The deeply moving new novel from the beloved, internationally bestselling author of Kitchen.

A powerful story of passion and friendship, the nature of love and the taboos surrounding it. N.P. is the last collection of stories by a celebrated Japanese writer, written in…

Banana Youshimoto’s depiction of the lives of Japanese youth has changed her country’s literature and earned international acclaim. In her latest work, she delivers two tales of resonant grace, of…

Yayoi, a nineteen-year-old woman from a seemingly loving middle-class family, has lately been haunted by the feeling that she has forgotten something important from her childhood. Her premonition grows stronger…

Murakami analyses the fictional and critical work of four contemporary Japanese writers: Murakami Haruki, Yoshimoto Banana, Yoshimoto Takaaki and Karatani Kojin.