The life of seventeen-year-old Marie, an employee of the Iris Hotel, is extremely colorless and monotonous. But one night an unusual guest, a mysterious man ...

"Highly original. Infinitely charming. And ever so touching." – Paul AusterA publishing phenomenon in Japan and a heartwarming story that will change the ...

Sinister forces draw together a cast of desperate characters in this eerie and absorbing novel from Yoko Ogawa.An aspiring writer moves into a new apartme...

The mathematics professor lives in the world of numbers. After the injury, his brain only retains memories for eighty minutes; he remembers no dates, no name...

A collection of storiesThe first major English translation of one of contemporary Japan's bestselling and most celebrated authorsFrom Akutagawa Prize – wi...

He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar problem--ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory.<...

A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor.On an unnamed island of...

...Now in Japan a real renaissance of “female” culture, which has been suppressed for so long, is unfolding. Literature, as the most sensitive of the arts, w...

Inside our memories, we are all absolutely free. This novel, written back in 1994, is relevant at all times. It is about the inevitability of loss and the su...