Strange Weather In Tokyo

Kang, Han

From Nobel Prize winner Han Kang comes her first work of nonfiction published in English—a singular collection of writings including her inspiring Nobel Lecture.In this light-filled and multi-faceted book, Han Kang draws together the threads of her work and life, tracing the connections between her interior and exterior worlds through a sequence of essays, poems, photographs, a...

Gigi L. Leung

On a weekend morning, college roommates, Ah Li and Panda, wake up with very different reactions to the night before. They have been chased and tear-gassed in the streets of their city after joining tens of thousands of others to protest a national security law that would effectively spell the end of democracy in Hong Kong. Ah Li couldn't get out of bed, her heart heavy with the...

Lee Onhwa

For readers of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, The Dallergut Dream Department Store, and The Midnight Library, a sweetly magical and uplifting novel about a young woman who inherits an enchanted bakery that spirits visit on their last stop before the afterlife. Twenty-seven-year-old Yeon-hwa has inherited a neighborhood bakery from her grandmother. Curiously, her grandmother's wil...

Jewell, Lisa

Discover the debut novel of the #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell in which the residents of an apartment building confront one another's attractions, distrust, secrets, and lies. Perfect for fans of Dolly Alderton and Jojo Moyes.Welcome to 31 Almanac Road where the walls don't talk, but the people sure do. First, we have Ralph and Smith. Roommates and life-long b...

Xiaolu Guo

"A propulsive powerhouse of a read."--Marie Claire (UK) "Ambitious, brave, and strange."--Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan From the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author, a feminist reimagining of Herman Melville's classic Moby-Dick through the eyes of one inimitable woman and a diverse, swashbuckling crew I must work on a ship as a man . . . I must find freedom on...

Lisa Genova

**National Bestseller** A "riveting page-turner" (Jean Kwok, New York Times bestselling author of Searching for Sylvie Lee) about a young woman diagnosed with bipolar disorder who rejects the stability and approval found in a traditionally "normal" life for a career in stand-up comedy.Maddy Banks is just like any other stressed-out freshman at NYU. Between schoolwork, exams, n...

Kawakami, Hiromi

Una delicada historia sobre deseo y desamor por la gran autora japonesa ganadora de los premios Akutagawa,Ito Sei o Tanizaki que conquistó a miles de lectores con El cielo es azul, la tierra blanca. «Hiromi Kawakami: las cosas sencillas son melancólicas. Bellamente melancólicas, como el sol que derrite la nieve, sin dejar huella de ella». Héctor Abad Faciolince Después de casar...

Kawakami, Hiromi

Included in The New Yorker's Best Books of 2023Stories from a Japanese master of transformative fiction, where reality, myth, and human foibles meet shifting dimensions of gender, biology, and destiny.From the bestselling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo comes this otherworldly collection of eight stories, each a masterpiece of transformation, infused with humor, sex, and th...

Kawakami, Hiromi

«¿Qué será el amor? Las personas tienen derecho a enamorarse de otros, no a que los demás las amen.» Todas han amado a Nishino. Todas han sucumbido, aunque solo sea durante una hora, a ese hombre seductor, imprudente y salvaje como un gato, que se inmiscuía de manera natural en la vida de las mujeres a las que deseaba conquistar. Pero ¿quién era Nishino? Ellas, que guardan en ...

Kawakami, Hiromi

Esta obra extraordinaria, tal vez la mejor novela de amor de los últimos años, resulta difícil de presentar en toda su belleza y profundidad. Preferimos, esta vez, elegir para ello palabras ajenas:«El cielo es azul, la tierra blanca es una de las historias de amor más bellas que he leído en mi vida. No me refiero a uno de esos amores cursis y pretenciosos que proliferan tanto e...

Kawakami, Hiromi

Los ocho relatos que componen este libro, si bien totalmente independientes los unos respecto de los otros, parecen atravesados por el mismo eje, tejidos con el mismo hilo, sutil pero firme en su atadura. Con asombrosa sensibilidad, Kawakami hilvana historias que hablan de enamoramientos, de desengaño, de pasión, de sexo, de amor y del casi inevitable desamor, y dibuja unos per...

Kawakami, Hiromi

Cuando Hitomi empieza a trabajar en la tienda de segunda mano ("Esto no es un anticuario", remarca su propietario), entra en un mundo muy particular. Allí habitan el señor Nakano, un enigmático hombre con varias exmujeres; Masayo, su hermana, una artista que nunca se ha casado, y Takeo, el otro empleado del establecimiento, un chico joven, tímido pero encantador. Cada día, clie...