Cultural Region/Japanese
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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 Add to cartThe 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 Add to cart“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 Add to cartThe 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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Gai-Jin
$34.99 Add to cartThe dynamic epic novel of political upheaval and societal change in late 1800s Japan, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James Clavell
This epic
- Series: Asian Saga #3
- Author: Clavell, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 9798212173490
- 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
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Ellery Queen’s Japanese Mystery Stories: From Japan’s Greatest Detective & Crime Writers
$15.99 Add to cart“As an anthologist, Ellery Queen is without peer, his taste unequalled. As a bibliographer and a collector of the detective short story, Queen is, again, a historical personage. Indeed, Ellery Queen c… [more below]
- Author: Queen, Ellery
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 04 2020
- ISBN10: 4805315520
- Language: English
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Nobody Is Ever Missing
$16.00 Add to cart“A serious, frequently brilliant novel with a sustained intensity that is rare in fiction. It’s the most promising first novel that I’ve encountered this year.” ―Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journ
- Author: Lacey, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1250334691
- Language: English
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The Goddess Chronicle
$16.00 Read moreOn an island in the shape of a teardrop live two sisters. One is admired far and wide, the other lives in her shadow. One is the Oracle, the other is destined for the Underworld.
But what will happen- Series: Canons
- Author: Kirino, Natsuo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1786899175
- Language: English
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The Best Japanese Short Stories: Works by 14 Modern Masters: Kawabata, Akutagawa and More
$14.99 Add to cartAn anthology of the greatest stories by modern Japanese masters (including previously overlooked women writers)!
Fourteen distinct voices are assembled in this one-of-a-kind anthology tracing a nation- Author: Dunlop, Lane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 4805317299
- Language: English
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Japanese Design Since 1945: A Complete Sourcebook
$85.00 Add to cart“Pollock knows the country’s design history well and the key role that design has in Japanese society. . . . In nearly 500 fully illustrated pages, she profiles 70 architects and designers.” —Archite… [more below]
- Author: Pollock, Naomi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1419750542
- Language: English
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Japanese Farm Food
$40.00 Add to cartJapanese Farm Food, now available in paperback, offers a unique look into life on a Japanese farm through 165 simple, clear-flavored recipes along with personal stories and over 350 stunning photograp… [more below]
- Author: Hachisu, Nancy Singleton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1524868701
- Language: English
