Women in translation

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Lonely Castle in the Mirror

Mizuki Tsujimura

A #1 Japanese bestseller and winner of the influential Japan booksellers’ award. Convenience Store Woman with a fantasy twist, exploring emotional and anxiety issues in modern-day Japan.

$43.99

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Lullaby

Leila Slimani

The baby is dead. It took only a few seconds.   

$22.99

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Hour of the Star

Clarice Lispector

Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macabéa loves movies, Coca-Cola and her philandering rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be…

$22.99

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The Nakano Thrift Shop

Hiromi Kawakami

A beguiling story of love found amid odds and ends, The Nakano Thrift Shop is a heart-warming and utterly charming novel from one of Japan’s most celebrated contemporary novelists. 

$22.99

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Flights

Olga Tokarczuk

A literary and imaginative book that explores subjects such as anatomy and psychology through narratives and reflections on travel and the body, and life and death.

$32.99

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Celestial Bodies

Jokha Alharthi

Celestial Bodies is a coiled spring of a novel, telling of Oman’s coming-of-age through the prism of one family’s losses and loves.

$24.99

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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Olga Tokarczuk

A subversive, entertaining noir novel from the winner of the 2018 Man Booker Prize.

$29.99

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Complete Stories

Clarice Lispector

Features stories ranging from teenagers coming into awareness of their sexual and artistic powers to humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies to old people who don’t know…

$32.99

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Convenience Store Woman

Sayaka Murata

The surprise smash hit - Japan’s answer to Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine.

$22.99

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