Japanese Literature

Cover: Softback, Pages: 192, Author: Suzuki Izumi...

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

Author: Sanaka Hiiragi, Cover: Softback, Pages: 224...

Toshikazu Kawaguchi Paperback 192 pages The million-copy bestselling series. Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s poignant Before We Say Goodbye, translated from Japanese, explores the age-old question: what ...

Osamu Dazai Paperback 256 pages "Art dies the moment it acquires authority." So said Japan's quintessential rebel writer Osamu Dazai, who, disgusted with the hypocrisy of every kind of establishm...

Hiro Arikawa Paperback / softback 256 pages Against changing seasons in Japan, seven cats weave their way through their owners' lives. - A needy kitten rescued from the recycling bin teaches a n...

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...

SoftbackSayaka Murata Natsuki isn't like the other girls. She has a wand and a transformation mirror. She might be a witch, or an alien from another planet. Together with her cousin Yuu, Natsuki s...

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...

PaperbackToshikazu Kawaguchi In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a cafe which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customer...

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...

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Paperback Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, an ice man, as well as the dreams that shape us and the things we wish for. Whether during a chance reunion in Italy, a romantic exile in Greece,...

Author: Lady Nijo , Cover: Softback, Pages: 288...

Cover: Softback, Pages: 208...

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

Hiroko Oyamada Paperback 80 pages A UK debut from a fresh, prize-winning talent, this quietly surreal novel is perfect for fans of Sayaka Murata and Mieko KawakamiTwo friends meet across three d...

Sayaka Murata Paperback 272 pages From the author of international bestseller Convenience Store Woman comes a collection of short fiction: weird, out of this world and like nothing you've read b...