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  • Sympathy Tower Tokyo

    A Novel

    by Rie Qudan ...
    Translated by Jesse Kirkwood ...
    “Provocative…Masterfully subtle.” —The New York Times“An architectural feat in itself.” —Financial TimesThe award-winning, bestselling Japanese phenomenon: a speculative, prophetic novel following a young and brilliant celebrity architect in Tokyo who takes on her most controversial project yet—perfect for readers of Klara and the Sun and Chain-Gang All-Stars.Welcome to the Japan ... ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Schoolgirl

    by Rie Qudan ...
    Translated by Haydn Trowell ...
    In Schoolgirl, a wealthy housewife, dogged by ennui, struggles to connect with her teenage daughter, who turns to YouTube to vent her frustration with the climate crisis and muse about her day-to-day life in Tōkyō. Through the fog of generational tension and unresolved ethics, mother and daughter find a shared connection in Osamu Dazai’s 1939 novella Schoolgirl.In Bad Music, a music teacher named ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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    Sympathy Tower Tokyo

    A Novel

    by Rie Qudan ...
    Narrated by Hanako Footman ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 4 min

    “Provocative…Masterfully subtle.” —The New York Times“An architectural feat in itself.” —Financial TimesThe award-winning, bestselling Japanese phenomenon: a speculative, prophetic novel following a young and brilliant celebrity architect in Tokyo who takes on her most controversial project yet—perfect for readers of Klara and the Sun and Chain-Gang All-Stars.Welcome to the Japan ... ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • When the Museum Is Closed

    A Novel

    by Emi Yagi ...
    Translated by Yuki Tejima ...
    A quirky, joyful, feel-good love story about a lonely museum worker who falls in love with a statue of Venus, from the author of international bestseller Diary of a VoidRika Horauchi’s new part-time job is to converse with a statue of Venus—in Latin—every Monday, when the museum is closed.Initially reluctant, Rika starts to enjoy her strange new job. Recommended by her old university professor for ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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    The Scrapbook

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    by Heather Clark ...
    Narrated by Cassandra Campbell, Daniel Henning, Philippe Klaus, Mark Sanderlin ...

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    **From the award-winning author of Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, a stunning debut novel: the story of an intense first love haunted by history and family memory, inspired by the startling WWII scrapbook of Clark’s own grandfather, hidden in an attic until after his death“An elegant, unsettling novel about the burden of history and the illusions of love.” —Sana Krasikov ... Read more

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    Wreckers

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    by Simon Park ...
    Narrated by Esh Alladi ...

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    Voices of the Fallen Heroes

    And Other Stories

    by Yukio Mishima ...
    Narrated by Brian Nishii ...
    Series series Vintage International

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    A new selection of Yukio Mishima (author of Spring Snow and The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea) short stories from the 1960s—his final decade—Voices of the Fallen Heroes offers a unique glimpse into the mind of one of Japan’s greatest writers.In the title story, "Voices of the Fallen Heroes," a séance brings forth the spirits of young officers in the Imperial Army and the kamikaze pilots ... Read more

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  • Archipelago of the Sun

    by Yoko Tawada ...
    Translated by Margaret Mitsutani ...
    In the concluding volume of her enormously popular, mind-expanding, and cheerfully dystopian trilogy, Yoko Tawada’s intrepid young band of friends strike out in search of the lost Land of SushiThe Archipelago of the Sun finds Hiruko still searching for her lost country, traveling around the Baltic on a mail boat. With her are Knut, a Danish linguist; Akash, an Indian in the process of moving to ... Read more

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