Japanese Literature

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

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

Natsume Soseki Paperback 256 pages In the seaside city of Kamakura, a student is drawn to an enigmatic older man who swims at the same beach. Th

Hideo Furukawa Paperback 128 pages A startling novella from the heir to Haruki Murakami and Gabriel García Márquez 'I've never made it out

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

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

Ryunosuke Akutagawa Paperback 208 pages These are short stories from an unparalleled icon of modern Japanese literature. Sublimely crafted and s

Osamu Dazai Paperback 256 pages "Art dies the moment it acquires authority." So said Japan's quintessential rebel writer Osamu Dazai, who, disgus

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.

Hiroko Oyamada 128 pages From the award-winning author of Weasels in the Attic, a modern fable about the world of workBeyond the town, there is t

Lafcadio Hearn Paperback 256 pages The dead wreak revenge on the living, paintings come alive, spectral brides possess mortal men and a priest

Hisashi Kashiwai Paperback The Kamogawa Food Detectives, translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood, is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-

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

Yukito Ayatsuji Paperback 256 pages A twisty and ingenious classic Japanese murder mystery from the author of The Decagon House MurdersEvery ye

Haruki Murakami Paperback 816 pages Read this imaginative masterpiece from the internationally bestselling author of Norwegian Wood The year is

Satoshi Yagisawa Paperback 160 pages Hidden in Jimbocho, Tokyo is a booklover's paradise. On a quiet corner in an old wooden building lies a shop

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

Sayaka Murata Paperback 272 pages From the author of international bestseller Convenience Store Woman comes a collection of short fiction: weird

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

Paperback 576 pages A major anthology of great Japanese short stories introduced by Haruki MurakamiThis is a celebration of the Japanese short sto

Haruki Murakami Paperback 624 pages Toru Okada's cat has disappeared. His wife is growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly

SoftbackYukito Ayatsuji The lonely, rockbound island of Tsunojima is notorious as the site of a series of bloody unsolved murders. Some even say it's

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