"Japan, 1957. Seventeen-year-old Naoko Nakamura's prearranged marriage to the son of her father's business associate would secure her family's status in their traditional Japanese community, but Naoko has fallen for another man--an American sailor, a gaijin--and to marry him would bring great shame upon her entire family. When it's learned Naoko carries the sailor's child, she's cast out in disgrace and forced to make unimaginable choices with consequences...

The acclaimed debut of Japan’s “master storyteller” (Chicago Tribune).
 
With the publication of Kitchen, the dazzling English-language debut that is still her best-loved book, the literary world realized that Banana Yoshimoto was a young writer of enduring talent whose work has quickly earned a place among the best of contemporary Japanese literature. Kitchen is an...

As she films a 52-part series on wholesome American beef for Japanese television, director Jane Takagi-Little of New York realizes she is doing her viewers a disservice and sabotages the show. Combines exposure of unhealthy production of meat and a cross-cultural view of America.

Tsukiko, thirty-eight, works in an office and lives alone. One night she encounters her now retired former high school teacher "Sensei" in a local bar. Despite the 30 year age difference, their relationship develops and grows into love.

Forbidden love between an American serviceman and an aristocratic Japanese young woman set in post-WW II Japan. This proves to be the source of great pain in an era of racial intolerance.

The first novel with no ending! Those who have read it are all upset, frantically discussing, and arguing, "So who is the woman in the purple dress?" Readers praised "The most read Akutagawa reward in history!" The first work of the triple crowned writer Natsuko Imamura who won the Dazai Osamu Award, Mishima Yukio Award, and Akutagawa Award. The Akutagawa Prize-winning works sold over 100,000 copies. The first round of voting by 9 jury members passed!...

Esta sensación literaria y bestseller internacional presenta con perfecta autenticidad y exquisito lirismo las confesiones de una geisha famosa de Japón. En esta novela entramos a un mundo donde las apariencias son de suma importancia; donde la virginidad de una niña es subastada al mejor postor; donde las mujeres son entrenadas para seducir a los hombres más poderosos; y donde el amor es desdeñado como una mera ilusión. Es una obra de ficción...

"From director Makoto Shinkai comes the novelization of his award-winning 2013 film The Garden of Words, a moody drama about two lonely souls who meet in the garden of Shinjuku during rainy season and help each other "learn to walk again" in life"--