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US: Corgi, 1989. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. A body with underworld connections lies sprawled in the Tama River. Araki, a hardened investigative journalist, looks into the circumstances behind the death and soon finds himself… Read more about this item

US: Penguin Publishing Group, 2009. Paperback. New. Notes From Your Bookseller Woven with themes that are wholly Japanese, this collection of short storie s boasts characters from the enthralling feudal period of Japan and beyond. And yet, the humanity found within each tale is timeless and universal, th e humor is on point and the imagination makes for… Read more about this item

US: Doubleday, 2021. Paperback. New. The uplifting new cat novel from the million-copy bestselling author of The Travelling Cat Chronicles 'Quirky and life-enhancing' THE TIMES Biggest Books of the Autumn 2023 _____________________ Against changing seasons in Japan, seven cats weave their way through their owners' lives. - A needy kitten rescued from the recycling bin teaches a new… Read more about this item

Faber & Faber, 2017. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

US: Faber & Faber, 2021. Paperback. New. ‘The Sun always has ways to reach us.' From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding o bservational qualities, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come i n to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopef ul a customer will… Read more about this item

US: Picador, 2022. Paperback. New. From the bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs and international literary sensation Mieko Kawakami, comes a sharp and illuminating novel about a four teen-year-old boy subjected to relentless bullying. In Heaven, a fourteen-year old boy is tormented for having a lazy eye. Inst ead of resisting, he chooses to suffer in silence. The… Read more about this item

US: Pushkin Press, 2023. Paperback. New. Two babies are left in a Tokyo station coin locker and survive against the odds, but their lives are forever tainted by this inauspicious start. As th ey grow up, they join the ranks of Toxitown: a district of addicts, freaks and prostitutes. While one becomes a bisexual rock star searching for… Read more about this item

US: Picador, 2023. Paperback. New. Toshikazu Kawaguchi's poignant Before We Say Goodbye, translated from Japan ese by Geoffrey Trousselot, explores the age-old question: what would you d o if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time? The regulars at the magical Cafe Funiculi Funicula are well… Read more about this item

US: FABER ET FABER, 2023. Paperback. New. From the author of international bestseller Convenience Store Woman comes a collection of short fiction: weird, out of this world and like nothing you 've read before. An engaged couple falls out over the husband's dislike of clothes and objec ts made from human materials; a young girl finds herself deeply… Read more about this item

US: Random House UK, 2016. Paperback. New. Haruki Murakami's first two novels, available for the first time in English outside Japan. With a new introduction by the author. 'If you're the sort of guy who raids the refrigerators of silent kitchens a t three o'clock in the morning, you can only write accordingly. That's who I am.' Hear… Read more about this item

US: Vintage, 2022. Paperback. New. Five killers. One train journey. But who will survive? An original and prop ulsive thriller from a massive Japanese bestseller. Satoshi looks like an innocent schoolboy but he is really a viciously cunni ng psychopath. Kimura's young son is in a coma thanks to him, and Kimura ha s tracked him onto the… Read more about this item

US: Tuttle Publishing, 1905. Paperback. New. Written over the course of 1904-6, Soseki's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirizes the follies of upper-middle-class Japanese society during the Mei ji era. With acerbic wit and sardonic perspective, it follows the whimsical adventures of a world-weary stray kitten who comments on the follies and f oibles of the people… Read more about this item

US: FABER ET FABER, 2023. Paperback. New. WINNER OF THE AKUTAGAWA PRIZE 'Usami so successfully depicts the consequences of pure obsession' Guardian 'Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand what it is like to be a teenage girl' Catherine Prasifka High-school student Akari has only one passion in her life: her oshi, her idol. His name is… Read more about this item

US: Soft Skull, 2020. Paperback. New.

US: Vintage, 2009. Paperback. New. A new copy. A mesmerising, epic, utterly involving masterpiece from Haruki Murakami The year is 1Q84. This is the real world, there is no doubt about that. But in this world, there are two moons in the sky. In this world, the fates of two people, Tengo and Aomame, are closely inter twined.… Read more about this item

US: Metropolitan Books, 2000. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting.The spine remains undamaged. In her debut novel for adults, Kyoko Mori has drawn on ancient myths, reworked with her hallmark lush and lyrical prose, to probe the eternal question:… Read more about this item

US: Counterpoint, 2010. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Twelve years have passed since Kei's husband, Rei, disappeared and she was left alone with her three-year-old daughter. Her new relationship with a ma rried man--the antithesis… Read more about this item

US: University of Washington Pre, 2015. Paperback. Like New. Yokohama, California, originally released in 1949, is the first published c ollection of short stories by a Japanese American. Set in a fictional commu nity, these linked stories are alive with the people, gossip, humor, and le gends of Japanese America in the 1930s and 1940s. Replaces ISBN 9780295961675… Read more about this item

US: Vintage, 2004. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Who is Sei Shonagon The tenth-century author of The Pillow Book A woman of mixed-race parentage, surviving life in modern Japan Or a voice from behind a… Read more about this item

US: Trafalgar Square, 2000. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition.Pages are intact a nd not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Kazuo Mori, PI, is struggling to make ends meet. When he falls in with a prostitute called Angel, he is soon struggling for survival in a… Read more about this item