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- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Cat lovers will delight in the thoughts of a cat whose particular joy in life is commenting on the folly of human beings. Based on a nameless cat’s observations of upper-middle-class Japanese society of the Meiji era, the essence...
- Location(s): Kyoto
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Contemporary
Perfect for fans of Jenny Han and Kasie West, I Love You So Mochi is a delightfully sweet and irrepressibly funny novel from accomplished author Sarah Kuhn. As sweet and satisfying as actual mochi… a tender love story wrapped...
- Location(s): Shinjuku
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
It’s just before New Year, and Frank, an overweight American tourist, has hired Kenji to take him on a guided tour of Tokyo’s nightlife. But, Frank’s behaviour is so odd that Kenji begins to entertain a horrible suspicion: his...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Contemporary
Fifteen-year-old Aiko Cassidy, a bicultural girl with cerebral palsy, grew up in Michigan with her single mother. When a stepfather and a baby half sister enter her life, she finds herself on the margins. Having recently contacted her biological...
Junko Tabei Masters the Mountains
- Location(s): Japan, Mount Everest
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
From the world of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls comes the historical novel based on the life of Junko Tabei, the first female climber to summit Mount Everest. Junko is bad at athletics. Really bad. Other students laugh...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father’s dark prophesy. The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Autofiction, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Sisters Rei, Kiki and Ai have always had to look out for one another – but life has taken them on very different paths. Eldest daughter Rei is spiky and sensible, distracting herself with an all-consuming job at a...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Current
In Killing Commendatore, a thirty-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When he discovers a strange painting in the attic, he...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
Kitchen juxtaposes two tales about mothers, transsexuality, bereavement, kitchens, love and tragedy in contemporary Japan. It is a startlingly original first work by Japan’s brightest young literary star and is now a cult film. When Kitchen was first published...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Turn 19th Century
A young student makes himself the acolyte of an old man he calls ‘Sensei’. Bitter, cynical and indolent, Sensei has withdrawn from society. The young student is at once attracted by these qualities and also deeply puzzled. Not even...
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