Asia

Translated by Shanna Tan There was only one thing on her mind.'I must start a bookshop.' Yeongju did everything she was supposed to, go to university, marry a decent man,...

Translated by Haydn Trowell A woman turns herself into a forest after long being co-opted to serve as the subject of her husband's novels — this surrealist fable challenges traditional...

Hidden in Jimbocho, Tokyo is a booklover's paradise. On a quiet corner in an old wooden building lies a shop filled with hundreds of second-hand books. Twenty-five-year-old Takako has never...