Japanese Literature

Author: yukio mishima, Cover: Softback, Pages: 272...

Author: Hiromi (Y) Kawakami, Cover: Hardback, Pages: 288...

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

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...

Michiko Aoyama Paperback 256 pages What are you looking for?So asks Tokyo's most enigmatic librarian, Sayuri Komachi. But she is no ordinary librarian. Sensing exactly what someone is searchi...

Toshikazu Kawaguchi Paperback 192 pages The million-copy bestselling series. Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s poignant Before We Say Goodbye, translated from Japanese, explores the age-old question: what ...

Natsuko Imamura Paperback 128 pages A moving novella about a misunderstood young girl, from the author of The Woman in the Purple Skirt - part of Pushkin's second Japanese Novella seriesMeet youn...

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,...

Toshikazu Kawaguchi Paperback 256 pages The million-copy bestselling series. Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s touching Before Your Memory Fades, translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, expl...

Haruki Murakami Paperback / softback 400 pages An assault on the senses, part murder mystery, part metaphysical speculation; a fable for our times as catchy as a rock song blasting from the wind...

Banana Yoshimoto Paperback / softback 144 pages I had a premonition of setting out on a journey and getting lost inside a distant tide ... It was the beginning of summer, and I was nineteen yea...

Yukito Ayatsuji Paperback 256 pages A twisty and ingenious classic Japanese murder mystery from the author of The Decagon House MurdersEvery year, a small group of acquaintances pay a visit to ...

Mieko Kanai Paperback 176 pages Housewife Natsumi leads a small, unremarkable life in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and two sons: she does the laundry, goes on trips to the supermarke...

Junichiro Tanizaki paperback 576 pages Tanizaki's masterpiece is the story of four sisters, and the declining fortunes of a traditional Japanese family. It is a loving and nostalgic recreation of...

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 ...

Kenzaburo OePaperback In Oe's masterpiece of the human condition and family psychology, estranged brothers Mitsusaburo and Takashi have long since left their family home in a remote forested valley o...

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Cover: Softback, Pages: 304, Author: Kotaro Isaka...

Cover: Softback, Pages: 208, Author: Hisashi Kashiwai...

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

Author: Yôko Ogawa, Cover: Softback, Pages: 278...

Natsuko Imamura Paperback 208 pages Asa tries to give her classmate a biscuit. Nami evades her classmates' playground game of acorn-throwing. Happy decides she's not interested in doing anything ...

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...

Hiromi Kawakami Paperback 288 pages Having married her childhood sweetheart, Riko now finds herself trapped in a relationship that has been soured by infidelity. One day, by chance, she runs i...