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- Location(s): Kyoto, Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Haruka and Takashi are devoted to shopping and going out in Tokyo. She loves her Louis Vuitton handbags, Hermès scarves and Louboutin shoes. He enjoys eating out and looking through the department stores in Ginza and Shibuya. Together they...
- 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): Gotemba
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Fiction
- Era(s): Second half 20th Century
A CLASSIC MYSTERY FROM JAPAN’S QUEEN OF CRIME When American student Jane Prescott is invited to spend the holidays with her classmate Chiyo, she jumps at the chance to see in the new year at a luxurious mansion at...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
As Eiji Miyake’s twentieth birthday nears, he sets out for the seething metropolis of Tokyo to find the father he has never met. There, he begins a thrilling, whirlwind journey where dreams, memories and reality collide then diverge as...
Ryokan: Japan’s Finest Traditional Inns
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Various
Natural spring bathing in Japan is a celebration, the lovely pause in hectic lives yearning for moments of tranquillity. The hushed intimacy of rooms behind sliding paper doors, the sweet and the tangy of Japanese fruits, vegetables and seafood,...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Shortlisted for the 2014 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Tsukiko is in her late 30s and living alone when one night she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, ‘Sensei’, in a bar. He is at least...
The Convenience Store by the Sea
- Location(s): Kitakyushu
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Welcome to Tenderness! A quaint seaside town in Kitakyushu, Mojiko is full of hidden delights. And one unexpected treasure is the 24/7 convenience store, Tenderness. At first glance, it’s a store like any other. Sure, it’s a bit odd...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
A single mother, assisted by her daughter, strangles her abusive ex-husband. Her next door neighbour, a mathematician helps to create a scenario to provide the two women with iron-clad alibis. A detective, with the support of his logically minded...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Set in Japan, The Earthquake Bird begins with an earth-tremor on its first page that echoes metaphorically through the book. Lucy is a young and insecure translator straining to survive in the bustling, impersonal city of Tokyo. She becomes...
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