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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
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Seven Years of Darkness
59,000 TND‘The queen of crime . . .
You-Jeong Jeong is shaking up the world of suspense’ Glamour’You-Jeong Jeong is a certified international phenomenon . . .
one among the best at writing psychological suspense’ Los Angeles Times A young girl is found dead in Seryong Lake, a reservoir in a remote South Korean village. The police immediately begin their investigation. At the same time, three men – Yongje, the girl’s father, and two security guards at the nearby dam, each of whom has something to hide about the night of her death – find themselves in an elaborate game of cat and mouse as they race to uncover what happened to her, without revealing their own closely guarded secrets.
When a final showdown at the dam results in a mass tragedy, one of the guards is convicted of murder and sent to prison. For seven years, his son, Sowon, lives in the shadow of his father’s shocking and inexplicable crime. When Sowon receives a package that promises to reveal at last what really happened at Seryong Lake, he must confront a present danger he never knew existed.
Dark, disturbing, and full of twists and turns, Seven Years of Darkness is the riveting new novel from the internationally celebrated author of The Good Son. ‘South Korea’s preeminent author of psychological thrillers’ Entertainment Weekly’Rightly compared to Stephen King’ Die Zeit (Germany)
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Sixty-Nine
69,000 TNDIn a small, inconsequential city in Japan, all that matters to 17-year-old Kensuke Yazaki and his friends is girls, rock music and, to a much lesser extent, school. Told at high speed and with irresistible humour by Kensuke himself, this is the story of their 1969, as they engage in heated conversations about Marxism, Rimbaud, Godard, the Beatles and the Stones, set up a barricade in their school, organise a rock festival and map out a highly successful strategy in girl-winning.
This is a young Japan entirely turned towards the West, pervaded by Western music, where the girls have nicknames pulled from famous British films, but still locked in a fight with the rigid post-war conservatism of the older generation. -
Snow Country
59,000 TNDA tale of wasted love, and beauty, by Japan’s literary masterShimamura is tired of the bustling city. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the west coast of Japan, to meet with a geisha he believes he loves. Beautiful and innocent, Komako is tightly bound by the rules of a rural geisha, and lives a life of servitude and seclusion that is alien to Shimamura.
Snow Country is both delicate and subtle, reflecting in Kawabata’s exact, lyrical writing the unspoken love and understated passion of the young Japanese couple.
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Spring Snow
59,000 TNDTokyo, 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders – rich provincial families, a new and powerful elite. Kiyoaki has been raised among the elegant Ayakura family – members of the waning aristocracy – but he is not one of them.
Coming of age, he is caught up in the tensions between old and new, and his feelings for the exquisite, spirited Satoko. His devoted friend Honda watches from the sidelines. It is only when Satoko is engaged to a royal prince that Kiyoaki realises the magnitude of his passion.
‘An austere love story, probably my favourite of his novels’ David Mitchell, Independent on Sunday ‘[Mishima’s] best work, unnerving as it may be, still casts a spell; and I suspect it will retain its dark radiance’ Guardian