Bestsellers

Full of wit, music, and a rollicking cast of characters, The Villain's Dance shows Fiston Mwanza Mujila is back with a bang. Zaire. Late 90's. Mobutu's thirty-year reign is tottering....

The Early Life of Nawal El Saadawi, In Her Own Words Volume one of the autobiography of Nawal El Saadawi, the Arab world's leading feminist. In A Daughter of Isis,...

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...

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...

A landmark anthology, staking a new claim for Bengali literature in EnglishThe prose short story arrived in Bengal in the wake of British colonizers, and Bengali writers quickly made the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Japan's Legendary Book on Samurai Military Strategy A new manga adaptation of Musashi's legendary BOOK OF FIVE RINGS! Miyamoto Musashi is the greatest swordsman who ever lived. He is renowned...

Translated by Lisa Dillman A 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATED LITERATURE FINALIST By the Colombian author of The Bitch, a 2020 National Book Award Finalist and PEN Awards Winner...

The author of Down the Rabbit Hole delivers a hilarious and prize-winning tale of immigrants, students and gangsters in Barcelona 'I don't expect anyone to believe me,' warns the narrator...

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...

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...

Translated by Suzanne Heukensfeldt Jansen A bold, unsettling, and heart-breaking story about race, belonging and the legacies of violence Salome was bullied for years and no one did a single...

Translated by Natasha Lehrer In this dystopian novel about total collapse by internationally renowned author Amin Maalouf, a complete blackout hits a small island with only two solitary inhabitants, who...

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...

A timeless psychological study of a young man's deep alienation from society. Set in the early 20th century, Kokoro opens with a chance encounter on a beach near Tokyo that...

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...

An intimate look at the lives, loves, horrors, and dreams of girls and women in an Afghan mountain village under Taliban rule. A heartbreaking tragedy in the vein of The...

The winner of multiple Eisner Awards, author Taiyo Matsumoto explores the relationships between a manga editor, manga creators, art, and the rhythm of life these days. After 30 years as...

The essential writings of China’s first iconic modern intellectual, intent on reforming an entire nation, now published for the first time in Penguin Classics The power, anger, and fluency of...

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...

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...

Winner of an English PEN Award Shortlisted for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle/Gregg Barrios Prize for Translated Literature. A new masterwork of satire, lore, and...

In an unnamed coastal city filled with refugees, the mother of a displaced family calls out her daughter’s name as she wanders the cliffside road where the child once worked....

Haruki Murakami's stories in graphic novel form for the first time! Haruki Murakami's novels, essays and short stories have sold millions of copies worldwide and been translated into dozens of...

A profound, poignant story of a village healer and her community, from one of the world’s great contemporary novelists In rural Yun Village, herbalist Mrs. Yi lives with her husband in...

A gripping and heart-wrenching novel of damage and survival, grief and unexpected solace, Marilyn and Me is a fascinating — and timely — insight into an extraordinary time and place...

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...

Translated by Howard Goldblatt In this novel by the 2012 Nobel Laureate in Literature, a benign old monk listens to a prospective novice’s tale of depravity, violence and carnivorous excess...

Translated from the French by Jordan Stump. The Cheffe is born into an impoverished family in Sainte-Bazeille in south-western France, but when she takes a job working in the kitchen...

Translated by Howard Curtis Boxing offers one boy hope in cruel between-the-wars Algeria — but will it help him win the woman he loves? As a child living in a...

Translated by Norma Moore Field Soseki Natsume is considered to be one of Japan's most beloved and respected authors.And Then is ranked as one of his most insightful and stirring...

The Boy in the Baseball Cap explores a range of subjects, and explores gay and lesbian themes, in a post-Menglong style.

Translated by Chi-Young Kim A universal tale of family bonds and out-of-the-ordinary friendships. My Brilliant Life interweaves the past and present of a tight-knit family, finding joy and happiness in...

Translated by Dong Li Song Lin is one of China’s most innovative poets. When the Tiananmen protest exploded in Beijing in June 1989, Song led student demonstrations in Shanghai and...

Translated by Alexia Trigo Mohamed Mbougar Sarr's searing and thought-provoking debut novel, Brotherhood takes place in the imaginary town of Kalep, where a fundamentalist Islamist government has spread its brutal...

New York Times bestselling non-fiction author joins forces with a celebrated science-fiction novelist to blend imaginative storytelling and scientific forecasting to ask how artificial intelligence will change our world over the...

Translated from the Chinese by Gigi Chang and Shelly Bryant THE CHINESE "LORD OF THE RINGS" — NOW IN ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST TIME. THE SERIES EVERY CHINESE READER HAS...

A Modern Translation of Japan's Gardening Classic Learn the art of Japanese gardening with this classic, fascinating text. The Sakuteiki, or "Records of Garden Making," was written nearly one thousand...

Translated by Donal McLaughlin Part Odyssey of the Persian Gulf and part 1001 Nights in Europe, this debut novel is drawn from the author’s experiences as a political prisoner and...

Life-changing wisdom from the popular Persian sage and poet “What a shame to finally reach the open sea but settle for a modest jug of water!" This is a collection...

Translated by Gila Walker In Blind Spot, Myriam Tadessé exposes the difficulty, even the impossibility, for France to truly understand and celebrate the lived realities of mixed or biracial French...

Translated by Howard Goldblatt In Change, Mo Yan, winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature, personalises the political and social changes in his country over the past few decades...

Translated by Sunandini Banerjee May 1992. In Russia, Boris Yeltsin is showing millions of communists the spectre of capitalism. Yugoslavia is disintegrating. United Germany is uncertain about their next move,...

Translated by Ouyang YuAn award-winning contemporary bilingual Kazakh poet, originally from PRC, writing poetry both in Chinese and Kazakh.ISBN: 9781925780697 | Published: 1 November 2021 | Paperback | 102 pages

Translated by Tiffany Tsao To say it is hard to be queer in Indonesia is a gross understatement. LGBTQI Indonesians encounter violence on a regular basis – from those around...

Translated by Lisa Dillman Kingdom Cons, Signs Preceding the End of the World, The Transmigration of Bodies The Mexico we hear of in the news — the drug cartels, migration...

Translated by Daniel Hahn*Longlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize*A smart and stylish account of the bigotry lurking in our hearts and institutions alike.Federico and Lourenço are brothers. Their father...