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Life Ceremony: Stories
$17.00 Add to cartThe long-awaited first short story-collection by the author of the cult sensation Convenience Store Woman, tales of weird love, heartfelt friendships, and the unsettling nature of human existence
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- Author: Murata, Sayaka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 02, 2023
- ISBN10: 0802161340
- Language: English
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Strange Weather in Tokyo
$16.95 Add to cartShortlisted for the 2013 Man Asian Literary Prize, Strange Weather in Tokyo is a story of loneliness and love that defies age.
Tsukiko, thirty-eight, works in an office and lives alone. One night, she- Author: Kawakami, Hiromi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 14, 2017
- ISBN10: 1640090169
- Language: English
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The Japanese Mind: Understanding Contemporary Japanese Culture
$16.95 Add to cartIn The Japanese Mind, Roger Davies offers Westerners an insightful guide to understanding the unique aspects of Japanese culture.
Readers of this book will develop a comprehensive grasp of Japanese so- Author: Davies, Roger J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 15, 2002
- ISBN10: 0804832951
- Language: English
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The Mantis
$27.00 Read moreFrom the award-winning, internationally bestselling author of Bullet Train and Three Assassins, The Mantis is a propulsive thriller set in Tokyo’s criminal underworld about the intrigue and tensions a… [more below]
- Author: Isaka, Kotaro
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1419769472
- Language: English
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Parasyte Full Color Collection 3
$19.99 Add to cartThe sci-fi horror manga classic returns, with an updated translation and lettering, in a fully-colorized, premium-quality hardcover for the first time! If you’ve never read the story of Shinichi and t… [more below]
- Series: Parasyte Full Color Collection
- Author: Iwaaki, Hitoshi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 1646516419
- Language: English
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Snow Country
$17.00 Add to cartThis masterpiece from the Nobel Prize-winning author and acclaimed writer of Thousand Cranes is a powerful tale of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western Japan. – “Kawabata’s novels are a
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Kawabata, Yasunari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 30, 1996
- ISBN10: 0679761047
- Language: English
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The Guest Cat
$14.95 Add to cartA bestseller in France and winner of Japan’s Kiyama Shohei Literary Award, The Guest Cat, by the acclaimed poet Takashi Hiraide, is a subtly moving and exceptionally beautiful novel about the transien
- Author: Hiraide, Takashi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 28 2014
- ISBN10: 0811221504
- Language: English
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Neuromancer
$28.00 Add to cartA deluxe hardcover edition of the pioneering cyberpunk novel that predicted our obsession with the Internet–part of Penguin Galaxy, a collectible series of six sci-fi/fantasy classics, featuring a se… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Galaxy
- Author: Gibson, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 25 2016
- ISBN10: 0143111604
- Language: English
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Mild Vertigo
$16.95 Add to cartThe apparently unremarkable Natsumi lives in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and two sons: she does the laundry, goes to the supermarket, visits friends, and gossips with neighbors. Tracing
- Author: Kanai, Mieko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 02, 2023
- ISBN10: 081123228X
- Language: English
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Sputnik Sweetheart
$17.00 Add to cartPart romance, part detective story, Sputnik Sweetheart tells the story of a tangled triangle of uniquely unrequited love.
Now with a new introduction from the author.
K is madly in love with his best f- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Murakami, Haruki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 09, 2002
- ISBN10: 0375726055
- Language: English
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Hit Parade of Tears: Stories
$19.95 Add to cartA new collection of stories from the cult author of Terminal Boredom
Izumi Suzuki had ideas about doing things differently, ideas that paid little attention to the laws of physics, or the laws of the- Series: Verso Fiction
- Author: Suzuki, Izumi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 1839768495
- 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 Devil’s Flute Murders
$15.95 Add to cart“Yokomizo at his absolute best… From the ominous opening through the brilliant final reveal, [he] ably blends suspense and fair-play detection… A classic of the genre.” —Publishers Weekly, starre… [more below]
- Series: Detective Kindaichi Mysteries
- Author: Yokomizo, Seishi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1782278842
- Language: English
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The Decagon House Murders
$17.95 Add to cart“Ayatsuji’s brilliant and richly atmospheric puzzle will appeal to fans of golden age whodunits… Every word counts, leading up to a jaw-dropping but logical reveal“ — Publishers Weekly
A hugely enj- Series: Pushkin Vertigo
- Author: Ayatsuji, Yukito
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 25, 2021
- ISBN10: 1782276343
- Language: English
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No Longer Human
$24.95 Add to cartMine has been a life of much shame. I can’t even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.
Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai’s No Longer Human narrat
- Author: Dazai, Osamu
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0811232433
- Language: English
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Parasyte Full Color Collection 4
$19.99 Add to cartThe sci-fi horror manga classic returns, with an updated translation and lettering, in a fully-colorized, premium-quality hardcover for the first time! If you’ve never read the story of Shinichi and t… [more below]
- Series: Parasyte Full Color Collection
- Author: Iwaaki, Hitoshi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 1646516427
- Language: English
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A Wild Sheep Chase
$18.00 Add to cartA New York Times bestselling author–and “a mythmaker for the millennium, a wiseacre wiseman” (New York Times Book Review)–delivers a surreal and elaborate quest that takes readers from Tokyo to the … [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Murakami, Haruki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 09 2002
- ISBN10: 037571894X
- 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 Phone Booth at the Edge of the World
$18.00 Add to cartLaura Imai Messina’s international bestselling novel is a story about grief, mourning, and the joy of survival, inspired by a real phone booth in Japan with its disconnected “wind” phone, a place of p… [more below]
- Author: Imai Messina, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1419754319
- Language: English
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Studio Ghibli: The Complete Works
$34.95 Read moreA beautiful, full-color dive into the history and future of Studio Ghibli, Japan’s preeminent animation house. In-depth looks at every one of their 26 feature films – including the latest, Earwig and … [more below]
- Author: Studio Ghibli
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1647291496
- Language: English
