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** The Sunday Times and New York Times Bestseller **Brilliant, heartbreaking and highly original, Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, and a testament to the...

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

Translated by Jamie ChangThe multi-million copy selling, international bestseller Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 is the South Korean sensation that has got the whole world talking.The life story of one young...

Translated by Ginny Tapley TakemoriMind-blowing, dark and wild, the new novel from Sayaka Murata — author of bestseller Convenience Store Woman — asks: how far would you go just to...

The debut novel from one of the National Book Foundation's 2018 5 Under 35Ada has always been unusual. Her parents prayed her into existence, but something must have gone awry....

Tales of upheaval and confusion, longing and love in the aftermath of the Kobe earthquake.For the characters in After the Quake, the Kobe earthquake is an echo from a past...

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

A New York Times Editor's ChoiceAn intimate, stirring portrait of a country at war and a family's battle to survive. Set against the backdrop of the Viet Nam War, The...

Translated by Janet HongThis is not a murder story. It is the story of those left behind. Parasite meets The Good Son in this piercing psychological portrait of three women...

The heart-rending story of survival and endurance in Japanese-occupied SingaporeSingapore, 1942. As Japanese troops sweep down Malaysia and into Singapore, a village is ransacked, leaving only three survivors, one of...

A victorian epic transplanted to Japan, following a Korean family of immigrants through eight decades and four generations. 'This is a captivating book ... Min Jin Lee's novel takes us...

WINNER OF THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE'Breathtaking' — Elle'Powerhouses of feeling and depth' — Mary Gaitskill'Sharp and vital' — Daisy Johnson'Excellent' — Margaret AtwoodAn ex-boxer turned nail salon worker falls for...

Translated by Ginny Tapley TakemoriThe surprise smash hit — Japan's answer to Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine.Meet Keiko.Keiko is 36 years old. She's never had a boyfriend, and she's been...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2022 From the bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs and international literary sensation Mieko Kawakami, comes a sharp and illuminating novel about a teenage...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM STUDIO GHIBLIThe beloved multi-million copy bestselling Japanese classic about finding one's place in the world'In How Do You Live?, Copper, our hero, and his...

Translated by Meredith WeatherbyLong regarded as one of the most important novels to appear in post-war Japan, Confessions of a Mask is an allegory of a lonely boy’s yearning quest...

*Highly Commended Fiction — Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2021*'Before I go into my grave,' she says out loud, 'I will kill that man.' A brilliant new novel from the author...

A New York Times 'Notable Book of 2020' One of Elena Ferrante's 'Top 40 Books by Female Authors' 'A sharply observed and heartbreaking portrait of what it means to be...

The third novel in the international bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold, following four new customers in a cafe where customers can travel back in time.In northern Japan, overlooking the...

Winner of the 2023 Victorian Premier’s Prize for LiteratureThe inaugural winner of The Novel Prize, an international biennial award established by Giramondo (Australia), Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK) and New Directions (USA)....

A propulsive, seductive new novel about friendship, exploitation and intimacy from the prize-winning author of Where Reasons End Fabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agnès, receives the news in...

A seductive, disorienting, and wholly original story about parallel lives, unfolding over a day and a night in the sweltering heat of Seoul's summer.'As cryptic and compelling as a fever...

A Kafaesque marvel and a biting satire of bureaucracy, medicine and modern lifeIn Tokyo, in the middle of the night, an uncalled-for ambulance arrives to spirit away a man's wife,...

A hardboiled detective story that combines the narrative suspense of Chandler with the psychological suspense of DostoevskyMr Nemuro, a respected salesman, disappeared over half a year ago, but only now...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey...

We join San in 1970s rural South Korea, a young girl ostracised from her community. She meets a girl called Namae, and they become friends until one afternoon changes everything....

Three generations of Taiwanese American women are haunted by the myths of their homeland in this blazing debut of one family's queer desires, violent impulses and buried secrets.One evening, Mother...

Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori 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...

A haunting and elegiac love story set in a spoiled paradise, as vital and as relevant today as when it was first published.A single lighted match banishes Triton from his...

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the award-winning author of Native Speaker and On Such a Full Sea, an exuberant, provocative story about a young American life transformed by an unusual Asian adventure...

Kobo Abe's existential and entertaining masterpiece'This is the record of a box man'The streets of Tokyo have been seeing a strange phenomenon recently — people who have decided to live...

'A long-time confidante of the rain and snow, I am ninety years old. The rain and snow have weathered me, and I too have weathered them'At the end of the...

INNER OF THE 2021 AKUTAGAWA PRIZE A bestselling and award-winning Japanese phenomenon - about obsession, pop culture and fandom 'My oshi was on fire. Word was he'd punched a fan'...

The Asian literary phenomenon of the 90s.More magical than Mistry, more of a rollicking good read than Rushdie, more nerve-tinglingly imagined than Naipaul, here, perhaps, is the greatest Indian novel...

A glitteringly dark and unsettling debut novel set in the drinking dens and beauty salons of South KoreaIf I Had Your Face plunges us into the mesmerising world of contemporary...

Winner of the 2022 Booker Prize; an epic, searing satire.A magical realism whodunnit set amid Sri Lanka's civil war. Now with added author content — a Map of Colombo as...

From a prize winning Sri Lankan author, a story of age and youth, loss and survival that builds into a magisterial reckoning with mortality.It begins with a message: a telephone...

A surreal work of science fiction from one of Japan's most brilliant novelists In anticipation of a coming nuclear apocalypse, Mole has converted a huge underground quarry into an 'ark'....

A funny, poignant, and surprising novel about a goat's life in rural India by the greatest living Tamil author.A farmer in India is watching the sun set over his village...

Clever, bewildering and darkly comic, The Woman in the Purple Skirt is the story of two women whose lives are set to become terribly entwined.I suppose what I'm trying to...

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'Devastating' Daily Telegraph’Heartbreaking' The Times’Unforgettable' Isabel Allende'Haunting' IndependentAfghanistan, 1975: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help...

A wry and insightful portrait of contemporary life, this is the much-anticipated follow-up to the award-winning novel Chemistry.Joan is a thirty-something ICU doctor at a busy New York City hospital....

A girl walks through the slums of Kolkata holding an armful of books. She returns home smelling of smoke, and checks her most prized possession: a brand-new smartphone, purchased in...

Winner of the 2022 Women’s PrizeIf you let it — if you listen — a book could change your life.After his father dies, Benny Oh finds he can hear objects...

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2020For all fans of Hot Milk comes a searing debut novel about mothers and daughters, obsession and betrayal.In her youth, Tara was wild. She abandoned...

*Longlisted for the Jhalak Prize* *Longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize*A breathtaking collection of stories about our most intimate relationships, and the secrets, misunderstandings and silences that haunt them. A...

A POPSUGAR Best Book of December 2020A SHE READS Best Historical Fiction Novel Winter 2021A BUSTLE Most Anticipated Winter 2021 ReadA LIBRO.FM Influencer Pick, December 2020Inspired by true events on...

A grandson tries to learn the family story. But what kind of story is it? Is it a prison memoir, about the grandfather imprisoned without charge or trial by a...

Translated by Jamie ChangThe Prize-Winning International BestsellerWhen a mother allows her thirty-something daughter to move into her apartment, she wants for her what many mothers might say they want for...

The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story. There are two things that...