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Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight

Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight
  • Author(s): Riku Onda, Alison Watts (translator)
  • 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...

Goodbye Tsugumi

Goodbye Tsugumi
  • Author(s): Banana Yoshimoto
  • 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

Jerusalem Ablaze: Stories of Love and Other Obsessions
  • Author(s): Orlando Ortega-Medina
  • 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...

Last Stop Tokyo

Last Stop Tokyo
  • Author(s): James Buckler
  • 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...

Losing Kei

Losing Kei
  • Author(s): Suzanne Kamata
  • 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...

Norwegian Wood

Norwegian Wood
  • Author(s): Haruki Murakami
  • 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...

Out

Out
  • Author(s): Natsuo Kirino
  • 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...

Roppongi

Roppongi
  • Author(s): Nick Vasey
  • 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...

The Cat and The City

The Cat and The City
  • Author(s): Nick Bradley
  • 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...

The Cherry Blossom Murder

The Cherry Blossom Murder
  • Author(s): Fran Pickering
  • 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...

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