Announcing the first expansion in more than 40 years of the venerable New Penguin Parallel Text series. Here is the perfect introduction to contemporary Japanese fiction. Featuring many stories appearing in English for the first time, this collection, w
The stories of Yasunari Kawabata evoke an unmistakably Japanese atmosphere in their delicacy, understatement, and lyrical description. Like his later works, First Snow on Fuji is concerned with forms of presence and absence, with being, with memory and lo
If you've ever despaired of expressing yourself, you'll read Sayonara, Gangsters and understand. Set in a facetious near-future that is both mind-bendingly bizarre and achingly familiar. Sayonara, Gangsters is an inventive novel about language, expression
Hello Kitty, earthquakes, manga, samurai, robots and sushi. These are some of the things we think about when we think about Japan. This small island nation looms large in the popular imagination, in often contradictory ways: as the epitome of refinement a
The Apprenticeship of Big Toe P is a highly acclaimed work of fiction that won Japans most prestigious literary prize for women writers. A provocative, picaresque spin on a coming-of-age story, the novel tells of a young Japanese woman who wakes up one af
Yumiko e Shoichi sono due cugini, figli di sorelle gemelle. Pur essendo stati molto legati da bambini, per anni non si sono più frequentati. Si ritrovano quando Shoichi, eseguendo le ultime volontà della madre, va a trovare Yumiko, rimasta orfana di ent
Quando la nonna guaritrice decide di lasciare il Giappone, Shizukuishi si ritrova improvvisamente sola e deve abituarsi in fretta alla vita in città: uno spazio nuovo, incomprensibile e persino minaccioso. Porta sempre dentro di sé il ricordo della vita
