Divorce (Yeoyu, #4)
By: Kim Soom
3.92
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
A poet reflects on the lives of the different generations of women around her as she contemplates h…
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1. Schoolgirl
By: Osamu Dazai , Allison Markin Powell , Adam L. Kern , None
4.02
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Osamu Dazai's 1939 novella depicts a day in the life of a Tokyo schoolgirl. Propelling Dazai into t… read more
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- short stories
- contemporary
"I yearned for everything long gone."-Osamu Dazai, Schoolgirl
"Sometimes happiness arrives one night too late."-Osamu Dazai, Schoolgirl
"Mornings are grey. Always the same. Absolutely empty."-Osamu Dazai, Schoolgirl
"Good night. I'm Cinderella without her prince. Do you know where to find me in Tokyo? You won't see me again."-Osamu Dazai, Schoolgirl
2. The Diving Pool: Three Novellas
By: Yōko Ogawa , Stephen Snyder , Stephen Snyder
3.69
Format: 164 pages, Paperback
From Akutagawa Award-winning author Yoko Ogawa comes a haunting trio of novellas about love, fertil… read more
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- asia
- short stories
- contemporary
"I couldn't reach him from here even if I tried."-Yōko Ogawa, The Diving Pool: Three Novellas
"When we grow up, we find ways to hide our anxieties, our loneliness, our fear and sorrow. But children hide nothing, putting everything into their tears, which they spread liberally about for the who…"-Yōko Ogawa, The Diving Pool: Three Novellas
"Since that time, I've had many similar moments, and I can never hear the words "family" and "home" without feeling that they sound strange, never simply hear them and let them go. When I stop to exam…"-Yōko Ogawa, The Diving Pool: Three Novellas
"I wonder how she broke the news to her husband. I don't really know what they talk about when I'm not around. In fact, I don't really understand couples at all. They seem like some sort of inexplicab…"-Yōko Ogawa, The Diving Pool: Three Novellas
3. 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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- asia
- contemporary
"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
4. Friendship For Grown-Ups
By: None
4.32
Format: 210 pages,
The Untouchable Apartment Kandagawa's relationship with Mano ended over four years ago, which is wh… read more
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6. Case Study
By: Graeme Macrae Burnet
3.60
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
“I have decided to write down everything that happens, because I feel, I suppose, I may be putting … read more
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- contemporary
"Forget about meaning’, he said. ‘Life’s not about meaning, it’s about experience."-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study
"It is impossible to walk behind someone on a narrow cliff path without the idea of shoving them over the edge crossing one’s mind."-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study
"To be in another country, speaking another language, was to be another person, and in being another person I felt for the first time that I was myself."-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study
"Her handbag, he said, was found on the scene. I made a mental note to carry out a thorough spring clean of contents of my own bag before throwing myself in front of any trains."-Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study
7. Diavola
By: Jennifer Marie Thorne
3.95
Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition
Jennifer Thorne skewers all-too-familiar family dynamics in this sly, wickedly funny vacation-Gothi… read more
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- contemporary
8. Lore Olympus: Volume Five (Lore Olympus, #5)
By: Rachel Smythe
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Scandalous gossip, wild parties, and forbidden love--the Greek tale of Hades and Persephone gets a … read more
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9. The Last Children of Tokyo
By: Yōko Tawada
3.43
Format: 138 pages, Paperback
Yoshiro thinks he might never die. A hundred years old and counting, he is one of Japan's many 'old… read more
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- asia
"Unable to turn back the clock, they let themselves be turned."-Yōko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo
"She's always hated good-byes and as she got older she hated them even more."-Yōko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo
"With children like this having children of their own, it was no wonder the world was full of children."-Yōko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo
"งานหลักของพวกสมาชิกสภาคือ การปรับเปลี่ยกฎหมาย กฎหมายนั้นเปลี่ยนตลอดเวลา จึงแน่นอนว่าถูกปรับเปลี่ยน . แต่ใครเปลี่ยนเพื่ออะไร เปลี่ยนอย่างไรนั้น ไม่มีการสื่อให้รู้เลย ประชาชนใช้ชีวิตจัดระเบียบตัวเองในสภาพมองไม่เห็นกฎหมาย …"-Yōko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo
10. Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)
By: Satoshi Yagisawa
3.65
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
The moving international sensation about new beginnings, human connection, and the joy of reading. … read more
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- contemporary
"It hurts to realize that it might be too late now for anything but regret."-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)
"And here I am spending a sleepless night in a strange place. We might not be far from home, but I feel lonely."-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)
"In my dream, I was an android maid living in a city in the not-so- distant future. In that neighbourhood, all the buildings were made of used books."-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)
"No es cuestión de ser expertos o novatos. Si lo plantea así, ni siquiera yo lo soy tanto. Lo importante es sentir emociones al toparse con un libro."-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)
11. 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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- asia
- contemporary
"Every time she cried, "I love you!" the words shattered her heart without mercy."-Natsuko Imamura, This is Amiko, Do You Copy?
12. Lore Olympus: Volume Six (Lore Olympus, #6)
By: Rachel Smythe
4.51
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Witness what the gods do after dark in the sixth volume of a stylish and contemporary reimagining o… read more
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13. Butter
By: Asako Yuzuki
3.60
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist inten… read more
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- contemporary
"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
14. I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki
By: Baek Se-hee
3.28
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
The South Korean runaway bestseller, debut author Baek Sehee's intimate therapy memoir, as recommen… read more
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- asia
- contemporary
"Togetherness means altruism, and altruism is what saves us from selfishness."-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki
"For example, when you’re co-dependent on your partner you resent them, but when you leave your partner, you feel anxious and bereft."-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki
"Fear increases when it's something that you keep to yourself. Instead of suffering alone, it can often be good to share it with someone else."-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki
"What matters isn't what people say but what you like and find joy in. I hope you focus less on how you look to other people and more on fulfilling your true desires."-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki
15. Dust Child
By: Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally bestselling author of The Mountains Sing, a suspenseful and moving saga ab… read more
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- asia
- contemporary
"Persistence turns a bar of iron into a needle."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child
"With the fire of war burning, it needed more men as firewood."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child
"Everyone came from dust and would one day return to dust. Life is transitory, after all."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child
"For him, poetry was the language of the soul. Writers could hide their feelings behind fiction, but had to bare their soul to poetry."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child
16. Your Utopia
By: Bora Chung
3.65
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
By the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny, in another thrilling translation from the … read more
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- asia
- short stories
17. The Disaster Tourist
By: Yun Ko-eun
3.37
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
An eco-thriller with a fierce feminist sensibility, The Disaster Tourist engages with the global di… read more
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- asia
- contemporary
18. The Final Curtain (Detective Kaga, #4)
By: Keigo Higashino
4.13
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Malice and Newcomer, a confounding murder in Tokyo is connected to the… read more
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- asia
19. A Perfect Day to Be Alone
By: Nanae Aoyama
3.12
Format: 160 pages, ebook
It was raining when I arrived at the house. The walls of my room were lined with cat photos, set in… read more
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- asia
- contemporary
"I feel like maybe I should use up all my sadness now while I'm young. So, I don't end up all miserable when I'm old."-Nanae Aoyama, A Perfect Day to Be Alone
"Is that how it feels to you? Oh, you bet. Pain, suffering - that stuff's always scary, no matter how long you've been around."-Nanae Aoyama, A Perfect Day to Be Alone
20. The Factory
By: Hiroko Oyamada
3.34
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
The English-language debut of Hiroko Oyamada—one of the most powerfully strange young voices in Jap… read more
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- contemporary
"As I opened the basement-level door, I thought I could smell birds."-Hiroko Oyamada, The Factory
"I didn’t have to answer any weird questions about what I was reading, or hear anyone’s thoughts about which 7-Eleven bento they liked best."-Hiroko Oyamada, The Factory
"All I could see was a meaningless arrangement of squiggles and dots, symbols and patterns, running on endlessly. Words are such unstable things."-Hiroko Oyamada, The Factory
"Life has nothing to do with work and work has no real bearing on life. I used to think they were connected, but now I can see there’s just no way."-Hiroko Oyamada, The Factory
21. Asa: The Girl Who Turned into a Pair of Chopsticks
By: Natsuko Imamura
3.47
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The startling first collection of dark, surreal, and unsettling stories from the international priz… read more
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- contemporary
22. A Magical Girl Retires
By: Park Seolyeon
3.63
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A millennial turned magical girl must combat climate change and credit card debt in this delightful… read more
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- contemporary
"The person I loved and respected the most in the world called me a genius; therefore, I was a genius."-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires
"If I could become a magical girl at twenty-nine, then surely it was never too late to become a watchmaker."-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires
"Grandfather, I just love watches. When I look at them, I just... It's like they're a whole universe. The universe itself. Even the smallest watch."-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires
"She had a point. I mean, when did my own girlhood begin and end, exactly? I couldn't quite circle a lasso around it, but I knew, at least, when it had ended. Three years ago, when Grandfather died."-Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires
23. The Bookshop Woman
By: Nanako Hanada
3.60
Format: 204 pages, ebook
A love story to climbing all the way down a book's rope, free diving to its bottom, and then resurf… read more
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- asia
- contemporary
24. Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight
By: Riku Onda
3.11
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
Set in Tokyo over the course of one night, Aki and Hiro have decided to be together one last time i… read more
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- contemporary
25. Scattered All Over the Earth
By: Yōko Tawada
3.27
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now re… read more
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- contemporary
"People are always saying the humanities are dead so it's strange how many conferences there are."-Yōko Tawada, Scattered All Over the Earth
26. A Sorceress Comes to Call
By: T. Kingfisher
4.24
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A dark retelling of the Brothers Grimm's Goose Girl, rife with secrets, murder, and forbidden magic… read more
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27. Time Differences
By: Yōko Tawada
3.42
Format: 40 pages, Chapbook
Mamoru wakes up at 9am in Berlin, eats breakfast, and then sets off to teach a Japanese language cl… read more
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- short stories
28. Spring Sleepers
By: Kyoko Yoshida
3.52
Format: 44 pages, Chapbook
Yuki has not slept in two months. He's been infected with genuine insomnia -- a condition that is s… read more
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- short stories
29. Divorce (Yeoyu, #4)
By: Kim Soom
3.92
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
A poet reflects on the lives of the different generations of women around her as she contemplates h… read more
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- asia
- short stories
- contemporary
30. Take My Voice (IYAGI, #2)
By: Chung Serang
3.94
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
"The bloodstains on the linoleum were impossible to remove completely." A madcap, sci-fi, found-… read more
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- short stories
31. For That Which Cannot Be Restored (IYAGI, #8)
By: Park Wanseo
3.47
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
"I simply shrugged at her like a westerner, which did nothing to temper the bottled-up shame and si… read more
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