Di balik pesona jalanan yang teratur dan penduduk yang tertib, kota pelabuhan Kobe sesungguhnya tidak baik-baik saja. Bisnis mengalir segencar angin musim semi Haru-ichiban bagi Mami Suzuki, pegawai hotel pada siang hari, detektif swasta pada malam hari. Siapakah yang berani mencuri dari seorang pedagang mutiara terbesar di Jepang? Di manakah keberadaan seorang koki sushi ternama dan mengapa…
A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor. On an unnamed island, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses. . . . Most of the inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few able to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are committed t…
Tucked away on the fifth floor of an old building at the end of a narrow alley in Kyoto, the Nakagyō Kokoro Clinic for the Soul can be found only by people who are struggling in their lives and who genuinely need help. The mysterious clinic offers a unique treatment to those who find their way there: it prescribes cats as medication. Pa-tients are often puzzled by this unconventional prescript…
The Art of the Japanese Garden is the only historical overview of Japanese gardens that covers Japanese gardening culture in one beautiful book. Japanese gardens are rooted in two traditions: an indigenous prehistoric tradition in which patches of graveled forest or pebbled beach were dedicated to nature spirits, and a tradition from China and Korea that included elements such as ponds, stre…
An international bestseller with over half a million copies sold between Japan and South Korea, The Convenience Store by The Sea tells the delightfully quirky and heartfelt stories of the store’s customers and employees, offering us all a unique recipe for a good, fulfilling life.
By the author of Lonely Castle in the Mirror and Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon