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  • Diary of a Void

    A Novel

    by Emi Yagi ...
    Translated by David Boyd, Lucy North ...
    **A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker · NPR · WBEZ’s Nerdette · The New York Public Library · Literary HubA New York Times Editors’ Choice“One of the most passionate cases I’ve ever read for female interiority, for women’s creative pulse and rich inner life.” ―Katy Waldman, The New Yorker“Always expect the unexpected when you’re not expecting.” ―Sloane CrosleyA woman in Tokyo avoids harassment ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Woman in the Purple Skirt

    A Novel

    by Natsuko Imamura ...
    Translated by Lucy North ...
    **A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR · Marie Claire“A taut and compelling depiction of loneliness and obsession.” --Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Girl on the Train“[It] will keep you firmly in its grip.” --Oyinkan Braithwaite, bestselling author of My Sister, the Serial Killer“The love child of Eugene Ionesco and Patricia Highsmith.” --Kelly Link, bestselling author of Get ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Garden

    by Hiroko Oyamada ...
    Translated by David Boyd, Lucy North ...
    From the author of The Hole and The Factory, a collection of strange and wonderful tales of humans, animals, and plantsCrabs scurrying over a landfill. Huge tadpoles writhing in a pond. A gecko stuck to the window. A sudden invasion of ants. Nature mysteriously creeps in and overruns the realm of humans in this stunning collection of stories.Hiroko Oyamada masterfully conveys the sense that ... Read more

    $12.59 USD

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  • The Soul Catchers

    A Novel

    by Naoko Higashi ...
    Translated by Lucy North ...
    With the wisdom and heart that charmed readers of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, a magical novel in which eleven souls get the chance to return to the loved ones they left behind in a most unusual way.What if you could come back after death to watch over a a beloved, your soul occupying an object special to them—a treasured mug, a mother's hearing aid, a diary, or even a jungle gym, climbed by the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Scent of a Transparent Night

    A Novel

    by Akane Chihaya ...
    Translated by Lucy North ...
    In the first book of an exquisite and sensuous award-winning series, a reclusive ex-bookseller is hired to work under a highly unusual but gifted perfumer, who creates custom-made fragrances for complicated—and sometimes dangerous—clients.After leaving her job as a bookseller, Ichika Wakamiya is living a lethargic life. Unemployed, indifferent, and all too comfortable in the darkness of her ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Making the Impossible Possible

    My Work for Leprosy Elimination and Human Rights

    by Yohei Sasakawa, Lucy North ...
    Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease that mainly affects the skin and peripheral nerves. Left untreated, it can cause progressive and permanent disability. But a diagnosis of leprosy can have consequences that go far beyond the disease's physical manifestations. The age-old stigma associated with leprosy can result in severe social discrimination that robs people of opportunities in life and ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Toddler Hunting

    And Other Stories

    by Taeko Kono ...
    Translated by Lucy North ...
    Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2018An unforgettable collection of stories from “the most carnally direct and the most lucidly intelligent woman writing in Japan” (Kenzaburo Oe)Toddler-Hunting and Other Stories introduces a startlingly original voice. Winner of Japan’s top literary prizes for fiction (among them the Akutagawa, the Tanizaki, the Noma, and the Yomiuri), Taeko Kono writes with a strange ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Record of a Night too Brief

    by Hiromi Kawakami ...
    Translated by Lucy North ...
    Series Book 3 - Japanese Novellas
    Akutagawa Prize-winning stories about unsettling loss and romance from one of Japan’s most celebrated contemporary writers—for fans of Haruki Murakami and Banana YoshimotoIn a dreamlike adventure, one woman travels through an apparently unending night with a porcelain girlfriend, mist-monsters and villainous monkeys; a sister mourns her invisible brother whom only she can still see, while the rest ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    The Woman in the Purple Skirt

    A Novel

    by Natsuko Imamura ...
    Narrated by Jennifer Ikeda ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 55 min

    **A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR · Marie Claire“A taut and compelling depiction of loneliness and obsession.” --Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Girl on the Train“[It] will keep you firmly in its grip.” --Oyinkan Braithwaite, bestselling author of My Sister, the Serial Killer“The love child of Eugene Ionesco and Patricia Highsmith.” --Kelly Link, bestselling author of Get ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Diary of a Void

    A Novel

    by Emi Yagi ...
    Narrated by Nancy Wu ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 38 min

    **A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker · NPR · WBEZ’s Nerdette · The New York Public Library · Literary HubA New York Times Editors’ Choice“One of the most passionate cases I’ve ever read for female interiority, for women’s creative pulse and rich inner life.” ―Katy Waldman, The New Yorker“Always expect the unexpected when you’re not expecting.” ―Sloane CrosleyA woman in Tokyo avoids harassment ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Blueprint

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    by Rae Giana Rashad ...
    Narrated by Joniece Abbott-Pratt ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 17 min

    **“The Blueprint is an astounding work, an unflinching portrait of misogyny and racism in a speculative world terrifyingly close to our own. Rae Giana Rashad chronicles the generational ghosts of womanhood, and how we understand ourselves through the stories of those we come from, in a way I’ve never read before. A remarkable new talent, and a timeless literary voice.”**—Ashley Audrain, New York ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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    Life Ceremony

    Stories

    by Sayaka Murata ...
    Narrated by Emily Woo Zeller, Jeena Yi, Nancy Wu, Natalie Naudus, Eunice Wong, Pun Bandhu, various narrators ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 55 min

    The long-awaited first short story-collection by the author of the cult sensation Convenience Store Woman, tales of weird love, heartfelt friendships, and the unsettling nature of human existenceWith Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata is back with her first collection of short stories ever to be translated into English. In Japan, Murata is particularly admired for her short stories, ... Read more

    $16.95 USD

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