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Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami; Sam Bett (Translator); David Boyd (Translator)

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So amazing it took my breath away' Haruki Murakami, international bestselling author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles Breasts and Eggs explores the inner conflicts of an adolescent girl who refuses to communicate with her mother except through writing. Through the story of these women, Kawakami paints a ...Show more

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The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida by Clarissa Goenawan

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Category: Translated Fiction

From the critically acclaimed author of Rainbirds comes a novel of tragedy anddark histories set in Japan. University sophomore Miwako Sumida has hanged herself, leaving those closest to her reeling. In the months before her suicide, she was hiding away in a remote mountainside village, but what, or who ...Show more

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Earthlings by Sayaka Murata

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Category: Translated Fiction

Mind blowing, dark and wild, the new novel from Sayaka Murata - author of bestseller Convenience Store Woman - asks: how far would you go just to be yourself? Natsuki isn't like the other girls. She has a wand and a transformation mirror. She might be a witch, or an alien from another planet. Together ...Show more

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People from My Neighbourhood by Hiromi Kawakami

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Category: Translated Fiction

From the best-selling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo comes a collection of playful, delightful, delectable Japanese micro-fiction. Take a story and shrink it. Make it tiny, so small it can fit in the palm of your hand. Carry the story with you everywhere, let it sit with you while you eat, let it w ...Show more

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Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin

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Category: Translated Fiction

A visionary novel about our interconnected world, about the collision of horror and humanity, from the Man Booker-shortlisted master of the spine-tingling tale One of Huffington Post India's '50 Books to Look Forward to in 2020' They've infiltrated homes in Hong Kong, shops in Vancouver, the streets of ...Show more

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Reconciliation by Naoya Shiga; Ted Goossen (Translator)

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Category: Translated Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.

Reconciliation, published here for the first time in the English language, is an understated masterpiece of the Japanese 'I novel' tradition (a confessional literary form). Naoya Shiga's novella is a quietly devastating reflection on all kinds of reconciliation: from his own familial reunion, to the uni ...Show more

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No Presents, Please: Mumbai Stories by Jayant Kaikani

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Category: Literary Fiction

Winner of the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and the Atta Galatta-Bangalore Literature Festival Lifetime Achievement Award, Jayant Kaikini is one of India's most celebrated short-story writers. For readers of Jhumpa Lahiri and Rohinton Mistry, as well as Lorrie Moore and George Saunders, here are ...Show more

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The Discomfort of Evening (International Man Booker Prize Winner 2020) by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld; Michele Hutchison (Translator)

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Category: Translated Fiction

Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2020. The sensational Dutch bestseller: Marieke Lucas Rijneveld's extraordinary portrait of a farming family distorted by grief. I asked God if he please couldn't take my brother Matthies instead of my rabbit. 'Amen.' Ten-year-old Jas has a uniq ...Show more

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Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Café by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

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Category: Translated Fiction

In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time... From the author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold comes a story of four ...Show more

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Crossed Lines by Marie Darrieussecq

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Category: Translated Fiction

When her mother offers Rose a Mediterranean cruise with her two children, she jumps at the chance to get away from her husband who drinks too much, and the renovations of their holiday house in the south. But one night the cruise ship comes upon a shipwrecked boat full of refugees, who are taken aboard. ...Show more

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The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa

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Category: Translated Fiction

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 b ...Show more

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The Cyberiad - Fables for the Cybernetic Age by Stanislaw Lem

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Category: Translated Fiction | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.

Stanislaw Lem is perhaps the most original and influential European science-fiction writer of the twentieth century. His ornate, phantasmagorical writing probes the furthest reaches of the universe while remaining deeply and particularly human. The Cyberiad, one of Lem's most beloved works, follows the ...Show more

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Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami; Sam Bett (Translator); David Boyd (Translator)

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The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida by Clarissa Goenawan