Vintage Classics Japanese Series
Selected by the Bookshop
Nine masterpieces of Japanese fiction in gorgeous new gift editions from Vintage
Recommended by Saff
‘A tale of misogyny, precarious work, and loneliness. I picked this up as a holiday read last year and was not disappointed. It combines deft political commentary with a snappy plot and complex characters who, at times, make you want to shout at the page. The novel begins with a woman on the edge; what follows is a story gruesome, poignant, and unerringly propulsive.’
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Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020, an enthralling Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance from one of Japan's greatest writers.'Beautiful... Haunting' Sunday Times'A dreamlike story of dystopia' Jia…
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'This is one of those books written in such lucid, unpretentious language that reading it is like looking into a deep pool of clear water...Dive into Yoko Ogawa's world and you find yourself tugged by forces more felt than seen' New York…
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'Mishima's greatest novel, and one of the greatest of the past century' The TimesA band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they…
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Read the haunting love story that turned Murakami into a literary superstar. …
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Enter the haunted world of Japan in this spine-tingling collection of ghostly tales, beautifully bound in a luxurious special edition. From goblin-infested caves and haunted tombs to vengeful spirits and strange, sinister happenings,…
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Enter the surreal and enchanting world of Haruki MurakamiToru Okada's cat has disappeared. His wife is growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been receiving. As this…
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