At once heart-rending and heartwarming, this bestselling shortlistee of the Japan Booksellers' Prize is a celebraton of community libraries and the life-changing power of book recommendation.

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 Meiji era. With acerbic wit and sardonic perspective…

A million-copy bestseller, a poignant and thought-provoking Japanese tale that asks what it really is that makes life worth living.