Japanese Literature

Junichiro Tanizaki paperback 576 pages Tanizaki's masterpiece is the story of four sisters, and the declining fortunes of a traditional Japanese

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

HardbackMatsuo Basho In his perfectly crafted haiku poems, Basho described the natural world with great simplicity and delicacy of feeling. When he c

SoftbackYukio Mishima Tokyo, 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders - rich provincial fam

Kenzaburo OePaperback In Oe's masterpiece of the human condition and family psychology, estranged brothers Mitsusaburo and Takashi have long since le

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

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,

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

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

Author: Banana Yoshimoto, Cover: Softback, Pages: 224

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

Cover: Softback, Pages: 160, Author: Hiromi Kawakami

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

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

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 a

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 288 pages Beautiful Star is a 1962 tale of family, love, nuclear war and UFOs, and was considered by Mishima to be one o

Toh EnJoe Paperback 112 pages Successful entrepreneur A.A. Abrams is pursuing the enigmatic writer Tomoyuki Tomoyuki, who appears to have the abi

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 o

Yoko Tawada Hardback 96 pages A tale of passion and romance between a Japanese schoolteacher and a doglike man, from the prize-winning author of

Kotaro Isaka Paperback 272 pages Good dad or good assassin? Can he be both?From the internationally bestselling author of BULLET TRAIN: A seemin

Yukio Mishima Hardback 144 pages A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and t