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Vintage, 1993. Paperback. New. A dizzying short story collection that displays Murakami's genius for uncov ering the surreal in the everyday, the extraordinary within the ordinary *Featuring the story 'Barn Burning', the inspiration behind the Palme d'Or nominated film Burning* When a man's favourite elephant vanishes, the balance of his whole life is subtly upset. A couple's midnight hunger pangs drive them to hold up a McDo nald's. A woman finds she is irresistible to a small green monster that bur rows through her front garden. An insomniac wife wakes up in a twilight wor ld of semi-consciousness in which anything seems possible - even death. In every one of these stories Murakami makes a determined assault on the normal.

Banseisha. Hardback. Very Good/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.

Doubleday, 2021. Paperback. New. The uplifting new cat novel from the million-copy bestselling author of The Travelling Cat Chronicles 'Quirky and life-enhancing' THE TIMES Biggest Books of the Autumn 2023 _____________________ Against changing seasons in Japan, seven cats weave their way through their owners' lives. - A needy kitten rescued from the recycling bin teaches a new father how to parent his own human baby - An elderly cat hatches a plan to pass into the next world as a spirit so that he and his owner may be together for ever - A colony of wild cats on a holiday island shows a young boy not to stand in nature's way - A family is perplexed by their cat's devotion to their charismatic but un caring father - A woman curses how her cat constantly visits her at night Bursting with empathy and love, THE GOODBYE CAT explores the unstoppable cy cle of life as we see how the steadiness and devotion of a well-loved cat n ever lets us down. A huge bestseller in Japan, every page is a joyous… Leer más

Scholastic Paperbacks, 2009. 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. You've never read a fantasy novel like this one! The deep well of Japanese myth merges with the Western fantasy tradition for a novel that's as rich in place and culture as it is hard to put down.Balsa was a wanderer and warrior for hire. Then she rescued a boy flung into a raging river -- and at that moment, her destiny changed. Now Balsa must protect the boy -- the Prince Chagum -- on his quest to deliver the great egg of the water spirit to its source in the sea. As they travel across the land of Yogo and discover the truth about the spirit, they find themselves hunted by two deadly enemies: the egg-eating monster Rarunga . . . and the prince's own father.

Sayzansha Publications, 1998. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting.

Picador, 2022. Paperback. New. From the bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs and international literary sensation Mieko Kawakami, comes a sharp and illuminating novel about a four teen-year-old boy subjected to relentless bullying. In Heaven, a fourteen-year old boy is tormented for having a lazy eye. Inst ead of resisting, he chooses to suffer in silence. The only person who unde rstands what he is going through is a female classmate, Kojima, who experie nces similar treatment at the hands of her bullies. Providing each other wi th immeasurable consolation at a time in their lives when they need it most , the two young friends grow closer than ever. But what, ultimately, is the nature of a friendship when your shared bond is terror? Unflinching yet tender, sharply observed, intimate and multi-layered, this simple yet profound novel stands as yet another dazzling testament to Mieko Kawakami's uncontainable talent. There can be little doubt that it has cemented her reputation as one of the most… Leer más

Vintage, 2003. Paperback. New. Beautiful, brilliant and profoundly strange - discover Yoko Ogawa. He is a brilliant maths professor who lives with only eighty minutes of sho rt-term memory. She is a sensitive and astute young housekeeper who is entrusted to take ca re of him. Each morning, as the Professor and the Housekeeper are reintroduced to one another, a strange, beautiful relationship blossoms between them. The Profe ssor may not remember what he had for breakfast, but his mind is still aliv e with elegant equations from the past. He devises clever maths riddles - b ased on her shoe size or her birthday - and the numbers reveal a sheltering and poetic world to both the Housekeeper and her ten-year-old son. With ea ch new equation, the three lost souls forge an affection more mysterious th an imaginary numbers, and a bond that runs deeper than memory. 'Has all the charm and restraint of any novel by Ishiguro and the whimsy of Murakami' Los Angeles Times 'Beautiful...the extraordinary Yoko… Leer más

Rider, 1937. Paperback. New. The beloved multi-million copy bestselling Japanese classic about finding o ne's place in the world A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Academy Award-winning anime master Hayao Miyazaki's favourite childhood boo k and the inspiration behind the Studio Ghibli film 'In How Do You Live?, Copper, our hero, and his uncle are our guides in science, in ethics, in thinking. And on the way they take us, through a school story set in Japan in 1937, to the heart of the questions we need to ask ourselves about the way we live our lives. We will experience betrayal and learn about how to make tofu. We will examine fear, and how we cannot always live up to who we think we are, and we learn about shame, and how to deal with it. We will learn about gravity and about cities, and most of all, we will learn to think about things - to, as the writer Theodore Sturgeon put it, ask the next question' - from the foreword by Neil Gaiman.

Rider, 2023. Paperback. New. Publishing in English for the very first time, Japan's beloved coming-of-ag e classic on what really matters in life. The streets of Tokyo swarm below fifteen year-old Copper as he gazes out in to the city of his childhood. Struck by the thought of the infinite people whose lives play out alongside his own, he begins to wonder, how do you liv e? Considering life's biggest questions for the first time, Copper turns to hi s dear uncle for heart-warming wisdom. As the old man guides the boy on a j ourney of philosophical discovery, a timeless tale unfolds, offering a poig nant reflection on what it means to be human. The favourite childhood book of anime master Hayao Miyazaki, How Do You Live? is the basis a highly anticipated film from Studio Ghibli.

Seven Seas, 2018. Paperback. New. 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. Also known as Let Me Eat Your Pancreas, the coming-of-age tearjerker that i nspired two films! A high school boy finds the diary of his classmateâ??only to discover that she's dying. Yamauchi Sakura has been silently suffering from a pancreatic disease, and now exactly one person outside her family knows. He swears to her that he won't tell anyone what he learned, and the shared secret brings them closer together in this deeply moving, first-person story that traces their developing relationship in Sakura's final months of life.

FABER ET FABER, 2023. Paperback. New. WINNER OF THE AKUTAGAWA PRIZE 'Usami so successfully depicts the consequences of pure obsession' Guardian 'Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand what it is like to be a teenage girl' Catherine Prasifka High-school student Akari has only one passion in her life: her oshi, her idol. His name is Masaki Ueno, best known as one-fifth of Japanese pop group Maza Maza. Akari's dedication to her oshi consumes her days completely - until he disgraces himself and Akari's world goes into a tailspin.

Stone Bridge Press, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/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 divorced man angry at his wife finds a painfully prominent outlet in a pe rmanent erection; a model thinks every man on the street is a stalker; an o verbearing magazine editor relieves his mid-life crisis by long-distance sw imming . . . These are some of the patients who descend to the basement con sulting room of Doctor Ichiro Irabu, an obese, eccentric neurologist with a n injection fetish, an Oedipus complex. and a pea-green Porsche. This colle ction of five wacky stories has been adapted for TV and the movies in Japan . Hideo Okuda won the prestigious Naoki Prize in 2004. "It helps put into perspective the annoyances and disappointments we all fa ce in modern society as well as giving the reader a chance to reflect on wa ys to make his or her life a bit better." -- The Daily… Leer más

Faber & Faber, 2018. Paperback. New.

Knopf, 2005. Paperback. New.

Random House UK, 2019. Paperback. Good. 'Beguiling... Murakami is brilliant at folding the humdrum alongside the su pernatural; finding the magic that's nested in life's quotidian details' Gu ardian When a thirty-something portrait painter is abandoned by his wife, he holes up in the mountain home of a famous artist. The days drift by, spent paint ing, listening to music and drinking whiskey in the evenings. But then he d iscovers a strange painting in the attic and unintentionally begins a stran ge journey of self-discovery that involves a mysterious ringing bell, a pre cocious thirteen-year-old girl, a Nazi assassination attempt and a haunted underworld. A stunning work of imagination, Killing Commendatore is a surreal tale of love and loneliness, war and art.

Penguin Classics, 2010. Paperback. New. The great Japanese author's most famous novel, in its first new English tra nslation in half a century No collection of Japanese literature is complete without Natsume Soseki's Kokoro, his most famous novel and the last he completed before his death. Published here in the first new translation in more than fifty years, Kokoro--meaning "heart"--is the story of a subtle and poignant friendship between two unnamed characters, a young man and an enigmatic elder whom he calls "Sensei." Haunted by tragic secrets that have cast a long shadow over his life, Sensei slowly opens up to his young disciple, confessing indiscretions from his own student days that have left him reeling with guilt, and revealing, in the seemingly unbridgeable chasm between his moral anguish and his student's struggle to understand it, the profound cultural shift from one generation to the next that characterized Japan in the early twentieth century.

Granta, 2018. Paperback. New. Yoshiro thinks he might never die. A hundred years old and counting, he is one of Japan's many 'old-elderly'; men and women who remember a time before the air and the sea were poisoned, before terrible catastrophe prompted Ja pan to shut itself off from the rest of the world. He may live for decades yet, but he knows his beloved great-grandson - born frail and prone to sick ness - might not survive to adulthood. Day after day, it takes all of Yoshi ro's sagacity to keep Mumei alive. As hopes for Japan's youngest generation fade, a secretive organisation embarks on an audacious plan to find a cure - might Yoshiro's great-grandson be the key to saving the last children of Tokyo?

FABER ET FABER, 2023. Paperback. New. From the author of international bestseller Convenience Store Woman comes a collection of short fiction: weird, out of this world and like nothing you 've read before. An engaged couple falls out over the husband's dislike of clothes and objec ts made from human materials; a young girl finds herself deeply enamoured w ith the curtain in her childhood bedroom; people honour their dead by eatin g them and then procreating. Published in English for the first time, this exclusive edition also includes the story that first brought Sayaka Murata international acclaim: ‘A Clean Marriage', which tells the story of a happi ly asexual couple who must submit to some radical medical procedures if the y are to conceive a longed-for child. Mixing taboo-breaking body horror with feminist revenge fables, old ladies who love each other and young women finding empathy and transformation in unlikely places, Life Ceremony is a wild ride to the outer edges of one of the most… Leer más

Vintage, 1994. Paperback. New. Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020, an enthralling Orwelli an novel about the terrors of state surveillance from one of Japan's greate st writers. 'Beautiful... Haunting' Sunday Times 'A dreamlike story of dystopia' Jia Tolentino __________ Hat, ribbon, bird rose. To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no longer has any meaning. It can be burned in the garden, thrown in the river or handed over to the Memory Police. Soon enough, the island forgets it ever existed. When a young novelist discovers that her editor is in danger of being taken away by the Memory Police, she desperately wants to save him. For some rea son, he doesn't forget, and it's becoming increasingly difficult for him to hide his memories. Who knows what will vanish next? __________ Finalist for the National Book Award 2019 Longlisted for the Translated Book Award 2020 New York Times 100 Notable Books of the Year 'This timeless fable of control and loss feels more timely than… Leer más

Vintage Publishing, 2020. Paperback. New. To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no longer has any meaning . It can be burned in the garden, thrown in the river or handed over to the Memory Police. Soon enough, the island forgets it ever existed. When a you ng novelist discovers that her editor is in danger of being taken away by t he Memory Police, she desperately wants to save him. For some reason, he do esn't forget, and it's becoming increasingly difficult for him to hide his memories. Who knows what will vanish next?"--.