Japanese Literature

Author: Natsuo Kirino, Cover: Softback, Pages: 352...

Author: Seichō Matsumoto, Cover: Softcover, Pages: 96...

Author: Yuko Tsushima, Cover: Softback, Pages: 240...

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

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...

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 el...

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Paperback Meet Keiko. Keiko is 36 years old. She's never had a boyfriend, and she's been working in the same supermarket for eighteen years. Keiko's family wishes she'd get a proper job. Her frien...

Author: Satoshi Yagisawa, Cover: Softback, Pages: 220...

Author: toshikazu kawaguchi, Cover: Hardback, Pages: 256...

Author: Hitomi Kanehara, Cover: Softback, Pages: 224...

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

Author: Banana Yoshimoto, Cover: Softback, Pages: 240...

Author: Emi Yagi, Cover: Softback, Pages: 224...

Author: Nanako Hanada, Cover: Softback, Pages: 224...

Yukio Mishima Paperback 288 pages Beautiful Star is a 1962 tale of family, love, nuclear war and UFOs, and was considered by Mishima to be one of his very best books. Translated into English for...

Yukio Mishima Paperback 176 pages 'There is in this world a kind of desire like stinging pain'A Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his male classmate. He imagines his body punctured w...

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 ...

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 ...

Banana Yoshimoto Paperback 160 pages Kitchen juxtaposes two tales about mothers, transsexuality, bereavement, kitchens, love and tragedy in contemporary Japan. It is a startlingly original first...

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...

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...

PaperbackSeishi Yokomizo In the winter of 1937, the village of Okamura is abuzz with excitement over the forthcoming wedding of a son of the grand Ichiyanagi family. But amid the gossip over the ap...

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...