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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer, and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story There are two things that I simply cannot tolerate: feminists and margarine. Gourmet cook ... Read More about Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder

In this intoxicating stream-of-consciousness novel, Mieko Kanai tackles the existential traps of motherhood, marriage, and domestic captivity The apparently unremarkable Natsumi lives in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and two sons: she does the laundry, goes to the supermarket, visits fri... Read More about Mild Vertigo

In this "delightfully uncanny" collection of feminist retellings of traditional Japanese folktales (The New York Times Book Review), humans live side by side with spirits who provide a variety of useful services—from truth-telling to babysitting, from protecting castles to fighting crime.A busybody ... Read More about Where the Wild Ladies Are

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Thrillist, The Millions, Frieze, and Metropolis JapanThe first English language publication of the work of Izumi Suzuki, a legend of Japanese science fiction and a countercultural iconAt turns nonchalantly hip and charmingly deranged, Suzuki's singular slant ... Read More about Terminal Boredom: Stories

Winner of the Akutagawa Prize   A sharp, photo-realistic novella of memory and thwarted hope set in modern-day Tokyo—an “unflinching . . . powerful” showcase of the best in contemporary Japanese literature (Shelf Awareness) Divorced and cut off from his family, Taro lives alone in one of the fe... Read More about Spring Garden (Japanese Novellas)

This masterful collection from Tomoka Shibasaki, author of the acclaimed Spring Garden, pushes the short story form to a new level. In this ground-breaking story collection, people come together to share pieces of their lives, then part. We meet the women who share a house after the outbreak of war... Read More about A Hundred Years and a Day: 34 Stories