Japanese Literature

Author: Sosuke Natsukawa, Cover: Hardback, Pages: 224...

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

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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...

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...

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...

Asako Yuzuki Paperback 464 pages The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story. There are ...

Tatsuya Endo Paperback 192 pages Defiant and brash, Princess Kaguya Takenouchi isn't the ideal heir to the moon's Silver Court. But when villainous usurpers attack her people, she must rise to t...

Paperback 224 pages `Edmund WhiteWith the Second World War only a few years in the past, and Japan still reeling from its effects, two sisters - born to the same father but different mothers - str...

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 ...

Michiko Aoyama Hardback 256 pages For fans of The Midnight Library and Before the Coffee Gets Cold, this soul-stirring Japanese novel shows how the perfect book recommendation can help us fulf...

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...

Paperback 237 pages The third novel in the international bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, following four new customers in a cafe where customers can travel back in time. On the hill...

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...

SoftbackSeishi Yokomizo In 1940s Japan, the wealthy head of the Inugami Clan dies, and his family eagerly await the reading of the will. But no sooner are its strange details revealed than a series of...

HardbackMatsuo Basho In his perfectly crafted haiku poems, Basho described the natural world with great simplicity and delicacy of feeling. When he composed The Narrow Road to the Deep North he was a...

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...

Fumiko EnchiPaperback Published for the first time in the UK, one of Japan's greatest modern female writers In the late nineteenth century, Tomo, the faithful wife of a government official, is sent t...

Yukio MishimaPaperback After the early death of her philandering husband, Etsuko moves into her father-in-law's house, where she numbly submits to the old man's advances. But soon she finds herself i...