In a first English-language translation of an award-winning work in Japan, a clever mathematics teacher orchestrates a cover-up after a confrontation between a violent man and his terror-stricken ex-wife results in the man's accidental death.
Villain by Shuichi Yoshida
Follows a southern Japanese community's concerned observations of a young construction worker who is charged with murdering an insurance saleswoman.
Kokoro by Soseki Natsume
Haunted by tragic secrets, Sensei slowly opens up to his young disciple, confessing indiscretions from his own student days that have left him reeling with guilt.
Favorites: a novel by Mary Yukari Waters
Feeling like an outsider while visiting her ancestral family in Kyoto, fourteen-year-old Japanese American Sarah Rexford learns a painful secret about how her grandmother was forced to give up a daughter to another branch of the family.
Supermarket by Satoshi Azuchi
After he resigns from his elite banking job to help a cousin manage a supermarket in post-World War II Japan, Kojima is challenged by a woman from his childhood to consider whether his business goals are worth his efforts.
Shot by Both Sides by Meisei Goto
Standing on a Tokyo bridge waiting for a friend, Akaki, a middle-aged Japanese man, indulges in reminiscences that recall his arrival in Tokyo twenty years earlier, his childhood in northern Korea under Japanese rule, and the impact of the trauma of war.
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