From Akutagawa Award-winning author Yoko Ogawa comes a haunting trio of novellas about love, fertility, obsession, and how even the most innocent gestures may contain a hairline crack of cruel intent. A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster br
A tale of twisted love from Yoko Ogawa—author of The Diving Pool and The Housekeeper and the Professor.In a crumbling seaside hotel on the coast of Japan, quiet seventeen-year-old Mari works the front desk as her mother tends to the off-season customers
After spending sixteen years in prison for a crime of the heart, Shiro Kikutani is released into a world he no longer recognizes. He must readjust to the bright and vigorous stimulus of Tokyo while fending off his own dark memories. In a spare yet powerfu
This is the story of Kazuki, an abused and troubled 14-year-old boy in the poor, crime-ridden Japanese port city of Yokohama, who kills his detached, repulsive father and tries to take over his business. However, he soon becomes all too painfully aware of
Dans un ancien foyer de jeunes filles transformé en laboratoire, M. Deshimaru, taxidermiste du souvenir, prépare et surveille des "spécimens", tandis que la narratrice de ce récit, assistante et réceptionniste, accueille les clients venus confier au
Un jeune muséographe vient d'entrer en fonction dans un manoir aux confins du monde. Sous la direction d'une vieille femme plutôt étrange, il devra recenser, agencer, mettre en scène une véritable collection d'objets, de reliques du quotidien, de ves
Originally published in 1918, Rivalry is regarded as the masterpiece of Nagai Kafu, a Japanese novelist known for his brilliant renderings of Tokyo in the early years of modern Japan. Stephen Snyder offers the first English translation of the complete, un
Her pupils killed her daughter. Now, she will have her revenge.After an engagement that ended in tragedy, all Yuko Moriguchi had to live for was her four-year-old child, Manami. Now, after a heartbreaking accident on the grounds of the middle school where
