Japanese Literature

Mieko Kanai Paperback 176 pages Housewife Natsumi leads a small, unremarkable life in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and two sons: she

Yoko Tawada Paperback 224 pages A mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian novel about friendship, difference and what it means to belong, by a Nat

Banana Yoshimoto Paperback 160 pages Kitchen juxtaposes two tales about mothers, transsexuality, bereavement, kitchens, love and tragedy in cont

Seishi Yokomizo Paperback 352 pages Nestled deep in the mist-shrouded mountains, The Village of Eight Graves takes its name from a bloody legend:

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 Ic

Author: Taku Ashibe , Cover: Softback, Pages: 384

Author: Sayaka Murata, Cover: Softback, Pages: 240

Author: Sayaka Murata , Cover: Hardback, Pages: 240

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

Author: sosuke natsukawa, Cover: Hardback, Pages: 240

Author: Sosuke Natsukawa, Cover: Softback, Pages: 240

Author: Kumi Kimura, Cover: Softback

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

Author: Seicho Matsumoto, Cover: Paperback, Pages: 352

Cover: Softback, Pages: 240

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

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 Jinboch

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

Natsuko Imamura Paperback 208 pages Asa tries to give her classmate a biscuit. Nami evades her classmates' playground game of acorn-throwing. Hap

Yukio Mishima Hardback 272 pages Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's

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 hi

Banana Yoshimoto Paperback / softback 144 pages I had a premonition of setting out on a journey and getting lost inside a distant tide ... It w

Hiro Arikawa Paperback / softback 256 pages Against changing seasons in Japan, seven cats weave their way through their owners' lives. - A needy