Books for Japanese Culture Day

A major new collection of Japanese short stories, many appearing in English for the first time, with an introduction by Haruki Murakami.

A woman turns herself into a forest after long being co-opted to serve as the subject of her husband’s novels—this surrealist fable challenges traditional gender attitudes and exploitation in the literary world.

An immersive journey through the culture and cuisine of one Japanese town, its forest, and its watershed—where ducks are hunted by net, saké is brewed from the purest mountain water, and charcoal is fired in stone kilns—by an American writer and food stylist who spent years working alongside artisans.

After three decades in Japan, Pico Iyer knows the country like few others. In A Beginner’s Guide to Japan, he draws on his years of experience—his travels, conversations, readings, and reflections—to illuminate his adopted home like never before.

The first novel from Izumi Suzuki to be published in English: a candid, intimate exploration of passion, music and transgression.