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"Rewards are plentiful."- Financial Times "A must-read for Murakami fans."- Hotlist Set in the early hours of the morning in and around Tokyo, this ingeniously constructed English language debut is an energetic fresco of nocturnal existence. Hailed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627204262Author Krishma Tuli AroraFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Loyola College/Apprentice HousePublisher Loyola College/Apprentice...

Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being. Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels...

Set mainly in Uzbekistan between 1900 and 1980, The Railway introduces to us the inhabitants of the small town of Gilas on the ancient Silk Route. Among those whose stories we hear are Mefody-Jurisprudence, the town's alcoholic intellectual; Father...

The new novel from the award-winning translator of Sweet Bean Paste Winner of the Naoki Prize Winner of the Society of Authors Sasakawa Foundation Prize Perfect for fans of The Guest Cat and Before the Coffee Gets Cold 'It's no wonder the author won the...

Of the twelve short stories appearing in Ha Noi at Midnight, ten are appearing in English for the first time. Bringing to life the full range of Bao Ninh's inventive and poetic language, Quan Manh Ha and Cab Tran are granting to English readers Bao...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641294720Author Samrat UpadhyayFormat HardbackPage Count 768Imprint Soho Press IncPublisher Soho Press IncWeight(grams) 567g

The metro shudders to a halt: an unattended bag has been found, and terrorism is suspected. For the narrator, a young Vietnamese woman teaching English in the Parisian suburbs, time stops. Her son falls asleep on her shoulder and a long interior...

WINNER OF THE TAIWAN LITERATURE AWARD "An uncompromising, unsentimental, slyly humorous novel." IRISH TIMES "A haunting drama of a Taiwanese family's efforts to rise out of poverty." PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Keith Chen, the desperately yearned for...

From the award-winning author of The Old Woman with the Knife comes the thought-provoking story of community and the cultural expectations of motherhood, through four women whose lives intersect in unexpected ways at a government-run apartment complex...

Winner of the Naoki Prize Perfect for fans of The Guest Cat and Before the Coffee Gets Cold 'It's no wonder the author won the prestigious Naoki Prize for this novel, which is at times heartwarming and suspenseful, detailing true resilience and survival...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374519971Author Marguerite YourcenarFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

A dazzling novella from a rising star of Indonesian literature that explores what it means to be a woman - whoever you are, wherever you are, and whenever it is in history and time. In today's Jakarta, an unnamed man tells the story of his lifelong...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641294355Author Colin CotterillFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Soho PressPublisher Soho Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784991276811Author Baptiste Pinson WuFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Little Conqueror PressPublisher Little Conqueror PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913891329Author Lu MinFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint Balestier PressPublisher Balestier Press

Finely textured, humane and deeply relevant, these stories of love, loss, and the politics of identity, race, and belonging, challenge comfortable conventions about ourselves Deeply humane, in turn wry and humorous, the stories in this collection haunt...

A gripping story of sibling loyalty in the last days of medieval Japan. The first novel in a trilogy from the iconic Assassin's Creed universe. Japan, 1868. The Boshin War is about to break out. The Templars have infiltrated the Emperor's closest...

A woman arrives alone in Kolkata, taking refuge in a deserted apartment while she waits to undergo an unspecified surgery. In this disorienting city, everything seems new and strange: the pavement-dwellers outside her block, the collective displays of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913891237Author Ko Ko ThettFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Balestier PressPublisher Balestier PressWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804620915Author Riall NolanFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Book FolksPublisher Book FolksWeight(grams) 245g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513208923Author Natsume SsekiFormat HardbackPage Count 238Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641295307Author Colin CotterillFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Soho PressPublisher Soho Press

An absorbing, joyous, and colorful collection of stories from the qissa genre. Fabulous Machinery for the Curious presents the first English translation of some of the finest texts from the qissa genre. In this book, acclaimed translator Musharraf Ali...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143474098Author Nalin VermaFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Penguin Ebury PressPublisher Penguin Random House India

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420513622Author Vanessa ChanFormat HardbackPage Count 541Imprint Thorndike Press Large PrintPublisher Thorndike Press Large PrintWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143465614Author Rahman AbbasFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House, India

Kokoro (1914) is a novel by Natsume Soseki. Set during a period of modernization in Japan, Kokoro is a story of family, faith, and tragedy that explores timeless themes of isolation and identity. Spanning generations, Kokoro is a classic novel from one...

A remarkable novel by one of Tibet's foremost authors, The Red Wind Howls is a courageous and gripping portrayal of Tibetan suffering under Mao's regime. The story delves deep into forbidden history, spanning the famine of the Great Leap Forward, the...

A remarkable novel by one of Tibet's foremost authors, The Red Wind Howls is a courageous and gripping portrayal of Tibetan suffering under Mao's regime. The story delves deep into forbidden history, spanning the famine of the Great Leap Forward, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670098392Author Kunal BasuFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House, IndiaDimensions(mm) 220mm * 140mm * 30mm

About Dennis Washburn's translation "Washburn's version of Murasaki Shikibu's masterpiece is lucid and engaging, irresistibly drawing the reader further and further into the story and the exquisite world it creates for us of Japan's Heian court. A fresh...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913891220Author Tsering YangkyiFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Balestier PressPublisher Balestier PressWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953861665Author Siamak HerawiFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher Archipelago Books

An emotive love story written by Tew Bunnag. Set in recent times, pre-pandemic, an ageing privileged writer, blocked and disillusioned, meets Yai Li, a healer from the slums, herself suffering from past trauma, and together they begin the gradual process...

A brilliant new translation of the short improvisational fiction and memoirs of Lu Xun, the father of modern Chinese literature.This captivating translation assembles two volumes by Lu Xun, the founder of modern Chinese literature and one of East Asia's...

WINNER OF THE 2023 NATIONAL TRANSLATION AWARD IN PROSE An abandoned package is discovered in the Paris Metro: the subway workers suspect it's a terrorist bomb. A Vietnamese woman sitting nearby, her son asleep on her shoulder, waits and begins to reflect...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641294119Author Gina ApostolFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Soho PressPublisher Soho Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641297424Author Samrat UpadhyayFormat PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint Soho Press IncPublisher Soho Press IncWeight(grams) 970gDimensions(mm) 222mm * 151mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789361565908Author O. JungioFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt. LtdPublisher Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd