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Haruki Murakami Manga Stories: Scheherezade; Sleep
$34.99
'Enchanting...intriguing [...] A wonderfully surreal quality and a hip, witty tone.' The Wall Street Journal Haruki Murakami's novels, essays and stories have sold millions of copies worldwide and been translated into...
She and her Cat (PL)
$10.00
Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori For fans of The Travelling Cat Chronicles and translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori, translator of Convenience Store Woman. On the outskirts of Tokyo, local cats...
Out
$22.99
In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the graveyard shift at a factory. Burdened with heavy debts, alienated from husbands and children, they all secretly dream of a way out...
Under the Eye of the Big Bird
$32.99
Translated by Asa Yoneda In the distant future, humans are on the verge of extinction and have settled in small tribes across the planet under the observation and care of...
Record of a Night Too Brief
$22.99
Translated by Lucy North The Akutagawa Prize-winning stories from one of the most highly regarded and provocative contemporary Japanese writers: part of our Japanese novella series, showcasing the best contemporary...
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
$22.99
Considered one of Mishima's masterpieces, this novel is a fictionalised version of real events - the torching of a Kyoto temple by a disturbed Buddhist acolyte in 1950.Mizoguchi grows up...
Runaway Horses
$22.99
The second book in Mishima's Sea of Fertility tetraology - this is a story of political violence, traditional samurai values and nihilism.Isao is a young, engaging patriot, and a fanatical...
The Decay of the Angel
$22.99
The fourth and final book in Mishima's landmark tetralogy, The Sea of FertilityThe dramatic climax of The Sea of Fertility tetraology.It is the 1960s and Honda, now an aged and wealthy man, discovers...
The Temple of Dawn
$22.99
The third novel in Mishima's masterful Sea of Fertility tetralogyMishima's literary powers are on full display in his penultimate novel, a meditation on reincarnation and Buddhist philosophy.Honda, a brilliant lawyer and man...
Thirst for Love
$22.99
A story of a frustrated, confined woman who becomes lost in a psychological maze of her own creation - a labyrinth of jealousy, loneliness and longing.Etsuko is a trapped woman...
Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon
$34.99
THE UNFORGETTABLE MILLION-COPY JAPANESE BESTSELLER BY THE AUTHOR OF LONELY CASTLE IN THE MIRROR First published in Japan under the title TSUNAGU or GO-BETWEEN Brimming with suspense and heartbreak, the million-copy...
Voices of the Fallen Heroes
$32.99
A new selection of lyrically haunting short stories from a Japanese literary iconA writer is seized by apocalyptic visions; a voyeuristic marquis commits a brutal act; and a trio of...
Invisible Helix
$22.99
'The Japanese Stieg Larsson' The Times Detective Galileo, Keigo Higashino's best loved character from The Devotion of Suspect X, returns in a case where hidden history, and impossible crime, are linked by...
MONKEY Volume 5: CREATURES
$34.99
For fans of Japanese literature (Haruki Murakami and more) and readers who want to be introduced to exciting new writers. MONKEY New Writing from Japan is an annual anthology that showcases...
No One Knows
$26.95
No one really understands how we suffer. One day, when we're adults, we may come to recall this suffering, this misery, as silly and laughable, but how are we to...
The Restaurant of Lost Recipes
$19.99
The Restaurant of Lost Recipes, translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood, is the second book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese sleuthing series for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, and...
Mina's Matchbox
$34.99
A story of friendship and family secrets in 1970s Japan, from the prizewinning author of The Memory Police. On sleepless nights, I open the matchbox and reread the story of...
The Noh Mask Murder
$24.99
Strange things are happening in the Chizurui mansion...At night, a figure clad in a Hannya mask is spotted wandering around the house. The amateur crime fiction writer, Akimitsu Takagi, is...
The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea
$36.99
A beautiful hardback edition of a great Japanese classic, beautiful, lyrical and deeply ominous. A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and...
The Third Love
$32.99
Having married her childhood sweetheart, Riko now finds herself trapped in a relationship that has been soured by infidelity. One day, by chance, she runs into her old friend Mr...
The Hole
$24.99
A woman moves to live with her in-laws in the Japanese countryside in this haunting and surreal novel featuring a mysterious relative, an elusive hairy creature, and lots of strange...
Stitches
$27.00
Horror manga giant Junji Ito teams up with spooky story writer Hirokatsu Kihara for the ultimate collection of fright-filled ghost tales! A tumor shaped like a man’s face slowly moves...
MONKEY New Writing from Japan: Volume 4: MUSIC
$34.99
For fans of Japanese literature (Haruki Murakami and more) and readers who want to be introduced to exciting new writers. MONKEY New Writing from Japan is an annual anthology that...
Dragon Palace
$29.99
Translated by Ted Goossen Included in The New Yorker's Best Books of 2023 Stories from a Japanese master of transformative fiction, where reality, myth, and human foibles meet shifting dimensions...
Harlequin Butterfly
$22.99
A witty, dizzying literary caper about books, travel, and translation — perfect for fans of David Mitchell and the work of Hideaki Anno Translated by David Boyd This delightfully surreal...
Kafka: A Manga Adaptation
$26.99
Two cult-favorite Japanese artists present eerie graphic adaptations of 9 classic Kafka short stories, with hypnotic illustrations that will appeal to fans of Junji Ito Franz Kafka’s work is given...
Love at Six Thousand Degrees
$29.99
Translated by Haydn Trowell WINNER OF THE MISHIMA YUKIO PRIZE "Only Ms. Kashimada can create this kind of world." - Yoko Ogawa, author of The Memory Police (on Touring the...
Point Zero
$24.99
Translated by Louise Heal Kawai A beautifully written mystery novel that takes on the taboo of Japanese prostitution catering to GIs during the American post-war occupation. Tokyo 1958, Teiko marries...
Haruki Murakami Manga Stories 2: The Second Bakery Attack; Samsa in Love; Thailand
$34.99
Haruki Murakami's best-loved stories finally in graphic novel form! Haruki Murakami's novels, essays and short stories have sold millions of copies worldwide and been translated into scores of languages. Now...
Self-Portraits: Stories
$26.99
Bringing together novelist Osamu Dazai’s best autobiographical shorts in a single, slim volume, Self-Portraits shows the legendary writer at his best―and worst “Art dies the moment it acquires authority.” So said...
The Meiji Guillotine Murders
$24.99
Translated by Bryan Karetnyk A classic Japanese mystery —a pair of sleuths investigate a series of bloody murders in 19th century Tokyo Tokyo, 1869. It is the dawn of the...
The Tatami Time Machine Blues
$32.99
In the boiling heat of summer, a broken remote control for an air conditioner threatens life as we know it in this reality-bending, time-slipping sequel to The Tatami Galaxy. During...
In Praise of Shadows
$16.99
This eloquent work on the Japanese sense of beauty explores the subtle interplay of shade and light in several important aspects of Japanese life — architecture, drama, food, femininity and...
No Longer Human
$24.95
The poignant and fascinating story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas....
Butter
$32.99
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...
Compound Cinematics: Akira Kurosawa and I
$27.99
Any list of Japan’s greatest screenplay writers would feature Shinobu Hashimoto near or at the top. This memoir, focusing on his collaborations with Akira Kurosawa, a gifted scenarist in his...
Life Ceremony
$22.99
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...
The Black Lizard
$22.99
One of the classic works by the master of Japanese detective fiction A super-criminal - as deadly as she is beautiful - wagers all in an epic battle with a...
The Factory
$24.99
From the author of Weasels in the Attic, here is a modern fable about the all-consuming world of work. Beyond the town, there is the factory. Beyond the factory, there is...
The Name of the Game is a Kidnapping
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THE WAGES OF CYNICISM A battle-tested project leader at PR firm Cyberplan and a slippery bachelor, Sakuma is smug self-regard personified. But when his idea for a mini-theme park is dismissed...
The Setting Sun
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Translated by Donald Keene This powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions in 1956. Set in the early postwar years, it...
The Flowers of Buffoonery
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For the first time in English, Osamu Dazai’s hilariously comic and deeply moving prequel to No Longer Human The Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanitarium where Yozo Oba―the...
Even Cats and Rice Ladles
$24.99
Wise and Witty World of Japanese Sayings Explore the wonderful world of Japanese sayings. Did you know the Japanese have a word for when you’re not hungry but want to...
The Power Wish
$29.99
Japanese moon astrology and the secrets to finding success, happiness and the favour of the universe 'Keiko's method can help people to make their dreams a reality' — Marie Kondo'A...
A Personal Matter
$19.99
Translated by John Nathan Bird, the protagonist of A Personal Matter, is a frustrated young intellectual in a failing marriage whose utopian dream is shattered when his wife gives birth...
Underground
$19.99
Murakami tells the true story behind an act of terrorism that turned an average Monday morning into a national disaster In spite of the perpetrators' intentions, the Tokyo gas attack...
Secret Rendezvous
$19.99
A Kafaesque marvel and a biting satire of bureaucracy, medicine and modern life In Tokyo, in the middle of the night, an uncalled-for ambulance arrives to spirit away a man's...
The Ruined Map
$19.99
A hardboiled detective story that combines the narrative suspense of Chandler with the psychological suspense of Dostoevsky Mr Nemuro, a respected salesman, disappeared over half a year ago, but only...
Murakami T
$35.00
The T-Shirts I Love The international literary icon opens his eclectic closet — here are photographs of Murakami's extensive and personal T-shirt collection, accompanied by essays that reveal a side...
