London. Abacus. 2016. Originally published in Japanese as Byakuyako. 539pp, paperback. A twenty-year-old murder A chain of unsolvable mysteries Can one detective solve this epic riddle? When a man is found murdered in an abandoned building in Osaka in 1973, unflappable detective Sasagaki is assigned to the case. He begins..... More
Tokyo. Tuttle Publishing. 2019. 25 black and white woodblock prints, 512pp, paperback. Modern Japanese Short Stories is a remarkable collection of Japanese stories from the pioneers of contemporary Japanese literature. This volume's twenty-five stories, by as many authors, display a wide range of style and subject matter - offering a...... More
London. Vintage Publishing, 2013. Complete trilogy, translated by Jay Rubin and Philip Gabriel, 1318pp, paperback. The year is 1Q84. This is the real world, there is no doubt about that. But in this world, there are two moons in the sky. In this world, the fates of two people, Tengo..... More
London. Vintage Books. 2005. New Edition. Translated by Philip Gabriel. 505pp, paperback. 'Kafka on the Shore' follows the fortunes of two remarkable characters. Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy. The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from..... More
London. Vintage Publishing. 2019. 681pp, translated by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen, paperback. 'Beguiling... Murakami is brilliant at folding the humdrum alongside the supernatural; finding the magic that's nested in life's quotidian details' Guardian When a thirty-something portrait painter is abandoned by his wife, he holes up in the mountain..... More
United States. University of Hawaii Press. 2010. Black and white illustrations, viii + 165 pages, index, paperback. Pierre Loti's novel "Madame Chrysantheme" (1888) enjoyed great popularity during the author's lifetime, served as a source of Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly, and remains in print to this day as a classic in..... More
Japan: Tuttle Publishing, 2018. 223pp, paperback. The most famous work of Japanese literature and the world's first novel written a thousand years ago and one of the enduring classics of world literature. Written centuries before the time of Shakespeare and even Chaucer, The Tale of Genji marks the birth of..... More
