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No Longer Human
A completely new translation of Osamu Dazai's great masterpiece by award-winning translator Juliet Winters Carpenter."A journey to hell with Osamu Dazai, Japan's ultimate bad boy …
Kamusari Tales Told at Night
From Shion Miura, award-winning author of The Easy Life in Kamusari, comes a spirit-lifting novel about tradition, first love, and ancient lore in a Japanese mountain village. It’s …
The Great Passage
An award-winning story of love, friendship, and the power of human connection. Kohei Araki believes that a dictionary is a boat to carry us across the sea of words. But after …
Eat Sleep Sit
At the age of 30, Kaoru Nonomura left his family, his girlfriend, and his job as a designer in Tokyo to undertake a year of ascetic training at Eiheiji, one of the most rigorous …
The Easy Life in Kamusari
From Shion Miura, the award-winning author of The Great Passage, comes a rapturous novel where the contemporary and the traditional meet amid the splendor of Japan’s mountain way …
Secret Rendezvous
'A gorgeously entertaining, provocative book' Chicago TribuneIt is 4am when the ambulance comes to take the man's wife away - although no-one has called it, and there is nothing …
At the End of the Matinee
Bestselling author Keiichiro Hirano offers a timeless ode to love’s fragility and its resilience in this delicate, award-winning novel. Classical guitarist Satoshi Makino has …
A Woman of Pleasure
"Even though A Woman of Pleasure exposes the brutal life of sex workers, a dynamic optimism runs throughout the book. Only Kiyoko Murata can convey this world." --Yoko Ogawa, …
An I-Novel
Minae Mizumura’s An I-Novel is a semi-autobiographical work that takes place over the course of a single day in the 1980s. Minae is a Japanese expatriate graduate student who has …
At the Edge of the Wood
When his wife returns to her parents house to have their second child, an unnamed narrator and his son are left to manage by themselves. Instead of absence, what the father and son …
At the Edge of the Woods
"Balances wonder and disquiet with incomparable grace and precision...Ono continues to captivate." --Bryan Washington, author of MemorialIn an unnamed foreign country, a family of …
White Elephant
Juxtaposing the inner voices of two sisters in an elite Japanese family, Idemitsu deftly illustrates the problems of being female. Hiroko, desperate to uphold the family legacy, …