Japan / Fiction from Infinity Books Japan

US: Faber and Faber, 2005. Paperback. Good. As a child, Kathy - now thirty-one years old - lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe that they were special and t hat their well-being was crucial not only for themselves but for… Read more about this item

US: Faber and Faber, 2005. Paperback. New. From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at o nce heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it means to be human. Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from th e influences… Read more about this item

US: Virago, 2017. Paperback. New. You've just passed someone on the street who could be the love of your life , the person you're destined for - what do you do? In Murakami's world, you tell them a story. The five weird and wonderful tales collected here each unlock the many-tongued language of desire, whether it takes the… Read more about this item

US: Faber & Faber, 1986. Paperback. New. It is 1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The ce lebrated painter Masuji Ono fills his days attending to his garden, his hou se repairs, his two grown daughters and his grandson, and… Read more about this item

US: Faber & Faber, 2021. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. *The #1 Sunday Times Bestseller* *Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021* *A Barack Obama Summer Reading Pick* 'A delicate, haunting story' The Washington Post 'This… Read more about this item

US: Rider, 1937. Paperback. New. The beloved multi-million copy bestselling Japanese classic about finding o ne's place in the world A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Academy Award-winning anime master Hayao Miyazaki's favourite childhood boo k and the inspiration behind the Studio Ghibli film 'In How Do You Live?, Copper, our hero, and his uncle are our guides in… Read more about this item

US: Penguin Publishing Group, 2023. Paperback. New. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker · NPR · WBEZ's Nerdette · The New Y ork Public Library · Literary Hub A New York Times Editors' Choice "One of the most passionate cases I've ever read for female interiority, fo r women's creative pulse and rich inner life."… Read more about this item

US: Random House UK, 2012. Paperback. New. RECOMMENDED BY THOUSANDS OF INTERNATIONAL READERS - the tender feelgood sto ry of a man's journey around Japan with a streetcat. Translated by Philip G abriel, a translator of Murakami. INCLUDES 6 BEAUTIFUL LINE-DRAWINGS A WATERSONES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR 2017 'Anyone who has ever unashamedly loved an animal will read… Read more about this item

US: Abacus, 2005. Paperback. Good. Yasuko Hanaoka is a divorced, single mother who thought she had finally esc aped her abusive ex-husband Togashi. When he shows up one day to extort mon ey from her, threatening both her and her teenaged daughter Misato, the sit uation quickly escalates into violence and Togashi ends up dead on her apar… Read more about this item

US: Penguin, 1958. Paperback. New. 'An irresistible Hitchcockian gem: a fiendishly-plotted crime novel told in crisp, elegant prose' Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train 'Matsumoto was Japan's Agatha Christie' Laura Hackett, The Sunday Times 'It was a puzzle with no solution. But he did not lose heart.' In a rocky cove in the bay of… Read more about this item

US: Amazon, 2021. Paperback. Very Good. WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATED LITERATURE A surreal, devastating story of a homeless ghost who haunts one of Tokyo's busiest train stations. Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Japanese Empe ror, his life is tied by a series of coincidences to… Read more about this item

US: Picador, 2012. Paperback. New. A beguiling novel about three women struggling to determine their own lives in contemporary Tokyo. 'Breathtaking' - Haruki Murakami author of Norwegian Wood A New York Times 'Notable Book of the Year' and one of Elena Ferrante's 'To p 40 Books by Female Authors'. Shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation.… Read more about this item

US: Pushkin Vertigo, 2020. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. A fiendish classic murder mystery, from one of Japan's greatest crime write rs, featuring the country's best-loved detective In 1940s Japan, the wealthy head of the… Read more about this item

US: Penguin Random House, 1979. Paperback. New. Hear the Wind Sing is Murakami's first novel, available for the first time in English outside Japan. In Hear the Wind Sing the narrator is home from college on his summer break . He spends his time drinking beer and smoking in Jâe(tm)s Bar with the Rat , listening to the… Read more about this item

US: Picador, 2012. Paperback. New. A beguiling novel about three women struggling to determine their own lives in contemporary Tokyo. 'Breathtaking' - Haruki Murakami author of Norwegian Wood A New York Times 'Notable Book of the Year' and one of Elena Ferrante's 'To p 40 Books by Female Authors'. Shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation.… Read more about this item

US: Vintage, 1994. Paperback. New. Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020, an enthralling Orwelli an novel about the terrors of state surveillance from one of Japan's greate st writers. 'Beautiful... Haunting' Sunday Times 'A dreamlike story of dystopia' Jia Tolentino __________ Hat, ribbon, bird rose. To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no longer has… Read more about this item

US: Penguin, 1958. Paperback. New. 'An irresistible Hitchcockian gem: a fiendishly-plotted crime novel told in crisp, elegant prose' Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train 'Matsumoto was Japan's Agatha Christie' Laura Hackett, The Sunday Times 'It was a puzzle with no solution. But he did not lose heart.' In a rocky cove in the bay of… Read more about this item

US: Pushkin Vertigo, 2020. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. One of Japan's greatest classic murder mysteries, introducing their best lo ved detective, translated into English for the first time In the winter of 1937, the… Read more about this item

US: Penguin Books, 1948. Paperback. New. Shimamura is tired of the bustling city. He takes the train through the sno w to the mountains of the west coast of Japan, to meet with a geisha he bel ieves he loves. Beautiful and innocent, Komako is tightly bound by the rule s of a rural geisha, and lives a… Read more about this item

US: Corgi, 1989. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. A body with underworld connections lies sprawled in the Tama River. Araki, a hardened investigative journalist, looks into the circumstances behind the death and soon finds himself… Read more about this item