World Literature - Japan
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Under the Eye of the Big Bird
$17.95 Read more- Author: Kawakami, Hiromi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1593768079
- Language: English
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The Summer House
$18.99 Read moreThis prize-winning debut novel offers a compelling, insightful portrait of modern Japan through a group of architects competing to design a major new building in Tokyo.
Tōru Sakanishi is a recent- Author: Matsuie, Masashi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1635425174
- Language: English
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A Hundred Years and a Day: 34 Stories
$18.95 Add to cartThis ground-breaking collection from Tomoka Shibasaki, author of the acclaimed novel Spring Garden, pushes the short story to a new level.
In these stories of human connection in a contemporary, aliena
- Author: Shibasaki, Tomoka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 9798988688730
- Language: English
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The Blue Wolves of Mibu 4 (Blue Miburo)
$13.99 Add to cartNio is an orphan who can’t help dreaming of a better world. In this action-packed manga, he meets two men who show him how much a few swords can change history. This riveting samurai series from the a… [more below]
- Series: The Blue Wolves of Mibu
- Author: Yasuda, Tsuyoshi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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Unusual Fragments: 20th Century Japanese Fiction
$17.00 Add to cartComposing a fuller picture of the literary era that brought us Osamu Dazai and Kōbō Abe, Unusual Fragments foregrounds stories of alienation with surprising humor and imagination.
A young st- Series: Calico
- Author: Coolidge, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1949641759
- Language: English
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Wildcat Dome
$28.00 Add to cartAn epic novel of postwar Japan–a powerful reckoning with empire, catastrophe, trauma, and truth-telling–by the author of Territory of Light.
Mitch and Yonko haven’t spoken in a year. As children, t- Author: Tsushima, Yuko
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0374610746
- Language: English
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Goodnight Tokyo
$18.00 Add to cartA symphony of interconnected lives that offers a compelling reflection on life in modern-day metropolises at the intersection of isolation and intimacy in Yoshida’s English-language debut
Set over seve
- Author: Yoshida, Atsuhiro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 9798889660279
- Language: English
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Suggested in the Stars
$16.95 Add to cartIt’s hard to believe there could be a more enjoyable novel than Scattered All Over the Earth–Yoko Tawada’s rollicking, touching, cheerfully dystopian novel about friendship and climate change–but su
- Author: Tawada, Yoko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0811237931
- Language: English
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Under the Eye of the Big Bird
$27.00 Add to cartFrom one of Japan’s most brilliant and sensitive contemporary novelists, this speculative fiction masterpiece envisions an Earth where humans are nearing extinction, and rewrites our understanding of … [more below]
- Author: Kawakami, Hiromi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1593766114
- Language: English
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The Beggar Student
$12.95 Add to cartA fictional writer in his thirties named Osamu Dazai has just mailed his publisher an awful manuscript, filling him with dread and shame. Wandering along a river in a nearby park in suburban Tokyo, he
- Author: Dazai, Osamu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 081123858X
- Language: English
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Dead-End Memories: Stories
$26.00 Read moreA New York Times Notable Book
“This is a supremely hopeful book, one that feels important because it shows that happiness, while not always easy, is still a subject worthy of art.” –Brandon Taylor, T- Author: Yoshimoto, Banana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1640093699
- Language: English
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This Is Amiko, Do You Copy?
$14.95 Add to cartA surprising and moving novella about a misunderstood neurodivergent girl from one of Japan’s most acclaimed young writers, the author of The Woman in the Purple Skirt
A sensitive and tender depiction- Series: Japanese Novellas
- Author: Imamura, Natsuko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1782279792
- Language: English
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Under the Eye of the Big Bird
$27.00 Read moreFrom one of Japan’s most brilliant and sensitive contemporary novelists, this speculative fiction masterpiece envisions an Earth where humans are nearing extinction, and rewrites our understanding of … [more below]
- Author: Kawakami, Hiromi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1593766114
- Language: English
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Suggested in the Stars
$16.95 Add to cartIt’s hard to believe there could be a more enjoyable novel than Scattered All Over the Earth–Yoko Tawada’s rollicking, touching, cheerfully dystopian novel about friendship and climate change–but su
- Author: Tawada, Yoko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0811237931
- Language: English
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Goodnight Tokyo
$18.00 Add to cartA symphony of interconnected lives that offers a compelling reflection on life in modern-day metropolises at the intersection of isolation and intimacy in Yoshida’s English-language debut
Set over seve
- Author: Yoshida, Atsuhiro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 9798889660279
- 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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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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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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Monkey New Writing from Japan: Volume 4: Music
$20.00 Add to cartFor 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
