Literary Fiction
Convenience Store Woman
A Tokyo woman who has worked in the same convenience store for eighteen years faces mounting pressure to live a more conventional life.
Asia · 3 books
Books for Japan & Korea
From a convenience store in Tokyo to the tea houses of Kyoto and a Korean family in Japan.
Convenience Store Woman is short enough for a single flight to Tokyo.
Historical Fiction
Memoirs of a Geisha
A fisherman's daughter is sold into a Kyoto geisha house and learns the arts, rivalries and sacrifices of a hidden world.
Historical Fiction
Pachinko
Four generations of a Korean family make their lives in Japan across the twentieth century, held together by stubborn love and quiet endurance.