The Book of Tokyo collects 10 stories by some of Japan’s most exciting contemporary short story writers. Together, the stories form a kind of literary map of the city’s ever-changing districts through
Taking on a subject that is still largely avoided in Japan, this powerful thriller explores the threat?posed by?an emperor, even in a ceremonial role, to a democratic government.?Set in a fictional?is
By turns teasing and terrifying, laconic and luminous, the stories in this anthology are drawn from sources as diverse as Borges, Nabokov, Garcia-Marquez, and traditional Japanese folklore, and yet th
"Me is an exquisitely fashioned novel. It begins with a now-routine form of larceny, then quickly moves into a murky twilight zone, a cul-de-sac, arriving at the enigmatic edge of the world in which w
