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Ryuichi Sakamoto

Narrated by

Akie Kotabe, Sam Bett

A bestseller in Japan, a remarkable reflection on making art, living life, and accepting death, from the legendary Ryuichi Sakamoto, the world-renowned musical genius and godfather of electronic music.One of Japan's most influential artists and composers, Ryuichi Sakamoto was a man of multitudes. Perhaps best known as the Oscar-winning composer of Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor and a founder of the groundbreaking electronic music group Yellow Magic...

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Sonoko Machida

Translated by

Sam Bett

**THE MILLION-COPY JAPANESE BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE JAPAN BOOKSELLERS' AWARDMADE INTO AN AWARD-NOMINATED FILM"As heartbreaking as it is heart-filling, a stunning story about a universal truth: we all long to be heard. And if we’re lucky, we find a soulmate—sometimes in the place we least expect—who can truly hear us." —Heather Aimee O'Neill, author of Read with Jenna Book Club pick The Irish Goodbye"[This] beautiful bear hug of a book both broke my he...

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Ryuichi Sakamoto

Translated by

Sam Bett

A bestseller in Japan, a remarkable reflection on making art, living life, and accepting death, from the legendary Ryuichi Sakamoto, the world-renowned musical genius and godfather of electronic music.One of Japan's most influential artists and composers, Ryuichi Sakamoto was a man of multitudes. Perhaps best known as the Oscar-winning composer of Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor and a founder of the groundbreaking electronic music group Yellow Magic...

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Akira Otani

Narrated by

Cindy Kay

Translated by

Sam Bett

Tokyo, 1979. Yoriko Shindo, a workhorse of a woman who has been an outcast her whole life, is kidnapped and dragged to the lair of the Naiki-kai, a branch of the yakuza. After she savagely fends off a throng of henchmen in an attempt to escape, Shindo is only permitted to live under one condition: that she will become the bodyguard and driver for Shoko Naiki, the obsessively sheltered daughter of the gang’s boss.Eighteen-year-old Shoko, pretty and silent as a doll, has no friends, ...

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Fuminori Nakamura

Translated by

Sam Bett

What transforms a person into a killer? Can it be something as small as a suggestion?Turn this page, and you may forfeit your entire life.With My Annihilation, Fuminori Nakamura, master of literary noir, has constructed a puzzle box of a narrative in the form of a confessional diary that implicates its reader in a heinous crime.Delving relentlessly into the darkest corners of human consciousness, My Annihilation interrogat...

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Sonoko Machida

Translated by

Sam Bett

**THE MILLION-COPY JAPANESE BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE JAPAN BOOKSELLERS' AWARDMADE INTO AN AWARD-NOMINATED FILM"As heartbreaking as it is heart-filling, a stunning story about a universal truth: we all long to be heard. And if we’re lucky, we find a soulmate—sometimes in the place we least expect—who can truly hear us." —Heather Aimee O'Neill, author of Read with Jenna Book Club pick The Irish Goodbye"[This] beautiful bear hug of a book both broke my he...

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Osamu Dazai

Translated by

Sam Bett

From the bestselling cult author, Osamu Dazai, a familiar theme with an unfamiliar twist: a lover’s suicide pact—but this time the woman livesSachiyo Takano, a charismatic young woman, travels from the countryside to a bustling prewar Tokyo, where she meets an irresistible stranger. They spend the night together, but things go sideways and never quite straighten out. Sachiyo wakes up in a hotel room, having survived a drug overdose, while her lover, whom she learns...

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Izumi Suzuki

Translated by

Sam Bett, David Boyd, Daniel Joseph, Helen O'Horan

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Verso Fiction

A new collection of stories from the cult author of Terminal BoredomIzumi Suzuki had ideas about doing things differently, ideas that paid little attention to the laws of physics, or the laws of the land. In this new collection, her skewed imagination distorts and enhances some of the classic concepts of science fiction and fantasy.A philandering husband receives a bestial punishment from a wife with her own secrets to keep; a music lover finds her...

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AKIRA OTANI

Translated by

Sam Bett

A fierce mixed-race fighter develops a powerful attachment to the yakuza princess she’s been forced to protect in this explosive queer thriller: Kill Bill meets The Handmaiden meets Thelma and Louise.Tokyo, 1979. Yoriko Shindo, a workhorse of a woman who has been an outcast her whole life, is kidnapped and dragged to the lair of the Naiki-kai, a branch of the yakuza. After she savagely fends off a throng of henchmen in an attempt to escap...

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Yukio Mishima

Translated by

Sam Bett

Mishima’s essential text on the aesthetics of the bodyIn this endlessly fascinating essay—part bildungsroman, part treatise—from one of Japanese’s most celebrated and controversial modern writers, we witness the transformation of Yukio Mishima from a bookish teenager who avoided fighting in WWII, to a bodybuilder, a warrior, and a writer soaring at the heights of fame in postwar Japan, who ultimately became a leader of a military group who tried to overthrow the Ja...

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Izumi Suzuki

Translated by

Polly Barton, Sam Bett, David Boyd, Daniel Joseph

**Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Thrillist, The Millions, Frieze, and Metropolis JapanThe first English language publication of the work of Izumi Suzuki, a legend of Japanese science fiction and a countercultural icon**At turns nonchalantly hip and charmingly deranged, Suzuki's singular slant on speculative fiction would be echoed in countless later works, from Margaret Atwood and Harumi Murakami, to Black Mirror and Ex Machina. In these darkly p...

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Osamu Dazai

Translated by

Sam Bett

For fans of No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai’s darkly bewitching novel about the small redemptions of being a pathetic, miserable writer.A fictional writer in his thirties named Osamu Dazai has just mailed his publisher an awful manuscript, filling him with dread and shame. Wandering along a river in a nearby park in suburban Tokyo, he meets a high-school dropout and the two get into an intellectual spat. Eventually, Dazai finds himself agreeing to perform in ...