Best Contemporary Japanese Novels - April 2024

Illumination Night: A Novel

• ASIN: B00N5E57X8
• ASIN: B00N5E57X8
• Manufacturer: Open Road Media

Never Let Me Go

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes a devastating novel of innocence, knowledge, and loss.   As children Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were. Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1400078776
• ASIN: 1400078776
• ISBN: 9781400078776
• Brand: Vintage Books USA
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel

• ASIN: B001NLL5AO
• ASIN: B001NLL5AO
• Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

The Remains of the Day

• ASIN: 0679731725
• ASIN: 0679731725
• ISBN: 0679731725
• Brand: Vintage International
• Manufacturer: Vintage International

Musashi: An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era

The classic samurai novel about the real exploits of the most famous swordsman.Miyamoto Musashi was the child of an era when Japan was emerging from decades of civil strife. Lured to the great Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 by the hope of becoming a samurai--without really knowing what it meant--he regains consciousness after the battle to find himself lying defeated, dazed and wounded among thousands of the dead and dying. On his way home, he commits a rash act, becomes a fugitive and brings life in his own village to a standstill--until he is captured by a weaponless Zen monk.The lovely Otsu, ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 156836427X
• ASIN: 156836427X
• ISBN: 9781568364278
• Brand: Brand: Kodansha USA
• Manufacturer: Kodansha International

Kafka on the Shore (Vintage International)

• ASIN: B000FC2ROU
• ASIN: B000FC2ROU
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Family Trust: A Novel

Some of us are more equal than others....Meet Stanley Huang: father, husband, ex-husband, man of unpredictable tastes and temper, aficionado of all-inclusive vacations and bargain luxury goods, newly diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. For years, Stanley has claimed that he’s worth a small fortune. But the time is now coming when the details of his estate will finally be revealed, and Stanley’s family is nervous.For his son Fred, the inheritance Stanley has long alluded to would soothe the pain caused by years of professional disappointment. By now, the Harvard Business School graduate had e... [Read More]

• ASIN: B077M9R84W
• ASIN: B077M9R84W
• Manufacturer: William Morrow

Cryptonomicon

• ASIN: B000FC11A6
• ASIN: B000FC11A6
• Manufacturer: William Morrow

When the Emperor Was Divine

The debut novel from the PEN/Faulkner Award Winning Author of The Buddha in the Attic On a sunny day in Berkeley, California, in 1942, a woman sees a sign in a post office window, returns to her home, and matter-of-factly begins to pack her family's possessions. Like thousands of other Japanese Americans they have been reclassified, virtually overnight, as enemy aliens and are about to be uprooted from their home and sent to a dusty internment camp in the Utah desert. In this lean and devastatingly evocative first novel, Julie Otsuka tells their story from five flawlessly realized points of... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0385721811
• ASIN: 0385721811
• ISBN: 0385721811
• Brand: Anchor Books
• Manufacturer: Anchor

Memoirs of a Geisha (Vintage Contemporaries)

• ASIN: B000FCKMEM
• ASIN: B000FCKMEM
• Manufacturer: Vintage

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a tour de force—and one of Haruki Murakami’s most acclaimed and beloved novels.In a Tokyo suburb, a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife’s missing cat—and then for his wife as well—in a netherworld beneath the city’s placid surface. As these searches intersect, he encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists. Gripping, prophetic, and suffused with comedy and menace, this is an astonishingly imaginative detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets from Japan’s forgotten campaign ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0679775439
• ASIN: 0679775439
• ISBN: 0679775439
• Brand: Haruki Murakami
• Manufacturer: Vintage

1Q84 (Vintage International)

• ASIN: B004LROUW2
• ASIN: B004LROUW2
• Manufacturer: Vintage

A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel

A brilliant, unforgettable novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki—shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award“A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be.”In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there’s only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates’ bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who’s lived more than a century. A diary is Nao’s only solace—and will touch lives in ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0143124870
• UPC: 884493975294
• ASIN: 0143124870
• ISBN: 0143124870
• Brand: Penguin Books
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

A Pledge of Silence

2014 Winner — Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award — General Fiction When Margie Bauer joins the Army Nurse Corps in 1941, she is delighted to be sent to Manila, the Pearl of the Orient. Though rumors of war circulate, she feels safe, trusting the island is fortified and the Filipino troops are well trained.On December 8, 1941, her dreamworld shatters when the Japanese invade the Philippines. The US Army evacuates to the Bataan Peninsula, where she cares for the wounded soldiers in a field hospital, and then in a catacomb of tunnels on Corregidor Island. Ultimately captured, she is interned in ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00LWE0QZC
• ASIN: B00LWE0QZC
• Manufacturer: Lake Union Publishing

Killing Commendatore: A novel

When a thirty-something portrait painter is abandoned by his wife, he secludes himself in the mountain home of a world famous artist. One day, the young painter hears a noise from the attic, and upon investigation, he discovers a previously unseen painting. By unearthing this hidden work of art, he unintentionally opens a circle of mysterious circumstances; and to close it, he must undertake a perilous journey into a netherworld that only Haruki Murakami could conjure. A tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art, Killing Commendatore is a stunning work of imagination from one of our gr... [Read More]

• ASIN: B079WM2HMV
• ASIN: B079WM2HMV
• Manufacturer: Knopf

Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques : A Contemporary Guide to the Ancient Investment Techniques of the Far East, Second Edition

In this contemporary guide to the ancient investment techniques of the Far East, the author provides an in-depth explanation of candlestick plotting and

• UPC: 1530850
• Rating: 4.5

Shogun : The Epic Novel of Japan

9781982537524

• UPC: 942042433
• Rating: 5.0

Anime from Akira to Howl's Moving Castle : Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation

Updated and expanded edition of Susan Napier's cult classic, in-depth, sophisticated look at Japanese

• UPC: 3902678
• Rating: 4.333

The Japanese Mind : Understanding Contemporary Japanese Culture

Offers Westerners an invaluable key to the unique aspects of Japanese

• UPC: 1750632

Drawing on Tradition : Manga, Anime, and Religion in Contemporary Japan

Manga and Anime exert tremendous influence on contemporary Japanese culture and are increasingly consumed abroad. This book examines these two related genres of popular culture from the perspective of religion, utilizing historical and ethnographic methods.

• UPC: 20861443

Burning Your Own: A coming-of-age novel by one of the best contemporary Irish writers - eBook

It is the summer of 1969 and ten-year-old Mal is finding it difficult to settle into his new home, a housing estate on the outskirts of Belfast. He befriends a brash and rebellious teenager, Francy,

• UPC: 962281327

Harumi's Japanese Cooking : More than 75 Authentic and Contemporary Recipes from Japan's Most PopularCooking Expert

Cooking expert and lifestyle guru Kurihara has won over the hearts of Japanese home cooks with her simple, delicious dishes. Now, this charismatic former housewife brings her award-winning kitchen secrets to America, in this collection

• UPC: 4055387

Essential Japanese Grammar : A Comprehensive Guide to Contemporary Usage: Learn Japanese Grammar and Vocabulary Quickly and Effectively

Essential Japanese Grammar is an indispensable study guide for students of the Japanese language at all levels. Long the standard in Japanese language education, it provides clear, jargon-free explanations of how Japanese grammar works and

• UPC: 17190854

Best of Bishonen : Most Updated Boys Illustrations from Japanese Comics and Games

Fujoshi, or Yaoi fandom supporters of femme gay media aimed at teenage girls represent an ever-increasing market in Japan. Best of Bishonen presents an up-to-date art collection of beautiful boys popular with Fujoshi or Yaoi

• UPC: 55420692

Harumi's Japanese Home Cooking : Simple, Elegant Recipes for Contemporary Tastes

Kurihara, Japans most popular cooking expert and award-winning author of "Harumis Japanese Cooking," returns with a second collection of 70 new recipes written specifically with the Western palate in

• UPC: 5620283