Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar for twenty-first-century Japan, a young woman suffering from depression embarks on a series of darkly comic domestic disasters that lead her to question whether she is worthy of loveTwenty-five-year-old Yasuko has been living with her kind but apathetic boyfriend Tsunaki for three years. During this time, she has battled waves of depression and hypersomnia, staying in bed for days on end, mired in ennui.When Tsunaki begi...

Sirius has been surviving through hardship as a sex slave, when suddenly a noblewoman with a dwindling estate buys him from his previous owners. Sirius felt nothing but gratitude for the girl who decided to save him, but it seems upon hearing the name Astrea Matthews that he knows her from somewhere in his past... The man that was once a sex slave seems to have been a prince, charming and eloquent in every capacity... and what more could this mean in both heart and the bedroom...?

Sirius has been surviving through hardship as a sex slave, when suddenly a noblewoman with a dwindling estate buys him from his previous owners. Sirius felt nothing but gratitude for the girl who decided to save him, but it seems upon hearing the name Astrea Matthews that he knows her from somewhere in his past... The man that was once a sex slave seems to have been a prince, charming and eloquent in every capacity... and what more could this mean in both heart and the bedroom...?

For Once, The Prince Will Prove The Villainess’ Innocence!When Crown Prince Vincent announces their engagement is over, Elizabeth faints. What will become of House la Montlivere? Of her entire family? At the prince’s side, the so-called heroine smirks. Elizabeth is doomed to a villainess’ fate… Only for the tables to turn when Vincent suddenly calls out the heroine for her misdeeds!Jump into the story of an ill-fated but handsome prince as he fights for his...

Sirius has been surviving through hardship as a sex slave, when suddenly a noblewoman with a dwindling estate buys him from his previous owners. Sirius felt nothing but gratitude for the girl who decided to save him, but it seems upon hearing the name Astrea Matthews that he knows her from somewhere in his past... The man that was once a sex slave seems to have been a prince, charming and eloquent in every capacity... and what more could this mean in both heart and the bedroom...?

Sirius has been surviving through hardship as a sex slave, when suddenly a noblewoman with a dwindling estate buys him from his previous owners. Sirius felt nothing but gratitude for the girl who decided to save him, but it seems upon hearing the name Astrea Matthews that he knows her from somewhere in his past... The man that was once a sex slave seems to have been a prince, charming and eloquent in every capacity... and what more could this mean in both heart and the bedroom...?

Sirius has been surviving through hardship as a sex slave, when suddenly a noblewoman with a dwindling estate buys him from his previous owners. Sirius felt nothing but gratitude for the girl who decided to save him, but it seems upon hearing the name Astrea Matthews that he knows her from somewhere in his past... The man that was once a sex slave seems to have been a prince, charming and eloquent in every capacity... and what more could this mean in both heart and the bedroom...?

Sirius has been surviving through hardship as a sex slave, when suddenly a noblewoman with a dwindling estate buys him from his previous owners. Sirius felt nothing but gratitude for the girl who decided to save him, but it seems upon hearing the name Astrea Matthews that he knows her from somewhere in his past... The man that was once a sex slave seems to have been a prince, charming and eloquent in every capacity... and what more could this mean in both heart and the bedroom...?

Sirius has been surviving through hardship as a sex slave, when suddenly a noblewoman with a dwindling estate buys him from his previous owners. Sirius felt nothing but gratitude for the girl who decided to save him, but it seems upon hearing the name Astrea Matthews that he knows her from somewhere in his past... The man that was once a sex slave seems to have been a prince, charming and eloquent in every capacity... and what more could this mean in both heart and the bedroom...?

Sirius has been surviving through hardship as a sex slave, when suddenly a noblewoman with a dwindling estate buys him from his previous owners. Sirius felt nothing but gratitude for the girl who decided to save him, but it seems upon hearing the name Astrea Matthews that he knows her from somewhere in his past... The man that was once a sex slave seems to have been a prince, charming and eloquent in every capacity... and what more could this mean in both heart and the bedroom...?

Winner of the Akutagawa Prize and the Kenzaburo Oe Prize, these eleven surreal tales, set in the offices, zoos, bus stops, boutiques, and homes of contemporary Japan "are reminiscent, at least to this reader, of Joy Williams and Rivka Galchen and George Saunders" (Weike Wang, The New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice).In the English-language debut of one of Japan’s most fearlessly inventive young writers a housewife takes up bodybuilding and sees rad...

Aijo Rentaro has asked a hundred girls out and struck out every time. In desperation, he prays for guidance, only to be told by a god that his rejections were due to a cosmic mishap! Now this god will set things right by making sure Aijo gets one hundred dates. Except, as things often go with gods, there's a catch: each of his one hundred dates is Aijo's destined soulmate! Worse, if he doesn't return their feelings, they'll all die in horrible--and hilarious—accidents!