The Bear and the Paving Stone
By: Toshiyuki Horie
3.25
Format: 123 pages, Paperback
Winner of the prestigious Akutagawa Prize, three dream-like tales of memory and war Visiting a frie…
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1. Ms Ice Sandwich
By: Mieko Kawakami , Louise Heal Kawai
3.78
Format: 92 pages, Paperback
A quixotic and funny tale about first love – from the Akutagawa Prize-winning author. Ms Ice San… read more
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- asian literature
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2. Spring Garden
By: Tomoka Shibasaki , Polly Barton
3.27
Format: 161 pages, Kindle Edition
Winner of the Akutagawa Prize, a sharp, photo-realistic novella of memory and thwarted hope'He'd co… read more
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"Avoiding bother was Taro's governing principle. It wasn't that he was a stick-in-the-mud. It was just that, rather than putting himself out in order to get the more pleasing or interesting things he …"-Tomoka Shibasaki, Spring Garden
"His home town as it existed in his memory seemed distant to him, like something that belonged to another person. It was almost as though he'd mistaken a place he'd seen on TV or in a film for a thing…"-Tomoka Shibasaki, Spring Garden
3. Slow Boat
By: David Boyd , Hideo Furukawa
3.37
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A startling novella from the heir to Haruki Murakami and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Trapped in Tokyo, … read more
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4. Inspector Imanishi Investigates
By: Seichō Matsumoto , Beth Cary
4.08
Format: 234 pages,
In a police procedural by Japan's foremost master of mystery, Inspector Imanishi Eitaro, a typicall… read more
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5. 文豪ストレイドッグス 9 [Bungō Stray Dogs 9]
By: Kafka Asagiri , Sango Harukawa , 朝霧 カフカ , None
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
Heng Bang noJie niBai Jing gaLuo chirutaimurimitsutogaPo ruZhong , Dun haChou Di Jie Chuan toChuan … read more
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6. The Master Key
By: Masako Togawa , None
4.38
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
Fans of P.D. James, Robert Barnard and other literate writers in the genre will welcome US publicat… read more
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7. Record of a Night Too Brief
By: Hiromi Kawakami , Lucy North
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Akutagawa Prize-winning stories from the author of Strange Weather in Tokyo. In these three hau… read more
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8. Idol, Burning
By: Rin Usami
3.23
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
The novel that lit the Japanese publishing world on fire: From a breathtaking up-and-coming writer,… read more
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"His existence and my witnessing of it were all I asked for."-Rin Usami, Idol, Burning
"Maybe that was how a home broke down over the years, as the sound of doors slamming and chairs roughly scraping the floor built up like dust, and the slow drip of gnashing teeth and resentful grumbli…"-Rin Usami, Idol, Burning
"Idol groups generally assigned each member an official color, which would be used for the light sticks that fans would hold up to show your support at a performance or for other individual merch. My …"-Rin Usami, Idol, Burning
9. The Hole
By: Hiroko Oyamada
3.49
Format: 92 pages, Paperback
Asa’s husband is transferring jobs, and his new office is located near his family’s home in the cou… read more
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"I moved out here with my husband."-Hiroko Oyamada, The Hole
"It's just, families are strange things, aren't they? You have this couple: one man, one woman. A male and a female, if you will. They mate, and why? To leave children behind. And what are the childre…"-Hiroko Oyamada, The Hole
"Abrí la ventana y oí a las cigarras cantar. No sé si era porque estaba en el campo y había muchos árboles o por la influencia del clima de ese año, pero nunca las había oído con tanta intensidad. Era…"-Hiroko Oyamada, The Hole
10. This is Amiko, Do You Copy?
By: Natsuko Imamura
3.63
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
Other people don’t seem to understand Amiko. Whether eating curry rice with her hands at school or … read more
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- literature
- novella
- asia
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- japanese literature
- japan
"Every time she cried, "I love you!" the words shattered her heart without mercy."-Natsuko Imamura, This is Amiko, Do You Copy?
11. Weasels in the Attic
By: Hiroko Oyamada
3.43
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
From the acclaimed author of The Hole and The Factory, a thrilling and mysterious work that explore… read more
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- literature
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- short stories
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- contemporary
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"We meet at school, or work, or maybe a store. Wherever it is, there's just a random group of individuals, right? Within that group, you find your mate. If you were in a different group, you' d end up…"-Hiroko Oyamada, Weasels in the Attic
12. There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job
By: Kikuko Tsumura
3.60
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Convenience Store Woman meets My Year of Rest and Relaxation in this strange, compelling, darkly fu… read more
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- fiction
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- japanese literature
- japan
"Although I was also aware that in a workplace context, people could become bad sorts as and when the situation required, so maybe it was more accurate to say he wasn't always a bad sort."-Kikuko Tsumura, There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job
13. My Annihilation
By: Fuminori Nakamura
3.34
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
What transforms a person into a killer? Can it be something as small as a suggestion? Turn this … read more
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- japanese literature
- fiction
- japan
"Aristotle, the scholar from ancient times, supposedly said "Even gods cannot change the past." In which case, the gods are useless."-Fuminori Nakamura, My Annihilation
"Take a look around the internet. The ditches into which all evil is eventually swept. People hide their faces and type away without a care, no self-awareness for how their words will be picked up by …"-Fuminori Nakamura, My Annihilation
14. The White Book
By: Han Kang
3.81
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize From Booker Prize-winner and literary p… read more
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- asia
- short stories
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- contemporary
- asian literature
"Now and then, the passage of time seems acutely apparent. Physical pain always sharpens the awareness."-Han Kang, The White Book
"This life needed only one of us to live it. If you had lived beyond those first few hours, I would not be living now. My life means yours is impossible."-Han Kang, The White Book
"And she frequently forgot, That her body (all our bodies) is a house of sand. That it shattered and is shattering still. Slipping stubbornly through fingers."-Han Kang, The White Book
"There is none of us whom life regards with any partiality. Sleet falls as she walks these streets, holding this knowledge inside her. Sleet that leaves cheeks and eyebrows heavy with moisture. Everyt…"-Han Kang, The White Book
15. The End of the Moment We Had
By: Toshiki Okada
2.80
Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition
On the eve of the Iraq War, a man and a woman meet in a nightclub in Tokyo. They go to a love hotel… read more
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- literature
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- japanese literature
- japan
16. Tokyo Ueno Station
By: Yū Miri
3.47
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Emperor, Kazu’s life is tied by a series of coincid… read more
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"There’s that sound again."-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station
"To speak is to stumble, to hesitate, to detour and hit dead ends. To listen is straightforward. You can always just listen."-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station
"I was always tired. There was never a time I was not tired. Not when life had its claws in me, and not when I escaped from it. I did not live with intent, I only lived. But that’s all over now."-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station
"I used to think life was like a book: you turn the first page, and there’s the next, and as you go on turning page after page, eventually you reach the last one. But life is nothing like a story in a…"-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station
17. Mina's Matchbox
By: Yōko Ogawa
3.85
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, here is a hypnotic, int… read more
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"Quant à l'endroit où se trouvait mon père, le jour de ses funérailles, ma mère me l'avait indiqué. C'est un peu loin, mais un jour ou l'autre nous irons le rejoindre, il n'y a pas à craindre de s'éga…"-Yōko Ogawa, Mina's Matchbox
18. Death Doesn't Forget (Taipei Night Market #4)
By: Ed Lin
3.45
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Jing-nan, owner of a popular night market food stall, is framed for a string of high-profile murder… read more
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- fiction
19. The Little Sparrow Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #6)
By: Seishi Yokomizo
4.01
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
An old friend of Kosuke Kindaichi's invites the scruffy detective to visit the remote mountain vill… read more
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- japanese literature
- fiction
- japan
20. Goodnight Tokyo
By: Atsuhiro Yoshida
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A symphony of interconnected lives that offers a compelling reflection on life in modern-day metrop… read more
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21. The Bear and the Paving Stone
By: Toshiyuki Horie
3.25
Format: 123 pages, Paperback
Winner of the prestigious Akutagawa Prize, three dream-like tales of memory and war Visiting a frie… read more
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