Japan
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Vampire Dormitory 5
$10.99 Add to cart“I’ll do it! I’ll become your thrall!” A crossdressing girl and an otaku vampire find themselves entangled in a dangerous relationship. Don’t miss this heart-pounding romance from the award-winning Em… [more below]
- Series: Vampire Dormitory
- Author: Toyama, Ema
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1646513339
- Language: English
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The Osamu Tezuka Story: A Life in Manga and Anime
$36.95 Read moreThis graphic-format biography of Osamu Tezuka–Japan’s “God of Manga”–looks at one of the twentieth century’s great creative artists (Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion, Black Jack). It is also an anecd
- Author: Ban, Toshio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: July 19 2016
- ISBN10: 1611720257
- Language: English
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Break of Dawn
$22.99 Read moreThe coming-of-age manga that inspired the anime film from the acclaimed screenwriter Dai Sato (Cowboy Bebop, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex)!
It’s the year 2038, but more importantly, it’s su- Series: Break of Dawn
- Author: Imai, Tetsuya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1646518152
- Language: English
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The Heron Catchers
$19.95 Add to cart2023 American Writing Awards Finalist 2023 Foreword Indies Awards Finalist
Joiner’s second novel set in the fabled Kanazawa area is an intimate yet understated look at an American who seeks recovery a
- Author: Joiner, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1611720818
- Language: English
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Shipwrecks
$13.95 Add to cartIsaku is a nine-year-old boy living in a remote, desperately poor fishing village on the coast of Japan. His people catch barely enough fish to live on, and so must distill salt to sell to neighboring… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Yoshimura, Akira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 15 2000
- ISBN10: 0156008351
- Language: English
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Marshland
$27.95 Read moreOtohiko Kaga’s Marshland is an epic novel on a Tolstoyan scale, running from the pre-World War II period to the turbulence of 1960s Japan. At forty-nine, Atsuo Yukimori is a humble auto mechanic livin
- Series: Japanese Literature
- Author: Kaga, Otohiko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1628974044
- Language: English
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Somersault
$18.00 Add to cartKenzaburo Oe is internationally recognized as one of the world’s finest writers, and his achievements have received the Nobel Prize for Literature. Somersault, the first new novel he published since w… [more below]
- Series: OE, Kenzaburo
- Author: Oe, Kenzaburo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: December 03 2003
- ISBN10: 0802140459
- Language: English
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Strangulation: Kubishime Romanticist
$14.95 Add to cartWhen NISIOISIN, Japan’s bestselling novelist, writes a murder mystery, it won’t be like anything you’ve ever read before. Now in a new English translation
Whether you’re already a fan of Japanese phe- Series: Zaregoto #2
- Author: Nisioisin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: April 24 2018
- ISBN10: 1945054832
- Language: English
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Point Zero
$16.95 Add to cart“A master crime writer…Seichō Matsumoto’s thrillers dissect Japanese society.”–The New York Times. A beautifully written mystery novel that takes on the taboo of Japanese prostitution caterin… [more below]
- Author: Matsumoto, Seicho
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 191339493X
- Language: English
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Kangaroo Notebook
$15.95 Add to cartIn the last novel written before his death in 1993, one of Japan’s most distinguished novelists proffered a surreal vision of Japanese society that manages to be simultaneously fearful and jarringly f… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Abe, Kobo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 29 1997
- ISBN10: 0679746633
- Language: English
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Sabikui Bisco, Vol. 4 (Light Novel): Karmic Crown, Florescent Sword
$15.00 Read moreThe Six Realms Penitentiary is a legendary prison so vast and so intricate that many have come to call it the prison city. Hot on the trail of the Akaboshi Mark I, Bisco and Milo find themselves in Ky
- Series: Sabikui Bisco (Light Novel) #4
- Author: Cobkubo, Shinji
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 1975336879
- Language: English
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The Tale of Genji
$12.99 Add to cartConsidered today to be a classic of Japanese literature, Lady Murasaki Shikibu’s groundbreaking novel, The Tale of Genji, is a story of a young man in search of love in the time of Heian aristocracy.
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- Series: Mint Editions (Voices from Api)
- Author: Shikibu, Lady Murasaki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 9798888970119
- Language: English
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The Harsh Cry of the Heron: The Last Tale of the Otori
$22.00 Add to cartThe Harsh Cry of the Heron is the fourth book in the Tales of the Otori series by Lian Hearn. Don’t miss the related series, The Tale of Shikanoko.
A dazzling epic of warfare and sacrifice, passionat- Series: Tales of the Otori #4
- Author: Hearn, Lian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: June 05 2007
- ISBN10: 1594482578
- Language: English
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Sunrise: Radiant Stories
$16.00 Read more“A knockout.” —Publishers Weekly (Starred review)
“A remarkable collection.” –Kirkus Reviews A collection of contemplative, lyrical stories examining the visible and invisible consequences of atomic- Author: Kobayashi, Erika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1662601174
- Language: English
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Thousand Cranes
$16.00 Add to cartA luminous story of desire, regret, and the almost sensual nostalgia that binds the living to the dead—from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner and author of Snow Country.
“A stunning economy, delicacy- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Kawabata, Yasunari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 26 1996
- ISBN10: 0679762655
- Language: English
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The Ten Loves of Nishino
$16.00 Add to cartWINNER 2020 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE
Best-selling and beloved Japanese author Hiromi Kawakami (The Nakano Thrift Shop) tells the story of an enigmatic man through the voices of ten remarkable women who h
- Author: Kawakami, Hiromi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1609455339
- 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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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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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
