Japanese Literature

Kazushige Abe Paperback 224 pages Shiori knows that she was destined to sing - even if she is completely tone-deaf. Forced to give up her dream of becoming a travelling troubadour, she moves to T...

Ryunosuke Akutagawa Paperback 208 pages These are short stories from an unparalleled icon of modern Japanese literature. Sublimely crafted and shotthrough with a fantastical sensibility, they of...

Osamu Dazai Paperback 256 pages "Art dies the moment it acquires authority." So said Japan's quintessential rebel writer Osamu Dazai, who, disgusted with the hypocrisy of every kind of establishm...

Futaro Yamada Paperback 384 pages okyo, 1869. It is the dawn of the Meiji era in Japan, but the scars of the recent civil war are yet to heal. The new regime struggles to keep the peace as old...

Ryu Murakami Paperback 512 pages Two 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...

Hiroko Oyamada Paperback 80 pages A UK debut from a fresh, prize-winning talent, this quietly surreal novel is perfect for fans of Sayaka Murata and Mieko KawakamiTwo friends meet across three d...

Yoko Tawada Paperback 224 pages A mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian novel about friendship, difference and what it means to belong, by a National Book Award-winning novelist. Welcome to the ...

Mieko Kawakami Paperback 224 pages From international literary sensation Mieko Kawakami comes All the Lovers in the Night, an extraordinary, deeply moving and insightful story set in contemporar...

Banana Yoshimoto Paperback 384 pages A celebrated actress who has died in mysterious and shocking circumstances leaves behind an unconventional extended family that includes an older sister, a w...

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...

Haruki Murakami Paperback 304 pages A mesmerising mystery story about friendship from the internationally bestselling author of Norwegian Wood and 1Q84Tsukuru Tazaki had four best friends at scho...

Haruki Murakami Paperback 624 pages Toru Okada's cat has disappeared. His wife is growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been rec...

SoftbackYukio Mishima Tokyo, 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders - rich provincial families, a new and powerful political and social eli...

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...

Hardback Hat, ribbon, bird, rose. To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no longer has any meaning. It can be burned in the garden, thrown in the river or handed over to the Memory Police. ...

Paperback Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, an ice man, as well as the dreams that shape us and the things we wish for. Whether during a chance reunion in Italy, a romantic exile in Greece, ...

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

Author: Osamu Dazai, Cover: Softback, Pages: 96...

Cover: Softback, Pages: 160, Author: Tomoka Shibasaki...

Cover: Softback, Pages: 224, Author: Yasunari Kawabata...

Author: Yoko Ogawa , Cover: Softback, Pages: 176...

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

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...

Toshikazu Kawaguchi Hardback 208 pages The million-copy bestselling series. Now discover the second book in the series as a beautiful, collectible hardback - the perfect gift. Toshikazu Kawaguch...