márquez 'I've never made it out of Tokyo. I can't tell you how many times I've ask...

Satoshi Yagisawa Paperback 176 pages In Tokyo, there is a neighbourhood with the highest number of bookstores in the world. It is called Jinbocho where book lovers can browse to their heart's de...

Seishi Yokomizo Paperback 320 pages An old friend of Kosuke Kindaichi's invites the scruffy detective to visit the remote mountain village of Onikobe in order to look into a twenty-year-old murd...

Paperback 576 pages A major anthology of great Japanese short stories introduced by Haruki MurakamiThis is a celebration of the Japanese short story from its modern origins in the nineteenth centu...

SoftbackYukito Ayatsuji The lonely, rockbound island of Tsunojima is notorious as the site of a series of bloody unsolved murders. Some even say it's haunted. One thing's for sure: it's the perfect d...

Natsume Soseki Paperback 256 pages In 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 th...

Banana Yoshimoto Paperback 224 pages There was no past, no future, no words, nothing - just the light and the yellow and the scent of dry leaves in the sun. Japan's internationally celebrated sto...

Shusaku Endo Paperback 288 pages A group of Japanese tourists journey to the sacred River Ganges, each on a secret personal pilgrimage. Widower Isobe mourns for the devoted wife he neglected; gen...

Yukio Mishima Hardback 272 pages Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Co...

Toshikazu Kawaguchi Hardback 224 pages The million-copy bestselling series. Now as a beautiful, collectible hardback - the perfect gift. Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s moving Before the Coffee Gets Col...

Akimitsu Takagi Paperback 224 pages Can you solve the puzzle of the Noh Mask Murder?Death and madness have haunted the Chizui family for years. Now a strange figure has been seen wandering their...

Taichi Yamada Paperback 208 pages Middle-aged, jaded and divorced, TV scriptwriter Harada returns one night to the dilapidated downtown district of Tokyo where he grew up. There, at the theatre,...