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Gifted
A moving portrayal of a troubled mother–daughter relationship, shortlisted for Japan’s prestigious Akutagawa Prize.
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In 2008, the unnamed narrator of Gifted is working as a hostess and living in Tokyo’s… -
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Strange Weather in Tokyo
Tsukiko is drinking alone in her local sake bar when by chance she meets one of her old high school teachers and, unable to remember his name, she falls back into her old habit of calling him 'Sensei'…
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Human Acts
A riveting, poetic, and fearless portrait of political unrest and the universal struggle for justice by the acclaimed author of The Vegetarian.
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Breasts and Eggs
Challenging every preconception about storytelling and prose style, mixing wry humor and riveting emotional depth, Kawakami is today one of Japan’s most important and best-selling writers. She explode…
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A Perfect Day to Be Alone
It was raining when I arrived at the house. The walls of my room were lined with cat photos, set in fancy frames just below the ceiling.
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When her mother emigrates to China for work, twenty-year-old Chi… -
The Third Love
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 Takaoka, who offers fr…
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The Lonesome Bodybuilder
A housewife takes up bodybuilding and sees radical changes to her physique--which her workaholic husband fails to notice. A boy waits at a bus stop, mocking businessmen struggling to keep their umbrel…
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The Beggar Student
For fans of No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai’s darkly bewitching novel about the small redemptions of being a pathetic, miserable writer.
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A fictional thirty-something writer named Osamu Dazai has just mail… -
All the Lovers in the Night
Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copy editor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone in a city where it is not easy to form new relationships, she has little regular contact with anyone other than her…
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The Bookshop Woman
A love story to climbing all the way down a book's rope, free diving to its bottom, and then resurfacing at its close, ready to breathe a different kind of air.
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Nanako Hanada's life is in crisis. Recen… -
Record of a Night Too Brief
The Akutagawa Prize-winning stories from the author of Strange Weather in Tokyo.
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In these three haunting and lyrical stories, three young women experience unsettling loss and romance.
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Greek Lessons
“Now and then, language would thrust its way into her sleep like a skewer through meat, startling her awake several times a night.”
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In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language tea… -
Heaven
Hailed as a bold foray into new literary territory, Kawakami’s novel is told in the voice of a 14-year-old student who subjected to relentless torment for having a lazy eye. Instead of resisting, the …
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Dragon Palace
Included in The New Yorker's Best Books of 2023
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From the bestselling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo comes this otherworldly collection of eight stories, each a masterpiece of transformation, infuse… -
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The Hole
Asa’s husband is transferring jobs, and his new office is located near his family’s home in the countryside. During an exceptionally hot summer, the young married couple move in, and Asa does her best…
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