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Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): In Translation, Fiction, Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
The WSJ commented: “Part psychological thriller, part murder mystery-it is audacious in conception and brilliant in execution.” The Globe and Mail said the book was “emerging as one of the most praised novels of the year.” Set in a...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
An elegiac story of two young cousins coming of age at the Japanese seaside, Goodbye, Tsugumi is an enchanting novel. Maria is the only daughter of an unmarried woman. She has grown up at the seaside alongside her cousin...
Jerusalem Ablaze: Stories of Love and Other Obsessions
- Location(s): Los Angeles, Israel, Québec, Tokyo
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Contemporary
In Jerusalem’s Old City a young priest and a dominatrix converse in the dying light; on Oregon’s windswept coast a fragile woman discovers a body washed up on the beach after a storm; and in Postwar Japan a young...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Alex thought running away would make everything better. Six thousand miles from the mistakes he’s made and the people he’s hurt, Tokyo seems like the perfect escape. A new life, a new Alex. The bright lights and dark corners...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Jill is reeling from a bad relationship, and she decides to depart for Japan for a fresh start. She falls in love with the culture, and Yusuke Yamashiro. Although she is American, they decide to marry and she soon...
- Location(s): Japan, Tokyo
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s onwards
When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Four women work nights together at a bento box factory on the outskirts of Tokyo, and form a friendship based on their mutual desperation at the quality of their home lives. Yamamoto, a young wife and mother kills her...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Roppongi is an ‘adventure-travel-fiction’ story, exploring the crazy and often dangerous world which is living and working as a foreigner in the Roppongi nightlife industry of Tokyo, Japan. The novel follows the (mis)adventures of its travel-addicted protagonist Zack, and...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
In Tokyo – one of the world’s largest megacities – a stray cat is wending her way through the back alleys. And, with each detour, she brushes up against the seemingly disparate lives of the city-dwellers, connecting them in...
- Location(s): Japan, Tokyo
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Behind the scenes a killer is lurking… When Tokyo-based Londoner Josie finds a body under the cherry blossom, she sets out to track down the killer. But she finds that everyone has a secret and no one can be...