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Vintage, 2009. Paperback. New. A new copy. A mesmerising, epic, utterly involving masterpiece from Haruki Murakami The year is 1Q84. This is the real world, there is no doubt about that. But in this world, there are two moons in the sky. In this world, the fates of two people, Tengo and Aomame, are closely inter twined. They are each, in their own way, doing something very dangerous. An d in this world, there seems no way to save them both. Something extraordinary is starting. '1Q84 has a range and sophistication that surpasses anything else in his oeuvre. It is his most achieved novel; an epic in which form and content are neatly aligned' Independent on Sunday.

Knopf Doubleday Publishing G., 2013. 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. NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo. A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmatic suggestion and begins to no tice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 - -"Q is for 'question mark.' A world that bears a question." Meanwhile, an a spiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostwriting project. He beco mes so wrapped up with the work and its unusual author that, soon, his prev iously placid life begins to come unraveled. As Aomame's and Tengo's narratives converge over the course of this single year, we learn of the profound and tangled connections that bind them ever closer: a beautiful, dyslexic teenage girl with a unique vision; a mysterio us religious cult that… Leer más

Random House UK, 2012. 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 year is 1Q84. This is the real world, there is no doubt about that. But in this world, there are two moons in the sky. In this world, the fates of two people, Tengo and Aomame, are closely intertwined. They are each, in their own way, doing something very dangerous. And in this world, there seems no way to save them both. Something extraordinary is starting.

Random House UK, 2017. Paperback. New. It's not the journey that counts, but who is at your side Nana is on a road trip, but he is not sure where to. All that matters is th at he can sit beside his beloved Satoru in the front of his silver van. Sat oru is keen to visit three old friends from his youth, though Nana doesn't know why and Satoru won't say. Set against the backdrop of Japan's changing seasons and narrated with a rare gentleness and striking humour, Nana's story explores the wonder and thrill of life's unexpected detours. It is about friendship, solitude, and knowing when to give and when to take. Above all, it shows how acts of love, both great and small, can transform our lives.

Vintage Publishing, 2008. Paperback. New. The midnight hour approaches in an almost empty all-night diner. Mari sips her coffee and glances up from a book as a young man, a musician, intrudes on her solitude. Both have missed the last train home. The musician has pla ns to rehearse with his jazz band all night, Mari is equally unconcerned an d content to read, smoke and drink coffee until dawn. They realise they've been acquainted through Eri, Mari's beautiful sister. The musician soon lea ves with a promise to return before dawn. Shortly afterwards Mari will be i nterrupted a second time by a girl from the Alphaville Hotel; a Chinese pro stitute has been hurt by a client, the girl has heard Mari speaks fluent Ch inese and requests her help. Meanwhile Eri is at home and sleeps a deep, heavy sleep that is 'too perfec t, too pure' to be normal; pulse and respiration at the lowest required lev el. She has been in this soporfic state for two months; Eri has become the classic myth - a sleeping beauty.… Leer más

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 his evenings drin king with old associates in quiet lantern-lit bars. His should be a tranqui l retirement. But as his memories continually return to the past - to a lif e and a career deeply touched by the rise of Japanese militarism - a dark s hadow begins to grow over his serenity.

Faber & Faber, 2013. Paperback. New. Kazuo Ishiguro's eight books have won him world-wide renown and many honour s, including the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Booker Prize. His work h as been translated into over forty languages. The Remains of the Dayand Nev er Let Me Go have each sold in excess of one million copies in Faber editio ns alone, and both were adapted into highly acclaimed films. His most recen t novel, The Buried Giant, was published in 2015, debuting at number 1 on t he Sunday Times bestseller list.

Vintage, 2022. Paperback. New. Five killers. One train journey. But who will survive? An original and prop ulsive thriller from a massive Japanese bestseller. Satoshi looks like an innocent schoolboy but he is really a viciously cunni ng psychopath. Kimura's young son is in a coma thanks to him, and Kimura ha s tracked him onto the bullet train heading from Tokyo to Morioka to exact his revenge. But Kimura soon discovers that they are not the only dangerous passengers onboard. Nanao, the self-proclaimed 'unluckiest assassin in the world', and the deadly partnership of Tangerine and Lemon are also travelling to Morioka. A suitcase full of money leads others to show their hands. Why are they all on the same train, and who will get off alive at the last station?

Tuttle Shokai Inc, 2000. Tankobon Softc. 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.

Picador, 2023. Paperback. New. Toshikazu Kawaguchi's poignant Before We Say Goodbye, translated from Japan ese by Geoffrey Trousselot, explores the age-old question: what would you d o if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time? The regulars at the magical Cafe Funiculi Funicula are well acquainted with its famous legend and extraordinary, secret menu time travel offering. Man y patrons have reunited with old flames, made amends with estranged family, and visited loved ones. But the journey is not without risks and there are rules to follow. Travellers must have visited the cafe previously and most importantly, must return to the present in the time it takes for their cof fee to go cold. In the tradition of Toshikazu Kawaguchi's sensational 'Before the Coffee Ge ts Cold' series, readers will once again be introduced to a new set of visi tors: The husband with something important left to say The woman who couldn't bid her dog farewell The… Leer más

Tuttle Publishing, 1905. Paperback. New. Written over the course of 1904-6, Soseki's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirizes the follies of upper-middle-class Japanese society during the Mei ji era. With acerbic wit and sardonic perspective, it follows the whimsical adventures of a world-weary stray kitten who comments on the follies and f oibles of the people around him. The New Yorker called it "a nonchalant str ing 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 watch ing human beings in action...

Vintage Publishing, 2015. Paperback. New. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage centers on a devastati ng emotional betrayal and its consequences. Tsukuru Tazaki belongs to a tig ht-knit group of five friends in high school--three boys and two girls who form a perfect circle they imagine will stay together forever. But when Tsu kuru returns home from college in Tokyo, he finds himself inexplicably rebu ffed by the group. Something has changed, but nobody, not even his closest friends, will tell him what. Years later, Tsukuru, now a successful enginee r, begins dating an older woman named Sara and confesses to her the shadow this betrayal has cast over his life. Sara urges Tsukuru to try to find his old group and to try to solve the mystery that has haunted him all these y ears: why did they suddenly turn on him? On a quest to discover the truth, Tsukuru travels back to meet his old friends--with the exception of Shiro, the group's most volatile and psychologically unstable member, who… Leer más

Granta Books, 2019. Paperback. New. Meet Keiko. Keiko is 36 years old. She's never had a boyfriend, and she's been working in the same supermarket for eighteen years. Keiko's family wishes she'd get a proper job. Her friends wonder why she wo n't get married. But Keiko knows what makes her happy, and she's not going to let anyone com e between her and her convenience store... *Convenience Store Woman comes in three different colours; the colour you receive will be chosen at random*.

Kurodahan Press, 2023. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. "DNA contains two types of base pair sequences. Exons are meaningful templa tes for making proteins. Introns are meaningless, random sequences. Yet int rons account for ninety-five percent of human DNA. Why is such a huge propo rtion of the genome reserved for useless code?" What if all that genetic information wasn't really useless? What if it was put there by someone, something, in the impossibly distant past, for a purp ose? And what if humanity's interest in understanding and engineering human DNA unlocks something that should have remained hidden? Award-winning science fiction author Umehara drags you screaming into a dar ker future as the monsters of our own genetic code come to life, revealing all too clearly humanity's fatal misunderstanding of its place in the unive rse... and its very reason for existence, weaving the Cthulhu… Leer más

Vintage Publishing, 2003. Paperback. New. Features such characters as: High-class call girls billed to Mastercard; a psychic 13-year-old dropout with a passion for Talking Heads; a hunky matin ee idol doomed to play dentists and teachers; and, a one-armed beach-combin g poet, an uptight hotel clerk and one very bemused narrator caught in the web of advanced capitalist mayhem.

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 in grave danger. Only his skill and determination can save him as he moves towards the startling climax of his search.

New English Library, 1978. First Edition. 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.

Penguin Books, 2023. Paperback. New. About the Author Emi Yagi is an editor at a Japanese women's magazine. She was born in 1988 and lives in Tokyo. Diary of a Void is her first novel; it won the Dazai Os amu Prize, awarded annually to the best debut work of fiction. David Boyd (translator) has twice won the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature. He has translated fiction by Mieko Kawakami, Izumi Suzuki, and Hiroko Oyamada, among others. He is a n assistant professor of Japanese at the University of North Carolina at Ch arlotte. Lucy North (translator) is the translator of The Woman in the Purple Skirt by Natsuko Imamura as well as fiction and nonfiction by over half a dozen other modern and contemporary Japanese writers. Her fiction translations have appeared in Granta, Words Without Borders, and The Southern Review, as well as in The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories, The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature, and Found in Translation: 100… Leer más

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." --Katy Waldman, The New York er "Always expect the unexpected when you're not expecting." --Sloane Crosley A woman in Tokyo avoids harassment at work by perpetuating, for nine months and beyond, the lie that she's pregnant in this prizewinning, thrillingly subversive debut novel about the mother of all deceptions, for fans of Conv enience Store Woman and Breasts and Eggs When thirty-four-year-old Ms. Shibata gets a new job to escape sexual haras sment at her old one, she finds that as the only woman at her new workplace --a manufacturer of cardboard tubes--she is expected to do all the menial t asks. One day she announces that she can't clear away her coworkers' dirty cups--because she's… Leer más

FABER ET FABER, 2021. Paperback. New. Natsuki isn't like the other girls. She has a wand and a transformation mir ror. She might be a witch, or an alien from another planet. Together with h er cousin Yuu, Natsuki spends her summers in the wild mountains of Nagano, dreaming of other worlds. When a terrible sequence of events threatens to p art the two children forever, they make a promise: survive, no matter what. Now Natsuki is grown. She lives a quiet life with her asexual husband, sur viving as best she can by pretending to be normal. But the demands of Natsu ki's family are increasing, her friends wonder why she's still not pregnant , and dark shadows from Natsuki's childhood are pursuing her. Fleeing the s uburbs for the mountains of her childhood, Natsuki prepares herself with a reunion with Yuu. Will he still remember their promise? And will he help he r keep it?