Cosy translated fiction

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How Do You Live?

Genzaburo Yoshino, Bruno Navasky (trans.)

The beloved multi-million copy bestselling Japanese classic about finding one's place in the world

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Before the Coffee Gets Cold

Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Geoffrey Trousselot (trans.)

A beautiful, moving story about a small Japanese cafe that offers its visitors the chance to travel back in time, to find an answer to the question: what would you…

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What You Are Looking for is in the Library

Michiko Aoyama, Alison Watts (trans.)

At once heart-rending and heartwarming, this bestselling shortlistee of the Japan Booksellers' Prize is a celebraton of community libraries and the life-changing power of book recommendation.

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Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

Satoshi Yagisawa, Eric Ozawa (trans.)

The moving international sensation about new beginnings, human connection, and the joy of reading.

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A Cat, A Man, And Two Women

Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

The novella and two short stories in this lucid translation reveal Tanizaki at both his best and his most bizarre

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The Kamogawa Food Detectives

Hisashi Kashiwai, Jesse Kirkwood (trans.)

Tender, heartwarming and deeply comforting, The Kamogawa Food Detectives is the start of a beautiful and uplifting series that celebrates the joy of delicious food and good company.

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The Goodbye Cat

Hiro Arikawa

Seven uplifting tales of warm, wise and sarcastic cats set in modern Japan through the changing seasons.

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She And Her Cat

Makoto Shinkai

This is the story of Miyu, a woman who lives alone with her cat, Chobi. As Miyu navigates the world of adulthood, she discovers both the freedom and loneliness that…

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I am a Cat

Soseki Natsume

Written over the course of 1904-6, Soseki’s comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat satirizes the follies of upper-middle-class Japanese society during the Meiji era. With acerbic wit and sardonic perspective…

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Before Your Memory Fades

Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Geoffrey Trousselot (trans.)

The third novel from the author of the phenomenon Before the Coffee Gets Cold: tales from a little cafe in Hakodate, Cafe Donna Donna, where customers may travel back in…

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Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

Hwang Bo-reum, Shanna Tan (trans.)

A heart-warming story about finding comfort and acceptance in your life and the healing power of books.

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She and her Cat

Makoto Shinkai & Naruki Nagakawa, Ginny Tapley Takemori (trans.)

This is the story of Miyu, a woman who lives alone with her cat, Chobi. As Miyu navigates the world of adulthood, she discovers both the freedom and loneliness that…

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Before We Say Goodbye

Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Geoffrey Trousselot (trans.)

The fourth novel in the sensational 'Before the Coffee Gets Cold' series featuring cafe regulars, with the same time-travelling offer, back in the Tokyo cafe - if customers follow the…

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