Fiction - World Literature - Japan

International bestseller Keigo Higashino returns with his latest mindbender--Newcomer--as newly transferred Tokyo Police Detective Kyochiro Kaga is assigned to a perplexing murder. A woman is found murdered in her new apartment in the Nihonbashi area of Tokyo. Living a quiet life, with nothing remarkable...

No one really understands how we suffer. One day, when we're adults, we may come to recall this suffering, this misery, as silly and laughable, but how are we to get through the long, hateful period until then? No one bothers to teach us...

Author: Poppy KurokiPublisher: Harper PerennialPublished: 01/27/2026Pages: 368Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 8.61h x 4.82w x 0.90dISBN: 9780063410923Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 11/10/2025Booklist 11/06/2025About the AuthorKuroki, Poppy: - Poppy Kuroki is the author of Road to Odawara, Gate to Kagoshima, and Passage to Tokyo from the Ancestor...

Patrik, who sometimes calls himself "the patient," is a literary researcher living in present-day Berlin. The city is just coming back to life after lockdown, and his beloved opera houses are open again, but Patrik cannot leave the house and hardly manages to get...

El fenómeno literario internacional que ha enamorado a Elena Ferrante y Haruki Murakami, una historia de feminidad y clase en el siglo XXI. En un sofocante día de verano, Makiko viaja a Tokio a visitar a su hermana Natsu. Incapaz de aceptar los cambios...

Nominated for the 2021 Shirley Jackson Award From the author of the internationally bestselling Strange Weather in Tokyo, a collection of interlinking stories that masterfully blend the mundane and the mythical--"fairy tales in the best Brothers Grimm tradition: naïf, magical, and frequently veering into...

Author: Ao OmaePublisher: HarperviaPublished: 05/12/2026Pages: 240Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.36lbsSize: 5.87h x 4.36w x 0.60dISBN: 9780063484696About the AuthorOmae, Ao: - Born 1992 in Hyogo Prefecture, Ao Omae is a rising star of gender-conscious literature in Japan. He is the author of the novels People Who...

"A master crime writer...Seichō Matsumoto's thrillers dissect Japanese society."--The New York Times. A beautifully written mystery novel that takes on the taboo of Japanese prostitution catering to GIs during the American post-war occupation.Tokyo 1958, Teiko marries Kenichi Uhara, ten years her senior, an advertising...

From the co-author of the international bestsellers Ikigai and The Ikigai Journey comes a tender, thought-provoking novel of love, mystery, and cultural discovery. "Could a message from the past rewrite the story of your life?" When mysterious postcards from Japan arrive out of the...

Una adolescente muy particular vive su primer amor y descubre, tras la agitación del corazón, las dificultades de convertirse en adulta. Los personajes de Yoshimoto ejercen una absoluta fascinación sobre mí ... A pesar de sus desgracias, tienen una capacidad infinita para degustar las...

The Akutagawa prize-winning novel by Kou Machida, Japan's most outlandish and inventive author. Rip It Up is the first ever English translation of Kou Machida's award-winning novel, an undertaking over five years in the making and the inaugural title of Inpatient Press's translation imprint...

A bestseller in Japan--a beautiful story about shared self-discovery and friendship involving an unlikely group of students who decide to defy the odds and pursue a seemingly impossible goal together. After shoplifting some bread one chilly March night, just before the start of a...

A gorgeous Clothbound Classics edition of Soseki's cherished novel, with an introduction by Haruki Murakami A Penguin ClassicSoseki's work of gentle humor and doomed innocence depicts twenty-three-year-old Sanshiro, a recent graduate from a provincial college, as he begins university life in the big city...

Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now remembered as "the land of sushi." Hiruko, its former citizen and a climate refugee herself, has a job teaching immigrant children in Denmark with her invented language Panska...

Essentially the start of Dazai's career, Schoolgirl gained notoriety for its ironic and inventive use of language. Now it illuminates the prevalent social structures of a lost time, as well as the struggle of the individual against them-a theme that occupied Dazai's life both...

Essentially the start of Dazai's career, Schoolgirl gained notoriety for its ironic and inventive use of language. Now it illuminates the prevalent social structures of a lost time, as well as the struggle of the individual against them-a theme that occupied Dazai's life both...

A shocking and transgressive work from one of the key figures of postwar Japanese fictionYumiko Kurahashi's 1963 novella Scorpions takes the form of a transcript of a one-sided interview with L following the arrest and institutionalization of her twin brother K. The two have...

From the international bestselling author of Bullet Train, two inventive espionage tales in one "Isaka's style is tense, laden with dark humor expressed with a flat affect--just the right tone for a book that walks the fine line between comedy and violence." --New York...

"Art dies the moment it acquires authority." So said Japan's quintessential rebel writer Osamu Dazai, who, disgusted with the hypocrisy of every kind of establishment, from the nation's obsolete aristocracy to its posturing, warmongering generals, went his own way, even when that meant his...

The first novel from Izumi Suzuki to be published in English: a candid, intimate exploration of passion, music and transgression Hope I'm in for a good time, I thought. Even if it's just for tonight. Set in the underground bar and club scene of...