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Piercing by Ryu Murakami
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £10.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143038634Author Ryu MurakamiFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin... -
Audition by Ryu Murakami
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.25Documentary-maker Aoyama hasn't dated anyone in the seven years since the death of his beloved wife, Ryoko. Now even his teenage son Shige has suggested he think about remarrying. So when his best... -
Audition by Ryu Murakami 9780393338416
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.52In this gloriously over-the-top tale, Aoyama, a widower who has lived alone with his son ever since his wife died seven years before, finally decides it is time to remarry. Since Aoyama is a bit... -
Sixty-Nine by Ryu Murakami
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Murakami's 69, a side-splittingly funny coming-of-age novel set in the Japan of the sixties In a small, inconsequential city in Japan, all that matters to 17-year-old Kensuke Yazaki and his... -
Piercing by Ryu Murakami 9780747593133
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Every night, Kawashima Masayuki creeps from his bed and watches over his baby girl's crib while his wife sleeps. But this is no ordinary domestic scene. He has an ice pick in his hand, and a barely... -
In The Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami 9780747578888
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49It's just before New Year, and Frank, an overweight American tourist, has hired Kenji to take him on a guided tour of Tokyo's nightlife. But, Frank's behaviour is so odd that Kenji begins to... -
From the Fatherland with Love by Ryu Murakami
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.30An ambitious, epic dystopian novel - part political thriller and part satire. From the Fatherland, with Love is set in an alternative, dystopian present in which the dollar has collapsed and Japan's... -
In the Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami 9780143035695
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £10.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143035695Author Ryu MurakamiFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin... -
Popular Hits of the Showa Era by Ryu Murakami
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A darkly satirical tale of the generation and gender gaps in Japanese society, Ruy Murakami's Popular Hits of the Showa Era is a literary karaoke act combining manga and street culture It's a... -
Coin Locker Babies by Ryu Murakami 9781805330257
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'A cyberpunk coming-of-age tale' Japan Times Two babies are left in a Tokyo station coin locker and survive against the odds, but their lives are forever tainted by this inauspicious start. ... -
From the Fatherland with Love by Ryu Murakami 9781908968494
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.87An ambitious, epic dystopian novel - part political thriller and part satire. From the Fatherland, with Love is set in an alternative, dystopian present in which the dollar has collapsed and... -
Popular Hits of the Showa Era: A Novel by Ryu Murakami
Booksplease Price: £14.67In his most irreverent novel yet, Ryu Murakami creates a rivalry of epic proportions between six aimless youths and six tough-as-nails women who battle for control of a Tokyo neighborhood. At the... -
In The Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami 9780747578888 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £5.10It's just before New Year, and Frank, an overweight American tourist, has hired Kenji to take him on a guided tour of Tokyo's nightlife. But, Frank's behaviour is so odd that Kenji begins to... -
Vanishing World Sayaka Murata 9781803511177
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.99"Normality is the creepiest madness there is..." In our near-future world, children are solely conceived by artificial insemination. Even sex between married couples is viewed as taboo. Amane's... -
Hollow Inside Asako Otani 9781805680017
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Hirai is in a rut. Nearing 40, disillusioned by dating and drifting through her office job, she's starting to feel like she might just disappear. When she agrees to move in with her older colleague,... -
Revenge Yoko Ogawa 9781529949100
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MEMORY POLICE'A conspicuously gifted writer...To read Ogawa is to enter a dreamlike state tinged with a nightmare, and her stories continue to haunt. She possesses an... -
Autofiction by Hitomi Kanehara
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Rin is flying back from her honeymoon. She's madly in love with her husband, Shin, and the future looks rosy. Then Shin disappears to the bathroom while he thinks Rin is sleeping and she starts to... -
Hotel Iris by Yoko Ogawa
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49In a crumbling, seaside hotel on the coast of Japan, quiet, seventeen-year-old Mari works the front desk as her mother fusses over the off-season customers. When, one night, they are forced to eject... -
Hi! Konnichiwa by Yayoi Kusama
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £14.68Hi, Konnichiwa is a substantial, brilliant little book that brings together Kusama's vivid imagery throughout the various phases of her work during the course of her long life. Here are her... -
Self-Portraits: Stories by Osamu Dazai 9780811232265
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.10"Art dies the moment it acquires authority." So said Japan's quintessential rebel writer Osamu Dazai, who, disgusted with the hypocrisy of every kind of establishment, from the nation's obsolete... -
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'Exhilaratingly weird and funny... Unsettling and totally unpredictable - my copy is now heavily underlined' Sally Rooney THE UNEXPECTED INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Meet Keiko. She's 36 years old,... -
Convenience Store Woman Sayaka Murata 9781803510217
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'A gem of a book. Quirky, deadpan, poignant and quietly profound' Ruth Ozeki The unexpected international bestseller. Meet Keiko. She's 36 years old, has never had a boyfriend, and she's been... -
No One Knows by Osamu Dazai 9780811239332
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.10No one really understands how we suffer. One day, when we're adults, we may come to recall this suffering, this misery, as silly and laughable, but how are we to get through the long, hateful period... -
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49He is a brilliant maths professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury seventeen years ago, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. She is a sensitive but... -
Early Light Osamu Dazai 9780811231985
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.30Early Light offers three very different aspects of Osamu Dazai's genius: the title story relates his misadventures as a drinker and a family man in the terrible fire bombings of Tokyo at the end of... -
Vanishing World Sayaka Murata 9781803511191
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.81Amane is ten years old when she discovers she's not like everyone else. Her school friends were all conceived the normal way, by artificial insemination, and raised in the normal way, by parents in... -
The Diving Pool by Yoko Ogawa 9781529955712
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'Your body falling through space touches the deepest part of me'A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster-brother as she watches him leap from a high diving board into a pool - sparking an... -
Mina's Matchbox by Yoko Ogawa 9781529933536
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49On sleepless nights, I open the matchbox and reread the story of the girl who gathered shooting stars.'Beguiling' New YorkerAfter the death of her father, twelve-year-old Tomoko is sent to live for a... -
Mina's Matchbox: A tale of friendship and family secrets in 1970s Japan from the International Booker Prize nominated author Yoko Ogawa 9781787302761
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54On sleepless nights, I open the matchbox and reread the story of the girl who gathered shooting stars.After the death of her father, twelve-year-old Tomoko is sent to live for a year with her uncle... -
Mina's Matchbox: A tale of friendship and family secrets in 1970s Japan from the International Booker Prize nominated author Yoko Ogawa 9781787302778
Booksplease Price: £12.04On sleepless nights, I open the matchbox and reread the story of the girl who gathered shooting stars.After the death of her father, twelve-year-old Tomoko is sent to live for a year with her uncle... -
Terminal Boredom: Stories by Izumi Suzuki
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.51On a planet where men are contained in ghettoised isolation, women enjoy the fruits of a queer matriarchal utopia -- until a boy escapes and a young woman's perception of the world is violently...