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  • The Flowers of Buffoonery

    by Osamu Dazai ...
    Translated by Sam Bett ...
    For the first time in English, Osamu Dazai’s hilariously comic and deeply moving prequel to No Longer HumanThe Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanitarium where Yozo Oba—the narrator of No Longer Human at a younger age—is being kept after a failed suicide attempt. While he is convalescing, his friends and family visit him, and other patients and nurses drift in and out of his room. Against ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Night of Baba Yaga

    by AKIRA OTANI ...
    Translated by Sam Bett ...
    A fierce mixed-race fighter develops a powerful attachment to the yakuza princess she’s been forced to protect in this explosive queer thriller: Kill Bill meets The Handmaiden meets Thelma and Louise.Tokyo, 1979. Yoriko Shindo, a workhorse of a woman who has been an outcast her whole life, is kidnapped and dragged to the lair of the Naiki-kai, a branch of the yakuza. After she savagely fends off a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • My Annihilation

    by Fuminori Nakamura ...
    Translated by Sam Bett ...
    What transforms a person into a killer? Can it be something as small as a suggestion?Turn this page, and you may forfeit your entire life.With My Annihilation, Fuminori Nakamura, master of literary noir, has constructed a puzzle box of a narrative in the form of a confessional diary that implicates its reader in a heinous crime.Delving relentlessly into the darkest corners of human consciousness, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Beggar Student

    by Osamu Dazai ...
    Translated by Sam Bett ...
    For fans of No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai’s darkly bewitching novel about the small redemptions of being a pathetic, miserable writer.A fictional writer in his thirties named Osamu Dazai has just mailed his publisher an awful manuscript, filling him with dread and shame. Wandering along a river in a nearby park in suburban Tokyo, he meets a high-school dropout and the two get into an intellectual ... Read more

    $10.09 USD

  • Terminal Boredom

    Stories

    by Izumi Suzuki ...
    Translated by Polly Barton, Sam Bett, David Boyd, Daniel Joseph ...
    **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 icon**At turns nonchalantly hip and charmingly deranged, Suzuki's singular slant on speculative fiction would be echoed in countless later works, from Margaret Atwood and Harumi ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Woman, the Boy, and the Whale

    by Sonoko Machida ...
    Translated by Sam Bett ...
    **THE MILLION-COPY JAPANESE BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE JAPAN BOOKSELLERS' AWARDMADE INTO AN AWARD-NOMINATED FILM"A love letter to those who've always felt out of step with the world." —Mikki Brammer, bestselling author of The Collected Regrets of CloverFrom the internationally bestselling author of The Convenience Store By the Sea, a deeply moving story about the unexpected bond between a woman who ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Rope Artist

    by Fuminori Nakamura ...
    Translated by Sam Bett ...
    The aftermath of the murder of a bondage teacher reveals the darkest corners of the human mind in this chilling new mystery from the master of Japanese literary noir.Two detectives. Two identical women. One dead body— then two, then three, then four. All knotted up in Japan’s underground BDSM scene and kinbaku, a form of rope bondage which bears a complex cultural history of spirituality, torture, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Music Sets You Free

    by Ryuichi Sakamoto ...
    Translated by Sam Bett ...
    A bestseller in Japan, a remarkable reflection on making art, living life, and accepting death, from the legendary Ryuichi Sakamoto, the world-renowned musical genius and godfather of electronic music.One of Japan's most influential artists and composers, Ryuichi Sakamoto was a man of multitudes. Perhaps best known as the Oscar-winning composer of Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor and a ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Hit Parade of Tears

    Stories

    by Izumi Suzuki ...
    Translated by Sam Bett, David Boyd, Daniel Joseph, Helen O'Horan ...
    Series series Verso Fiction
    A new collection of stories from the cult author of Terminal BoredomIzumi Suzuki had ideas about doing things differently, ideas that paid little attention to the laws of physics, or the laws of the land. In this new collection, her skewed imagination distorts and enhances some of the classic concepts of science fiction and fantasy.A philandering husband receives a bestial punishment from a wife ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Star

    by Yukio Mishima ...
    Translated by Sam Bett ...
    For the first time in English, a glittering novella about stardom from “one of the greatest avant-garde Japanese writers of the twentieth century” (Judith Thurman, The New Yorker)Winner of the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese LiteratureAll eyes are on Rikio. And he likes it, mostly. His fans cheer, screaming and yelling to attract his attention—they would kill ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Breasts and Eggs

    by Mieko Kawakami ...
    Narrated by Emily Woo Zeller, Jeena Yi ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 22 min

    The story of three women by a writer hailed by Haruki Murakami as Japan’s most important contemporary novelist.Challenging every preconception about storytelling and prose style, mixing wry humor and riveting emotional depth, Kawakami is today one of Japan’s most important and bestselling writers. She exploded onto the cultural scene first as a musician, then as a poet and popular blogger, and is ... Read more

    $22.95 USD

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    All the Lovers in the Night

    by Mieko Kawakami ...
    Narrated by Mirai Booth-Ong ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 44 min

    The bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs, Mieko Kawakami invites listeners back into her immediately recognizable fictional world with this new, extraordinary novel and demonstrates yet again why she is one of today’s most uncategorizable, insightful, and talented novelists.Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copyeditor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone in a city where it is not easy to form ... Read more

    $16.95 USD