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The Emissary by Yoko Tawada
SciFier: €12.34Japan, after suffering from a massive irreparable disaster, cuts itself off from the world. Children are so weak they can barely stand or walk: the only people with any get-go are the elderly. Mumei... -
The Bridegroom Was a Dog by Yoko Tawada
RRP: €10.70SciFier: €9.03The Bridegroom Was a Dog is perhaps the Japanese-German writer Yoko Tawada's most famous story. Its initial publication in 1998 garnered admiration from The New Yorker, who praised it as,... -
Three Streets by Yoko Tawada
RRP: €15.46SciFier: €15.45The always astonishing Yoko Tawada here takes a walk on the supernatural side of the street. In "Kollwitzstrasse," as the narrator muses on former East Berlin's new bourgeois health food stores, so... -
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada 9781803513201
RRP: €15.46SciFier: €11.17In this concluding volume, intrepid Hiruko and her band of friends embark on a sea voyage in search of Hiruko's lost island homeland - the Land of Sushi. The boat carrying the companions strikes east... -
Suggested in the Stars Yoko Tawada 9781803510996
RRP: €15.46SciFier: €11.31Hiruko, from the now vanished archipelago 'somewhere between China and Polynesia', and her companions have searched in vain for someone who speaks her native language. They finally track down a sushi... -
The Bridegroom Was a Dog Yoko Tawada 9780811239967
RRP: €21.36SciFier: €14.86Masterfully turning the rules of folklore and fable on their head, The Bridegroom Was a Dog is a disarming and unforgettable modern classic. Its initial publication in 1998 garnered admiration from... -
The Last Children of Tokyo by Yoko Tawada
RRP: €11.89SciFier: €9.02Yoshiro thinks he might never die. A hundred years old and counting, he is one of Japan's many 'old-elderly'; men and women who remember a time before the air and the sea were poisoned, before... -
Suggested in the Stars Yoko Tawada 9781803511016
RRP: €11.89SciFier: €9.02Hiruko, from the now vanished archipelago 'somewhere between China and Polynesia', and her band of friends have searched in vain for someone who speaks her native language. They finally track down... -
Scattered All Over the Earth Yoko Tawada 9781783789122
RRP: €11.89SciFier: €9.02*From the author of The Last Children of Tokyo* A mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian novel about friendship, difference and what it means to belong, by a National Book Award-winning novelist. ... -
The Fox and Dr. Shimamura by Christine Wunnicke (New Directions)
SciFier: €12.73Winner of the 2020 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translation Prize The Fox and Dr. Shimamura toothsomely encompasses East and West, memory and reality, fox-possession myths, and psychiatric mythmaking. As an... -
The Hole by Hiroko Oyamada
RRP: €11.89SciFier: €9.02When Asa's husband is offered a new job away from the city, the couple end up relocating. And since his new office is very close to his family's home, it makes sense to move in next door to his... -
The Factory Hiroko Oyamada 9781803510590
RRP: €11.89SciFier: €9.02Beyond the town, there is the factory. Beyond the factory, there is nothing. Within the sprawling industrial complex, three employees are assigned to different departments. There, each must focus... -
The Factory Hiroko Oyamada 9781803510538
RRP: €15.46SciFier: €11.31From the award-winning author of Weasels in the Attic, a modern fable about the world of work Beyond the town, there is the factory. Beyond the factory, there is nothing. Within the sprawling... -
The Place of Shells: 'An extraordinary, beautiful novel' Sarah Bernstein, Booker-shortlisted author of Study for Obedience Mai Ishizawa 9781399750387
RRP: €20.22SciFier: €12.16WINNER OF THE AKUTAGAWA PRIZE'This attempt to imprint upon humanity the experiences of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in a way that only a novel can achieve deserves to be highly... -
The Midnight Timetable by Bora Chung
RRP: €23.80SciFier: €12.45In a labyrinthine research facility where those who open the wrong door might find it's disappeared behind them, or that the echoing footsteps they're running from are their own, an unnamed... -
The Place of Shells: 'An extraordinary, beautiful novel' Sarah Bernstein, Booker-shortlisted author of Study for Obedience Mai Ishizawa 9781399750394
SciFier: €15.35WINNER OF THE AKUTAGAWA PRIZE'A hypnotic dissection of memory, trauma and belonging'New Statesman'This attempt to imprint upon humanity the experiences of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in a... -
The Midnight Timetable Bora Chung 9780349705187
RRP: €19.03SciFier: €12.72Equal parts bone-chilling, wryly funny and deeply political, The Midnight Timetable is a masterful work of literary horror from one of our time's greatest imaginations.'I inhaled Bora Chung's book of... -
The Place of Shells by Mai Ishizawa
RRP: €14.27SciFier: €12.13In the summer of 2020, as Europe is beginning to open back up after the first phase of the pandemic, a young Japanese woman based in the German city of Goettingen is working on a PhD about the...