Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami
25.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
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 thirty years her senior, retired and, she presumes, a widower. After this initial encounter, the pair continue to meet occasionally to share food and ...Show more
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
28.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
Kitchen juxtaposes two tales about mothers, transsexuality, bereavement, kitchens, love and tragedy in contemporary Japan. It is a startlingly original first work by Japan's brightest young literary star and is now a cult film. When Kitchen was first published in Japan in 1987 it won two of Japan's most ...Show more
The Last Children of Tokyo by Yoko Tawada
25.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
Yoshiro celebrated his hundredth birthday many years ago, but every morning before work he still goes running in the park with his rent-a-dog. He is one of the many aged-elderly in Japan and he might, he thinks, live forever. Life for Yoshiro isn't as simple as it used to be. Pollution and natural disas ...Show more
Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum
37.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
There was only one thing on her mind.'I must start a bookshop.' Yeongju did everything she was supposed to, go to university, marry a decent man, get a respectable job. Then it all fell apart. Burned out, Yeongju abandons her old life, quits her high-flying career, and follows her dream. She opens a bo ...Show more
The Snow Ghost and Other Tales by Various
40.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
A spine-tinglingly beautiful hardback collection of some of Japan's scariest yet still compelling classic ghost stories Enter the haunted world of Ancient Japan in this spine-tingling collection of ghostly tales told and retold across the centuries. From Goblin infested caves and haunted Tombs, to ven ...Show more
The Tatami Galaxy by Tomihiko Morimi; Emily Balistrieri (Translator)
38.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
An unfulfilled college student hurtles through four parallel realities to explore the what-might've-been and the what-should-never-be in this Groundhog Day meets The Midnight Library-esque novel from one of Japan's most popular authors. Our protagonist, an unnamed junior at a prestigious university in ...Show more
Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
50.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
A special hardback edition of Murakami's classic love story, Sputnik Sweetheart. Published in this new gift edition, with an introduction from the author. A beautifully packaged hardback edition of Haruki Murakami's classic mystery story about love, the cosmos and other fictional universes, now with a n ...Show more
She and her Cat by MAKOTO SHINKAI
26.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
The Japanese bestseller, now in gifty gold-foiled paperback with flaps, including irresistible inside illustrationsTHE PERFECT CURL-UP READ FOR CAT-LOVERS IN A SPECIAL CHRISTMASSY PACKAGE'Compassionate and touching' DAILY MAIL'Goes to show how cats will save us all' Nick Bradley, author of The Cat and t ...Show more
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop: The International Bestseller for lovers of Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Satoshi Yagisawa
28.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
Hidden in Jimbocho, Tokyo is a booklover's paradise. On a quiet corner in an old wooden building lies a shop filled with hundreds of second-hand books. Twenty-five-year-old Takako has never liked reading, although the Morisaki bookshop has been in her family for three generations. It is the pride and jo ...Show more
The Devil's Flute Murders by Seishi Yokomizo
25.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction | Series: Detective Kindaichi Mysteries Ser.
The scruffy sleuth Kosuke Kindaichi investigates a series of gruesome murders within the feuding family of a brooding, troubled composer, whose most famous work chills the blood of all who hear it. The Devil’s Flute Murders is an ingenious and highly atmospheric classic whodunit from Japan’s master of c ...Show more
Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv by Andrey Kurkov (translated by Reuben Woolley)
38.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
"Ukraine's greatest living novelist" New European"A Ukrainian Murakami" GuardianA hugely entertaining romp through the beautiful city of Lviv, by the author of Death and the Penguin and Grey BeesStrange things are afoot in the cosmopolitan city of Lviv, western Ukraine. Seagulls are circling and the air ...Show more
A New Name: Septology VI-VII by Jon Fosse
28.00 NZD
Category: Global fiction
Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. His only friends are his neighbour, Åsleik, a traditional fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in the city. There, in Bj rgvin, lives another Asle, also a painter but lonely and consumed by alcohol. Asl ...Show more