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The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories
Author: Jay Rubin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 A major anthology of great Japanese short stories, now in Penguin Classics This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates...
Norwegian Wood
Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The haunting, enigmatic love story that turned Murakami into a literary superstar in Japan, and is his bestselling title...
Emperor of the Eight Islands: Books 1 and 2 in The Tale of Shikanoko series
Author: Lian Hearn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Like George R. R. Martin, Lian Hearn has captivated millions of readers worldwide with her masterpiece of imagination, TALES...
The Memory Police
Author: Yoko Ogawa Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A compelling and surreal, Orwellian mystery by one of Japan's greatest writers. Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020,...
Japanese Ghost Stories
Author: Lafcadio Hearn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A selection of Lafcadio Hearn's brilliantly entertaining and eerie ghost stories, regarded as major classics in Japan. In this...
Killing Commendatore
Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 The latest bewitching, kaleidoscopic novel from master storyteller Haruki Murakami, author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and 1Q84 We...
A Wild Sheep Chase
Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Leave reality behind and enter Murakami's fictional universe where nothing is ever as it seems A marvelous hybrid of...
The Housekeeper and the Professor: Vintage Classics Japanese Series
Author: Yoko Ogawa Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - following on from the success of Vintage Russian Classics and European Classics, these are covetable...
Men Without Women: Stories
Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A dazzling new collection of short stories from the international phenomenon, Haruki Murakami A dazzling Sunday Times bestselling collection...
Underground
Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Murakami tells the true story behind an act of terrorism that turned an average Monday morning into a national...
The Book of Tea
Author: Kakuzo Okakura Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 First time in Penguin Classics for this Japanese work dedicated to the art of drinking tea - and much...
Buddhist Scriptures
Author: Donald Lopez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 A rich new selection of Buddhist writings, representing the full range of historical periods, geographical origins and literary styles....
The Diary of Lady Murasaki
Author: Murasaki Shikibu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The Diary recorded by Lady Murasaki (c. 973-c. 1020), author of The Tale of Genji, is an intimate picture...
The Penguin Book of Haiku
Author: Adam L. Kern Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 First Penguin volume of best Japanese haiku vivid translations. Gaze I shall! 'til the very blossoms become a...
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories
Author: Ryunosuke Akutagawa Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Ry nosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan's foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked...
Japan Story: In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present
Author: Christopher Harding Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 A magical cultural history of modern Japan. Japan Story is a fascinating, surprising account of Japan's culture, from the...
The Pillow Book
Author: Sei Shonagon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 From short tales to lists of beautiful and ugly things, Sei Shonagon tells of a leisurely life in the...
Botchan
Author: Natsume Soseki Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 'All right, I decided, if I couldn't win tonight, I'd win tomorrow. If I couldn't win tomorrow, I'd win...