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What do readers say about Convenience Store Woman?
concise and clear short and thought-provoking clean, short sentences, refreshing unimaginative and uninsightfulShortlisted for the Best Translated Book Award
Longlisted for the Believer Book Award
Longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation
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A convenience store is a world of sound. From the tinkle of the door chime to the voices of TV celebrities advertising new products over the in-store cable network, to the calls of the store workers, ...
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What do readers say about The Housekeeper and the Professor?
spare and precise understated and elegant brief and spare an unlikely relationshipYoko Ogawa's The Housekeeper and the Professor is an enchanting story about what it means to live in the present, and about the curious equations that can create a family.
He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar problem-ever since a traumat... More details on The Housekeeper and the Professor
"Yes, there is," he said, pointing at his chest. "It's in here. It'sthe most discreet sort of number, so it never comes out where itcan be seen. But it's here." We fell silent for a moment, trying top...
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What do readers say about A Tale for the Time Being?
suicide and child prostitution alternating chapter narrative surreal and imaginative simple, almost matter-of-factA brilliant, unforgettable novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki, author of The Book of Form and Emptiness
Finalist for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award
"A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and... More details on A Tale for the Time Being
Actually, not much has changed. I’m still sitting in this French maid café in Akiba Electricity Town, and Edith Pilaf is singing another sad chanson, and Babette just brought me a coffee and I’ve take...
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What do readers say about Strange Weather in Tokyo?
matter of fact style quirky and funny simple but not simplistic contemporary japanese fictionShortlisted for the 2013 Man Asian Literary Prize, Strange Weather in Tokyo is a story of loneliness and love that defies age.
Tsukiko, thirty-eight, works in an office and lives alone. One night, she happens to meet one of her former high school tea... More details on Strange Weather in Tokyo
Sensei and I exchanged glances. Despite the fact that we came to this bar almost every other night, the owner had never once treated us like regulars or made a point of making friendly conversation. R...
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What do readers say about The Woman in the Dunes?
existential japanese classic existentialist horror novel realist narrative style a japanese novelThe Woman in the Dunes, by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, suspense and the existential novel.
After missing the last bus home following a day trip to the seashore, an amateur entomologist is offered lodging for... More details on The Woman in the Dunes
ONE August afternoon a man stood in the railroad station at S––. He wore a gray peaked hat, and the cuffs of his trousers were tucked into his stockings. A canteen and a large wooden box were slung ov...
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What do readers say about Kitchen?
light, easygoing style haunted and wispy gentle and introspective simple and beautifully writtenBanana Yoshimoto's novels have created a sensation in Japan and all over the world. With the publication of Kitchen, the dazzling English-language debut that is still her best-loved book, the literary world realized that Yoshimoto was a young writer ... More details on Kitchen
The place I like best in this world is the kitchen. No matter where it is, no matter what kind, if it's a kitchen, if it's a place where they make food, it's fine with me. Ideally it should be well br...
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What do readers say about Revenge?
loss, longing, and jealousy cerebral, literary, floating creepy story collection a haunting tesseractFROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MEMORY POLICE
'A conspicuously gifted writer…To read Ogawa is to enter a dreamlike state tinged with a nightmare, and her stories continue to haunt. She possesses an effortless, glassy, eerie brilliance' Guardian
Murderers and... More details on Revenge
It was a beautiful Sunday. The sky was a cloudless dome of sunlight. Out on the square, leaves fluttered in a gentle breeze along the pavement. Everything seemed to glimmer with a faint luminescence: ...
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What do readers say about Before the Coffee Gets Cold?
free flowing style cold and distant brief and moving slim japanese novel*OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD*
*NOW AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER*
If you could go back, who would you want to meet?In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local le... More details on Before the Coffee Gets Cold
She glared with uncertainty. She hadn’t heard him say it was over. But he had called her – his girlfriend of three years – to come out for a serious conversation . . . and now he had suddenly announce...
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What do readers say about Breasts and Eggs?
an existential japanese novel straightforward and clear a short novella a self contained novellaThe story of three women by a writer hailed by Haruki Murakami as Japan's most important contemporary novelist, WINNER OF THE AKUTAGAWA PRIZE.
"BREASTS AND EGGS took my breath away."-HARUKI MURAKAMI
Challenging every preconception about storytell... More details on Breasts and Eggs
If you want to know how poor somebody was growing up, ask them how many windows they had. Don’t ask what was in their fridge or in their closet. The number of windows says it all. It says everything. ...
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What do readers say about The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle?
dreamlike and surreal surreal and psychedelic plain but addictive fluid and funThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a tour de force-and one of Haruki Murakami's most acclaimed and beloved novels.
In a Tokyo suburb, a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's missing cat-and then for his wife as well-in a netherworld beneath t... More details on The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
When the phone rang I was in the kitchen, boiling a potful of spaghetti and whistling along with an FM broadcast of the overture to Rossini’s The Thieving Magpie, which has to be the perfect music for...
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