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Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata; Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator)
Category: Fiction
Thirty-six-year-old Tokyo resident Keiko Furukara has never fit in--neither in her family, nor in school--but when at the age of eighteen she begins working at the Hiiromachi branch of national convenience store chain Smile Mart, she realizes instantly that she has found her purpose in life. Delighted t ...Show more
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata; Ginny Tapley Takemori
Category: Fiction
The surprise hit of the summer and winner of Japan's prestigious Akutagawa Prize, Convenience Store Woman is the incomparable story of Keiko Furukura, a thirty-six-year-old Tokyo resident who has been working at the Hiiromachi "Smile Mart" for the past eighteen years. Keiko has never fit in, neither in ...Show more
From the Fatherland with Love by Ryu Murakami; Ralph F. McCarthy; Charles De Wolf; Ginny Tapley Takemori
Category: Cult Fiction
From the Fatherland, with Love is set in an alternative, dystopian present in which the dollar has collapsed and Japan’s economy has fallen along with it. The North Korean government, sensing an opportunity, sends a fleet of 'rebels’ in the first land invasion that Japan has ever faced. Japan can’t cope ...Show more
Life Ceremony - Stories by Sayaka Murata; Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator)
Category: Fiction
The long-awaited first short story-collection by the author of the cult sensation Convenience Store Woman, tales of weird love, heartfelt friendships, and the unsettling nature of human existence With Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata is back with her first collection of short stories ever t ...Show more
The Cake Tree in the Ruins by Akiyuki Nosaka; Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection
Intensely moving stories that tell of the absurd violence of war, and tenderly depict the animals and children caught in its vortex. In 1945, Akiyuki Nosaka watched the Allied firebombing of Kobe kill his adoptive parents, and then witnessed his sister starving to death. The shocking and blisteringly m ...Show more
The Secret of the Blue Glass by Tomiko Inui; Ginny Tapley Takemori
Category: Junior Fiction
On the first floor of the big house of the Moriyama family, is a small library. There, on the shelves next to the old books, live the Little People, a tiny family who were once brought from England to Japan by a beloved nanny. Since then, each generation of Moriyama-family children has inherited the res ...Show more
The Whale That Fell in Love with a Submarine by Ginny Takemori
Category: Middle Readers | Series: Pushkin Children's Collection
Striking and eloquent stories that tell of the absurd violence of war, and tenderly depict the animals and children caught in its vortex A whale falls in love with a military submarine, and dies courting her; a mother caught in a fire following a bombing gives all her body's water to save her son, and h ...Show more
Things Remembered and Things Forgotten by Kyoko Nakajima (Ginny Takemori (Translator); Ian MacDonald (Translator))
Category: Fiction
Prize-winning Japanese author offers stories haunted by history.
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