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Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint (novel), Vol. 1
69,000 TNDIF YOU ARE READING THIS, YOU WILL SURVIVE. Kill each other within the time limit or die. It’s just another evening commute on the train, until the passengers are given an order they can’t disobey. Utter chaos ensues, but ordinary office worker Dokja Kim only feels an unsettling calm. He knows exactly how this will play out! The subway car, the passengers’ reactions, even the bizarre creature that suddenly appears to oversee this sadistic scenario…everything is straight out of his favorite story, an online novel so obscure he is its sole reader. And as the only one who knows where the plot is headed, Dokja must use his knowledge to survive the oncoming apocalypse!
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One Hundred Flowers
59,000 TND‘A tender meditation on memory, familial bonds, and the evanescence of every day moments … a profoundly affecting read’ – Storizen Magazine’A believable slice-of-life window into human nature that resonates on multiple levels’ – The Japan TimesFROM THE AUTHOR OF THE JAPANESE BESTSELLER IF CATS DISAPPEARED FROM THE WORLD WHICH HAS SOLD OVER TWO MILLION COPIESThe fragrance of a single stem in a vase. The shimmering reflection of fireworks in a lake.
The quiet of a bookshop as evening falls. The feeling of opening a brand-new diary and beginning to write … Moments of beauty endure.
But what happens when you begin to forget?Yuriko leads a quiet, orderly life as a piano teacher. It’s New Year’s Eve and her grown-up son Izumi comes to visit. Yuriko makes him his favourite meal: omelette and hayashi rice.
Together, they look like a normal family. But Yuriko has a secret. Many years earlier, when Izumi was a boy, Yuriko suddenly disappeared for an entire year.
She returned, but the lost year was never discussed. Now as Yuriko begins to lose her memory, Izumi is forced to race against time as he seeks the truth behind this long-buried mystery. Will he learn to understand the woman his mother once was, before it is too late? And is he ready to become a father himself?One Hundred Flowers is a story about the preciousness of every moment, the beauty and pain of family love, and the healing power of letting go.
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One Piece: Ace’s Story, Vol. 1
55,000 TNDAdventure on the high seas continue in these stories featuring the characters of One Piece!Get the backstory on Luffy’s brother Ace! This volume contains the origin story of Luffy’s adopted brother Ace, and tales of his thrilling quest for the legendary One Piece treasure. Washed up on the shores of a deserted island at the edge of the East Blue Sea, two men from different backgrounds unite in their shared thirst for adventure. One of them, Portgaz D.
Ace, will follow in his infamous father’s footsteps as the fearless captain of a pirate crew. The other, Masked Deuce, becomes the reluctant first member of Ace’s Spade Pirates. Survival is not enough for these seafaring buccaneers, as together they seek treasure, excitement, and a route to the New World. -
One Piece: Ace’s Story, Vol. 2
55,000 TNDThe pirating adventures continue in this second collection of short stories featuring the women of One Piece! All hail the heroines! The girls of One Piece take the helm in this collection of prose short stories. After an undersea tangle with mermaids and fish-men, Portgaz D. Ace leads his Spade Pirates crew to the New World, a place where pirate masters and rookies battle for territory and treasure.
As he flees memories of his secret past, Ace seeks pirating infamy so powerful it will change the world order. To achieve this goal, he sets his sights on one of the strongest fleets in the ocean—the Whitebeard Pirates, ruled over by dread pirate Whitebeard, the strongest man in the world! -
One Piece: Shokugeki no Sanji
55,000 TNDThe Food Wars! creative team cooks up a special One Piece one-shot! See what Straw Hats chef Sanji dishes up in his battle to win over the bellies and hearts of all he feeds, man or woman, friend or foe. This one-shot spinoff rolls all six original story chapters into one collection, all concocted and served up to you by the creators of Food Wars! and One Piece!See what Straw Hat chef Sanji dishes up in his battle to win over the bellies and hearts of all he feeds, man or woman, friend or foe. This one-shot spinoff rolls all six original story chapters into one collection, concocted and served up to you by the creators of Food Wars!
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Out
49,000 TNDYou can hide a body. You can’t bury the truth. In a Tokyo factory, four women work the night shift to keep their lives afloat.
When one of them kills her abusive husband, the others help hide the body – and step into a world of extortion, deceit and revenge. Out is a masterclass in tension and realism. Kirino peels back the veneer of normal life to reveal the rage, loyalty and survival instincts that lie beneath.
Gripping, brutal and profoundly human, this is a thriller that stares unflinchingly into darkness. ‘A shockingly intense read’ Daily Telegraph‘Out is a potent cocktail of urban blight, perverse feminism and vigilante justice’ New York Times Book Review
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Pachinko
59,000 TNDYeongdo, Korea 1911. In a small fishing village on the banks of the East Sea, a club-footed, cleft-lipped man marries a fifteen-year-old girl. The couple have one child, their beloved daughter Sunja.
When Sunja falls pregnant by a married yakuza, the family face ruin. But then Isak, a Christian minister, offers her a chance of salvation: a new life in Japan as his wife. Following a man she barely knows to a hostile country in which she has no friends, no home, and whose language she cannot speak, Sunja’s salvation is just the beginning of her story.
Through eight decades and four generations, Pachinko is an epic tale of family, identity, love, death and survival.
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Piercing
49,000 TNDEvery night, Kawashima Masayuki creeps from his bed and watches over his baby girl’s crib while his wife sleeps. But this is no ordinary domestic scene. He has an ice pick in his hand, and a barely controllable desire to use it.
Deciding to confront his demons, Kawashima sets into motion a chain of events seeming to lead inexorably to murder.
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Please Look After Mother
69,000 TNDWINNER OF THE MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZE’An authentic, moving story that brings to vivid life the deep family connections that lie at the core of Korean culture’Gary Shteyngart’Kyung-Sook Shin’s tale… has hit a nerve’Guardian’A raw tribute to the mysteries of motherhood’New York Times’The most moving and accomplished, and often startling, novel’Wall Street JournalWhen sixty-nine-year-old So-nyo is separated from her husband among the crowds of the Seoul subway station, her family begins a desperate search to find her. Yet as long-held secrets and private sorrows begin to reveal themselves, they are forced to wonder: how well did they actually know the woman they called Mother?Told through the piercing voices and urgent perspectives of a daughter, son, husband, and mother, PLEASE LOOK AFTER MOTHER is at once an authentic picture of contemporary life in Korea and a universal story of family love.
With an introduction by Banana YoshimotoA W&N Essential
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Rental Person Who Does Nothing : A Memoir
59,000 TNDThe true life adventures of Shoji Morimoto, who launched a business in which he rents himself out to do nothing in Japan. ‘Distinctively Japanese musings on meaning and connection’ – ObserverNeed a rental person who does nothing? Shoji Morimoto provides a fascinating service to the lonely and socially anxious. After an old boss told him that he contributed nothing and that it made no difference whether he showed up to work or not, he wondered if a person who ‘does nothing’ could still have a place in the world.
With a tweet, his Rental Person service was born. – Have a deep secret you desperately need to reveal, so deep that you can’t tell a friend or family member?- Have you spent a long time home alone, and want to know what it’s like to have somebody with you at your apartment?- Or for someone to simply think of you on a stressful day? Or wave to you as you leave the train station on a long journey?Morimoto is dependable, non-judgmental and committed to remaining a stranger throughout each request, and his encounters are revelatory about both Japanese society and human psychology. In Rental Person Who Does Nothing, Morimoto chronicles his extraordinary experiences in his unique line of work and reflects on how we consider relationships, jobs and family in our search for meaningful connection and purpose in life.
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Return to the DallerGut Dream Department Store
69,000 TNDShe is now an official employee of the dream industry! She can finally take the express commuter train to the Company District, where all the dream production companies are located and discover how all raw dream materials and testing equipment are produced. But the Company District is not quite what she expected, it hides the darker underbelly of the magical industry that Penny thought she was a part of. Penny discovers the Civil Complaint Center, full of people filing complaints about their dreams.
She also learns about the regular customers who have stopped coming to the store. As she gets to the bottom of each complaint, she begins to expand her horizons, transforming from just selling dreams to understanding what lies in the hearts of their lost regulars. Return to the DallerGut Dream Department Store delves deeper into the dream industry and its customers.
Why do some of them buy a dream and never return? Will Penny and her colleagues be able to bring their regulars back?
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Roadkill
79,000 TNDFrom a prize-winning new voice in Korean fiction, with roots in feminist SFF, these exhilarating stories will transport you to strange new worlds, celebrating young women striving for their independence and self-expression’Radically brilliant… made me want to spark trouble and overthrow the system’ JANE FLETT’Plenty to keep you up at night, I loved the eerie beauty of the worlds Amil creates’ NAOMI ISHIGURO’Thrilling and unsettling… I loved this’ MEGAN BRADBURYIn a near future where women are an endangered minority, two young friends try to break free from a facility designed for those few who can still give birth.
Every year in a secluded seaside village, a maiden is sacrificed to a divine sea serpent. Elsewhere, the last female shaman of an indigenous tribe tells her stories to a visiting research team. And in South Korea’s Alps Grand Park, the residents exist in an exclusive world dominated by giant air purifier towers as others are left to live in the shade.
The women in these stories find themselves trapped – by circumstance, society or tradition – as they fight for a means of escape. This sweeping and subversive collection celebrates their strength and their courage, their desire for independence and self-expression. Translated by Archana Madhavan