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  • Clouds above the Hill

    A Historical Novel of the Russo-Japanese War, Volume 1

    by Shiba Ryōtarō ...
    Translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter, Andrew Cobbing, Paul McCarthy ...
    Clouds above the Hill is one of the best-selling novels ever in Japan, and is now translated into English for the first time. An epic portrait of Japan in crisis, it combines graphic military history and highly readable fiction to depict an aspiring nation modernizing at breakneck speed. Best-selling author Shiba Ryōtarō devoted an entire decade of his life to this extraordinary blockbuster, which ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • No Longer Human

    by Osamu Dazai ...
    Translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter ...
    "Dazai's brand of egoistic pessimism dovetails organically with the emo chic of this cultural moment and with the inner lives of teenagers of all eras." —Andrew Martin, The New York Times"A journey to hell with Osamu Dazai, Japan's ultimate bad boy novelist" —Damian Flanagan, The Japan TimesA completely new translation of Osamu Dazai's great masterpiece by award-winning translator Juliet Winters ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Island of the Bird-Folk

    A Novel

    by Kiyoko Murata ...
    Translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter ...
    From the author of A Woman of Pleasure comes a powerful new novel that sharply criticizes our modern attachment to our possessions, and specifically our land, from the perspective of two singular women who refuse to leave their homeA small island near the Japanese border which once had a thriving fishing industry is now home to just two old women: 92-year-old Io and 88-year-old Someko. As we see ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • At the Edge of the Woods

    by Masatsugu Ono ...
    Translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter ...
    Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant meets Pew by Catherine Lacey in Ono’s latest, a short, atmospheric novel about parenthood, paranoia, societal collapse, and the power of imaginary creatures. At the Edge of the Woods is the third book from Masatsugu Ono from Two Lines Press. A perennial bookseller favorite, Ono represents the “post-Murakami” generation of writers: those who emerged after Murakami ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Eat Sleep Sit

    My Year at Japan's Most Rigorous Zen Temple

    by Kaoru Nonomura ...
    Translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter ...
    At the age of thirty, Kaoru Nonomura left his family, his girlfriend, and his job as a designer in Tokyo to undertake a year of ascetic training at Eiheiji, one of the most rigorous Zen training temples in Japan. This book is Nonomura's recollection of his experiences. He skillfully describes every aspect of training, including how to meditate, how to eat, how to wash, even how to use the toilet, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • An I-Novel

    by Minae Mizumura ...
    Translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter ...
    Minae Mizumura’s An I-Novel is a semi-autobiographical work that takes place over the course of a single day in the 1980s. Minae is a Japanese expatriate graduate student who has lived in the United States for two decades but turned her back on the English language and American culture. After a phone call from her older sister reminds her that it is the twentieth anniversary of their family’s ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Voices of the Fallen Heroes

    And Other Stories

    by Yukio Mishima ...
    Translated by Jeffrey Angles, Sam Bett, Paul McCarthy, Juliet Winters Carpenter, Tomoko Aoyama, Hannah Osborne, Oliver White ...
    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

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Fall of Language in the Age of English

    by Minae Mizumura ...
    Translated by Mari Yoshihara, Juliet Winters Carpenter ...
    Winner of the Kobayashi Hideo Award, The Fall of Language in the Age of English lays bare the struggle to retain the brilliance of one's own language in this period of English-language dominance. Born in Tokyo but raised and educated in the United States, Minae Mizumura acknowledges the value of a universal language in the pursuit of knowledge yet also embraces the different ways of understanding ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • The Last Shogun

    The Life of Tokugawa Yoshinobu

    by Ryotaro Shiba ...
    Translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter ...
    In Ryotaro Shiba's account of the life of Japan's last shogun, Perry's arrival off the coast of Japan was merely the spark that ignited the cataclysm in store for the Japanese people and their governments. It came to its real climax with the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1868, the event which forms the centerpiece of this book. The Meiji Restoration—as history calls it—toppled the shogunate, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Clouds above the Hill

    A Historical Novel of the Russo-Japanese War, Volume 3

    by Shiba Ryōtarō ...
    Translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter ...
    Clouds above the Hill, a long-time best-selling novel in Japan, is now translated into English for the first time. An epic portrait of Japan in crisis, it combines graphic military history and highly readable fiction to depict an aspiring nation modernizing at breakneck speed. Acclaimed author Shiba Ryōtarō devoted an entire decade of his life to this extraordinary blockbuster, which features ... Read more

    Was $34.99 USD Now $30.99 USD

  • Co-Creation in Theory and Practice

    Exploring Creativity in the Global North and South

    by Andres Sandoval-Hernandez, Eliana Osorio Saez, Joanne Davies, Christina Horvath, Bryan Clift, Ben Spencer, Inés Álvarez-Gortari, Juliet Carpenter, Dianell Pacheco Gordillo0, Karla Valverde Viesca1, Hector Quiroz Rothe2, Pamela Ileana Castro Suarez3, Simone Fullagar4, Annaleise Depper5, José Luis Gázquez Iglesias6, María José Pantoja Peschard7, Oscar Natividad Puig8, Sue Brownill9 ...
    This innovative book provides a critical analysis of diverse experiences of Co-creation in neighbourhood settings across the Global North and Global South.A unique collection of international researchers, artists and activists explore how creative, arts-based methods of community engagement can help tackle marginalisation and stigmatisation, whilst empowering communities to effect positive change ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • A Woman of Pleasure

    A Novel

    by Kiyoko Murata ...
    Translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter ...
    An unforgettable novel of fearless women banding together to pursue the lives they want, inspired by the real-life historic Japanese courtesan strikeIn 1903, a fifteen-year-old girl named Aoi Ichi is sold to the most exclusive brothel in Kumamoto, Japan. Despite her modest beginnings in a southern fishing village, she becomes the protégée of an oiran, the highest-ranking courtesan at the brothel. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD