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  • Kokoro

    by Natsume Soseki ...
    Translated by Edwin McClellan ...
    "The novel sustains throughout its length something approaching poetry, and it is rich in understanding and insight. The translation, by Edwin McClellan, is extremely good." —Anthony West, The New YorkerKokoro, which means "the heart of things," explores emotions familiar to everyone—love and hate, hope and despair, companionship and loneliness.Sensei, a man seen against the rich background of old ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Soseki Natsume Kokoro

    by Soseki Natsume ...
    Translated by Edwin McClellan ...
    "Natsume Soseki is the representative modern Japanese novelist, a figure of truly national stature." —Haruki MurakamiA chance encounter irrevocably links a university student to an older man he simply calls Sensei ("Teacher"). Intrigued by Sensei's aloofness, the student visits him with increasing frequency, and Sensei and his beautiful wife eventually open their home and lives to him. The student ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Kokoro

    by Natsume Soseki ...
    Translated by Edwin McClellan ...
    Series series Dover Literature: Literary Fiction
    "Rich in understanding and insight."—The New YorkerWhat is love, and what is friendship? What is the extent of our responsibility to ourselves and to others? Kokoro, signifying "the heart of things," examines these age-old questions in terms of the modern world.A trilogy of stories that explores the very essence of loneliness, Kokoro opens with "Sensei and I," in which the narrator recounts his ... Read more

    $9.59 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

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    by Natsume Soseki, Aiko Ito ...
    "A nonchalant string of anecdotes and wisecracks, told by a fellow who doesn't have a name, and has never caught a mouse, and isn't much good for anything except watching human beings in action…" —The New YorkerWritten over the course of 1904-1906, Soseki Natsume's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirizes the foolishness of upper-middle-class Japanese society during the Meiji era. With acerbic wit ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Voices of the Fallen Heroes

    And Other Stories

    by Yukio Mishima ...
    A new selection of Yukio Mishima (author of Spring Snow and The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea) short stories from the 1960s—his final decade—Voices of the Fallen Heroes offers a unique glimpse into the mind of one of Japan’s greatest writers.In the title story, "Voices of the Fallen Heroes," a séance brings forth the spirits of young officers in the Imperial Army and the kamikaze pilots ... Read more

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  • A Trick of the Mind

    How the Brain Invents Your Reality

    by Daniel Yon ...
    **One of Next Big Idea Club's Best Books of 2025From a groundbreaking neuroscientist, a book that will reshape the way we understand how our brain perceives the world around us—for readers of Adam Grant's Think Again and Lisa Genova's Remember.**How does your brain decide what it's seeing, from the physical world to other people? For decades, scientists have tried to understand how our brains work ... Read more

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  • The Black Swan Mystery

    Translated by Bryan Karetnyk ...
    by Tetsuya Ayukawa ...
    Series series THE BLACK SWAN MYSTERY
    **THE JAPANESE CRIME FICTION CLASSIC: A prize-winning railway murder mystery set in 1960s Japan—for fans of Agatha Christie and Seicho Matsumoto!Full of devious twists and turns, this brilliant puzzle mystery is considered to be one of the greatest alibi deconstruction mysteries ever written**Early one morning, the owner of a local mill is found lying next to the railway tracks just outside of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Six Stories

    by Stefan Zweig ...
    ‘One of the masters of the short story’ Guardian‘I have to tell you – you see, this is just about the strangest experience I have been through...’These six stories of obsession, secrets, delusions and desires from one of the greatest European writers show individuals caught up in forces beyond their control – whether an art dealer agreeing to a heartbreaking deception, a soldier destroyed by war, ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Little Sparrow Murders

    by Seishi Yokomizo ...
    Translated by Bryan Karetnyk ...
    Series series Detective Kindaichi Mysteries
    **“With a pinch of John Dickson Carr and a dash of Agatha Christie, solver of impossible crimes” Kosuke Kindaichi returns for another murder mystery (The New York Times)As several bodies are discovered staged in bizarre poses echoing the lyrics of a children's song, the quirky, endearing Japanese detective must string together the clues to solve this fiendish puzzle**The scruffy detective Kosuke ... Read more

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  • Maigret's Dead Man (Inspector Maigret)

    by Georges Simenon ...
    Translated by David Coward ...
    Series Book 29 - Inspector Maigret
    A panicked man turns to Maigret for help—and dies before the detective can learn his identity. Who was he, and what led to his brutal murder?One morning, Maigret receives several phone calls from an increasingly panicked man. He’s being followed, he says, and his pursuers want to kill him. Before Maigret can track down the caller, his lifeless body is thrown from a car. Yet his identity remains a ... Read more

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  • The Hole

    A Novel

    by Hye-young Pyun ...
    Translated by Sora Kim-Russell ...
    Winner of the 2017 Shirley Jackson AwardNamed One of the Top 10 Thrillers to Read This Summer by Time Magazine.In this tense, gripping novel by a rising star of Korean literature, Oghi has woken from a coma after causing a devastating car accident that took his wife's life and left him paralyzed and badly disfigured. His caretaker is his mother-in-law, a widow grieving the loss of her only child. ... Read more

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  • Maigret's Holiday (Inspector Maigret)

    by Georges Simenon ...
    Translated by Ros Schwartz ...
    Series Book 28 - Inspector Maigret
    Maigret finds himself at a seaside resort, but this is no vacation**—**something is afoot.“For pity’s sake, ask to see the patient in room 15.” Maigret and his wife are at a seaside resort, taking a rare vacation, when Madame Maigret is hospitalized with appendicitis. One afternoon after visiting her, Maigret finds an anonymous note in his pocket. But nineteen-year-old Lili, the patient in room 15 ... Read more

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