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$17.00 Add to cart“Yoshimoto hits some of the same notes that a previous generation’s literary masters (say, Kawabata or Tanizaki) might sound, and yet the effect seems artless, spontaneous and wonderfully fresh.” —Lo… [more below]
- Author: Yoshimoto, Banana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 0802124429
- Language: English
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The Woman in the Purple Skirt
$18.00 Read moreA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR – Marie Claire
“A taut and compelling depiction of loneliness and obsession.” –Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Girl on the Train “[It] will kee- Author: Imamura, Natsuko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 14, 2022
- ISBN10: 0143136038
- Language: English
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The Dancing Girl of Izu: And Other Stories
$15.95 Add to cartA collection of twenty-three stories from one of the most influential figures in modern Japanese literature.
Yasunari Kawabata is widely known for his innovative short stories, some called “palm-of-th- Author: Kawabata, Yasunari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 29 1998
- ISBN10: 1887178945
- Language: English
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Idol, Burning
$24.99 Add to cart“Akari’s obsession is fatalistic and intense, and Usami’s prose (translated by Asa Yoneda) renders it and the hold it has on her tenuous life ably and affectingly. . . . it will especially resonate wi
- Author: Usami, Rin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0063213281
- Language: English
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The Thorn Puller
$18.95 Add to cartIntroducing Hiromi Ito, an award-winning Japanese author who has been compared to Haruki Murakami and Yoko Tawada.
- Author: Ito, Hiromi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 173762530X
- Language: English
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Naomi
$18.00 Add to cartA hilarious story of one man’s obsession and a brilliant reckoning of a nation’s cultural confusion–from a master Japanese novelist.
When twenty-eight-year-old Joji first lays eyes upon the teenage … [more below]- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Tanizaki, Junichiro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 10 2001
- ISBN10: 0375724745
- Language: English
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The Heike Story: The Novel of Love and War in Ancient Japan
$18.99 Add to cartA page-turner by Japan’s most popular writer of the immediate post-war era!
Set in Japan’s turbulent 12th century, this fast-paced novel recounts the titanic struggle between two leading Japanese clan- Series: Tuttle Classics
- Author: Yoshikawa, Eiji
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 4805317078
- Language: English
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Fear and Trembling
$16.00 Add to cartAlternately disturbing and hilarious, unbelievable and shatteringly convincing, Am lie Nothomb’s Fear and Trembling will keep readers clutching tight to the pages of this taut little novel, caught up
- Author: Nothomb, Amelie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 18 2002
- ISBN10: 0312288573
- Language: English
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An Artist of the Floating World
$26.00 Read moreThe Man Booker Prize-shortlisted novel by 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature winner, Kazuo Ishiguro From A to Z, the Penguin Drop Caps series collects 26 unique hardcovers–featuring cover art by Jessica … [more below]
- Series: Penguin Drop Caps
- Author: Ishiguro, Kazuo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 07 2013
- ISBN10: 0143124285
- Language: English
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Idoru
$8.99 Read more“The best novel William Gibson has ever written about the world we’re entering daily. Neuromancer made Gibson famous; Idoru cements that fame.”–The Washington Post Book World
21st century Tokyo, afte- Series: Bridge Trilogy #2
- Author: Gibson, William
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0425158640
- Language: English
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Mishima, Aesthetic Terrorist: An Intellectual Portrait
$19.99 Add to cartHalf a century after his shocking samurai-style suicide, Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) remains a deeply controversial figure. Though his writings and life-story continue to fascinate readers around the wo
- Author: Rankin, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: September 30 2019
- ISBN10: 082488308X
- Language: English
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Kokoro
$16.99 Add to cartKokoro (1914) is a novel by Natsume Sōseki. Set during a period of modernization in Japan, Kokoro is a story of family, faith, and tragedy that explores timeless themes of isolation and identity.
- Series: Mint Editions–Voices from API
- Author: S?seki, Natsume
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: April 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1513208926
- Language: English
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The Book of Tea
$14.99 Read moreThe Book of Tea describes all aspects of the Japanese tea ceremony and explains how its rituals blend seamlessly with traditional Japanese life.
Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of- Author: Okakura, Kakuzo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1529021065
- Language: English
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Grotesque: A Thriller
$16.95 Add to cartLife at the prestigious Q High School for Girls in Tokyo exists on a precise social axis: a world of insiders and outsiders, of haves and have-nots. Beautiful Yuriko and her unpopular, unnamed sister … [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Kirino, Natsuo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 12 2008
- ISBN10: 1400096596
- Language: English
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I Called Him Necktie
$15.99 Add to cartThis is the Japanese Catcher in the Rye for the 21st Century.
- Author: Flasar, Milena Michiko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 133
- Publish Date: September 09 2014
- ISBN10: 1939931142
- Language: English
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Japanese Legends and Folklore: Samurai Tales, Ghost Stories, Legends, Fairy Tales and Historical Accounts
$14.99 Add to cartJapanese Legends and Folklore invites English speakers into the intriguing world of Japanese folktales, ghost stories and historical eyewitness accounts. With a fascinating selection of stories about … [more below]
- Author: Mitford, A. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 4805315016
- Language: English
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Fractured Soul
$27.99 Read moreAwarded the Prix des libraires by France’s booksellers, a universal story about music and restoring one’s faith in others amid the aftermath of tremendous loss.
Tokyo, 1938. An amateur quartet, led by
- Author: Mizubayashi, Akira
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0063093669
- Language: English
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The Street of a Thousand Blossoms
$21.00 Add to cartGail Tsukiyama’s The Street of a Thousand Blossoms is a powerfully moving masterpiece about tradition and change, loss and renewal, and love and family from a glorious storyteller at the height of he
- Author: Tsukiyama, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 05 2008
- ISBN10: 0312384777
- Language: English
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Monkey New Writing from Japan: Volume 4: Music
$20.00 Read moreFor 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 the best o
- Series: Monkey New Writing from Japan
- Author: Goossen, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1737625385
- Language: English
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At the Edge of the Woods
$16.95 Add to cart“Balances wonder and disquiet with incomparable grace and precision…Ono continues to captivate.” –Bryan Washington, author of Memorial
In an unnamed foreign country, a family of three is settling in
- Author: Ono, Masatsugu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1949641287
- Language: English
