Fiction - World Literature - Japan

In the latest from international bestselling author Keigo Higashino, Tokyo Police Detective Kaga is faced with a very public murder that doesn't quite add up, a prime suspect unable to defend himself, and pressure from the highest levels for a quick solution. In the...

Introducing an iconic investigative duo--a hapless detective and his capable cat--in this must-read by one of Japan's most beloved novelists of crime fiction. Detective Yoshitaro Katayama is afraid of many things: heights, dark spaces, blood and ... women. When a young female student is...

This ground-breaking collection from Tomoka Shibasaki, author of the acclaimed novel Spring Garden, pushes the short story to a new level.In these stories of human connection in a contemporary, alienated world, people come together to share pieces of their lives, then part. We meet...

The English-language debut of a prize-winning Japanese author, this touching, subtly funny novel evokes the daily struggles and hopes of two women from different generations. When her mother emigrates to China for work, 20-year-old Chizu moves in with 71-year-old Ginko, an eccentric distant relative,...

An unforgettable novel of fearless women banding together to pursue the lives they want, inspired by the real-life historic Japanese courtesan strike In 1903, a fifteen-year-old girl named Aoi Ichi is sold to the most exclusive brothel in Kumamoto, Japan. Despite her modest beginnings...

Now a Major Motion Picture starring Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Claire Foy, and Jamie Bell.A man is drawn back to his childhood home and discovers his parents living just as they were on the day they died thirty years before...Screenwriter Harada is disconnected from...

The Archipelago of the Sun finds Hiruko still searching for her lost country, traveling around the Baltic on a mail boat. With her are Knut, a Danish linguist; Akash, an Indian in the process of moving to the opposite sex; Nanook, a Greenlander who...

"Beautifully, startingly, explosively expansive . . . In this delicate, near miraculous novel, there is no path away from grief, but there is a kind of company in loss, and a continuation of love." --from the foreword by Katie Kitamura, author of Audition From...

For centuries, the Yaseki have fought the corrupted souls who seek to plunge Japan into darkness. But the fragile balance is now shifting toward the forces of evil. Ren Fudō, a young Soul Hunter blessed with the blood of the kami, receives a mission...

Author: Kei AonoPublisher: Pegasus BooksPublished: 06/02/2026Pages: 320Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.14lbsSize: 9.07h x 6.15w x 1.11dISBN: 9798897101405Review Citation(s): Library Journal 04/01/2026 pg. 61Booklist 05/01/2026Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2026About the AuthorKei Aono was born in Nagoya, Japan and studied at Tokyo Art university. After starting her career at...

Bullet Train is an original and propulsive thriller that fizzes with incredible energy through a series of double-crosses and twists. "Fueled by a seductively explosive premise, it's fast, deadly, and loads of fun." (NPR's Fresh Air) An international bestseller and the basis for the...

Confessions of a Mask tells the story of Kochan, an adolescent boy tormented by his burgeoning attraction to men: he wants to be "normal." Kochan is meek-bodied, and unable to participate in the more athletic activities of his classmates. He begins to notice his...

"A riveting tale about war, intrigue, love, and perseverance." --John Grisham "Absorbing...Unfolds like a detective novel...The story barrels ahead urgently...Duty, anger, sorrow, conscience and even hope mix together to form the novel's bracingly intimate ending." --The Wall Street Journal "What if not two but...

"A riveting tale about war, intrigue, love, and perseverance." --John Grisham "Absorbing...Unfolds like a detective novel...The story barrels ahead urgently...Duty, anger, sorrow, conscience and even hope mix together to form the novel's bracingly intimate ending." --The Wall Street Journal "What if not two but...

The wise and charming international bestseller and hit Japanese movie--about a young woman who loses everything but finds herself--a tale of new beginnings, romantic and family relationships, and the comfort that can be found in books. Twenty-five-year-old Takako has enjoyed a relatively easy existence--until...

From the internationally bestselling author of the Morisaki Bookshop novels comes a charming and poignant story set at a quiet Tokyo café where customers find unexpected connection and experience everyday miracles.Tucked away on a narrow side street in Tokyo is the Torunka Café, a...

Japan's internationally celebrated master storyteller returns with five stories of women on their way to healing that vividly portrays the blissful moments and everyday sorrows that surround us in everyday life A New York Times Notable Book "This is a supremely hopeful book, one...

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker - NPR - WBEZ's Nerdette - The New York Public Library - Literary Hub A New York Times Editors' Choice "One of the most passionate cases I've ever read for female interiority, for women's creative...

All Otaha Higuchi wants to do is work with books. However, the exhausting nature of her work at a chain bookstore, combined with her paltry salary and irritating manager bring reality crashing down around her. She is on the verge of quitting when she...

"Tender and prickly and consistently confounds expectation . . . the novel is deft and light as air. But it carries a streak of something stronger and sharper than melancholy, tracing a relationship that is at once moving and deeply fraught." --from the foreword...