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The Healing Season of Pottery
2024 || Hardcover || Yeon Somin || Viking
The Granddaughter
2024 || Paperback || Bernhard Schlink || Weidenfeld & Nicholson
Mittens and Pity
2024 || Paperback || Banana Yoshimoto || Faber and Faber
Hard Copy
2024 || Paperback || Fien Veldman || Head of Zeus
Joyful, tender, and strangely relatable . . . With sharp, playful prose, Veldman tells a story in equal parts searing intelligence and madcap sweetness. Simply brilliant.' Jenny Mustard
This is a story of girl meets printer.
A customer service assistant spends her long workdays printing letters. Her one friend is the printer and, in the dark confines of her office, she begins to open up to him, talking about her fears, her past, her hopes and dreams.
To her, it seems like a beautiful friendsh...
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The Bridegroom Was a Dog
2024 || Hardcover || Yoko Tawada || Granta
A tale of passion and romance between a Japanese schoolteacher and a doglike man, from the prize-winning author of The Last Children of Tokyo
Mitsuko, a schoolteacher at the Kitamura school, inspires both rumour and curiosity in the parents of her students because of her unconventional manner - not least when she tells the children the fable of a princess whose hand in marriage is promised to a dog she is intimate with. And when a young man with sharp canine teeth turns up at the schoolteache...
Suggested in the Stars
2024 || Paperback || Yoko Tawada || Granta
The Door-to-Door Bookstore (Heruitgave)
2024 || Paperback || Carsten Henn || Manilla Press
There's a book written for every one of us...
Carl may be 72 years old, but he's young at heart. Every night he goes door-to-door delivering books by hand to his loyal customers. He knows their every desire and preference, carefully selecting the perfect story for each person.
One evening as he makes his rounds, nine-year-old Schascha appears. Loud and precocious, she insists on accompanying him - and even tries to teach him a thing or two about books.
When Carl's job at the bookstore is thre...
The Postcard (Heruitgave)
2024 || Paperback || Anne Berest || Europa Editions
The Chibineko Kitchen
2024 || Paperback || Yuta Takahashi || Hodder & Stoughton
If you could speak to someone you've lost, one last time, what would you tell them?
Steam rises from the bowls of simmered fat greenling, rice and miso soup on the table in
front of Kotoko.
She has taken the train from Tokyo to reach the Chibineko Kitchen, a restaurant perched
by the sea in Chiba Prefecture. Still reeling from the sudden death of her brother, she has
heard that the food served there can reunite you with a lost loved one for one last time.
Hardly daring to believe it can be tr...