World Literature - Japan
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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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Solo Dance
$19.99 Add to cartA powerful novel about the LGBTQ rights movement and gay love in Japan and Taiwan, from the most important queer voice of East Asia’s millennial generation.
Cho Norie, twenty-seven and originally from
- Author: Kotomi, Li
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1642861146
- Language: English
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Love at Six Thousand Degrees
$17.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE MISHIMA YUKIO PRIZE
A WORLD LITERATURE TODAY NOTABLE BOOK 2023An ordinary housewife finds herself haunted by visions of a mushroom cloud and abruptly leaves her husband and son to travel
- Author: Kashimada, Maki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1609458192
- Language: English
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Weasels in the Attic
$13.95 Add to cartIn three interconnected scenes, Hiroko Oyamada revisits the same set of characters at different junctures in their lives. In the back room of a pet store full of rare and exotic fish, old friends disc… [more below]
- Author: Oyamada, Hiroko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0811231186
- Language: English
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The Forest Brims Over
$16.95 Add to cartA woman turns herself into a forest after long being co-opted to serve as the subject of her husband’s novels–this surrealist fable challenges traditional gender attitudes and exploitation in the lit… [more below]
- Author: Ayase, Maru
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1640095373
- Language: English
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Dead-End Memories: Stories
$16.95 Add to cartJapan’s internationally celebrated master storyteller returns with five stories of women on their way to healing that vividly portrays the blissful moments and everyday sorrows that surround us in eve… [more below]
- Author: Yoshimoto, Banana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1640096108
- Language: English
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Dragon Palace
$18.95 Add to cartIncluded in The New Yorker’s Best Books of 2023
Stories from a Japanese master of transformative fiction, where reality,
myth, and human foibles meet shifting dimensions of gender, biology,
and destin- Author: Kawakami, Hiromi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: 19-Sep-23
- ISBN10: 1737625350
- Language: English
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Scattered All Over the Earth
$16.95 Add to cartWelcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now remembered as “the land of sushi.” Hiruko, its former citizen and a climate refugee herself, has a job … [more below]
- Author: Tawada, Yoko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0811229289
- Language: English
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The Premonition
$24.00 Read moreThe internationally beloved author of Kitchen and Dead-End Memories returns with a beautiful and heartfelt story of a young woman haunted by her childhood and the inescapable bitterness that inevitabl… [more below]
- Author: Yoshimoto, Banana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1640093710
- Language: English
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The Flowers of Buffoonery
$14.95 Add to cartThe Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanitarium where Yozo Oba–the narrator of No Longer Human at a younger age–is being kept after a failed suicide attempt. While he is convalescing, his f
- Author: Dazai, Osamu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0811234541
- Language: English
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Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
$17.99 Add to cartThe wise and charming international bestseller and hit Japanese movie–about a young woman who loses everything but finds herself–a tale of new beginnings, romantic and family relationships, and the
- Author: Yagisawa, Satoshi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 04, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063278677
- Language: English
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A Woman of Pleasure
$17.95 Add to cartAn unforgettable novel of fearless women banding together to pursue the lives they want, inspired by the real-life historic Japanese courtesan strike
In 1903, a fifteen-year-old girl named Aoi Ichi is- Author: Murata, Kiyoko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 27, 2024
- ISBN10: 1640095799
- Language: English
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Self-Portraits: Stories
$15.95 Add to cart“Art dies the moment it acquires authority.” So said Japan’s quintessential rebel writer Osamu Dazai, who, disgusted with the hypocrisy of every kind of establishment, from the nation’s obsolete arist
- Author: Dazai, Osamu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 06, 2024
- ISBN10: 0811232263
- Language: English
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Lady Joker, Volume 2
$18.95 Add to cart“A novel that portrays with devastating immensity how those on the dark fringes of society can be consumed by the darkness of their own hearts.”
This second ha
–Yoko Ogawa, author of The Memory Police- Author: Takamura, Kaoru
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1641293950
- Language: English
