What is transhumanism?
The surprise smash hit - Japan's answer to Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine.
What separates your mind from an animal's?
How long would you wait for her? - Haruki Murakami meets Indecent Proposal in this novel of love, money and betrayal.
From the bestselling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo, a novel that moves between Japan past and present to tell a time-bending story about desire and destiny.
'The most passionate, engaging and historically profound account of the Soviet empire that I have read.' - Michael Ignatieff
Howard Hinton and his family are living in Japan, escaping from a scandal. Hinton's obsession is his work, his voyages into mathematical pure space, into the fourth dimension, but also his wife and sons, each of whom are entangled in the strange and unknown landscapes of Hinton's science fictions.
A book about one of the most important albums of all time, which reinvents music writing in the awesome scope of its exploration.
Built around 16 life-changing gigs and concerts, a passionate investigation of the charged frontier between 20th century music and politics.
Mysterious, perturbing and strikingly beautiful, this collection of stories explores the lives of Malaysian women: immigrants, rebels, lost souls, pragmatists, dreamers.
Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people. He is an office worker with moderate ambitions and mild manners; she is an uninspired but dutiful wife. The acceptable flatline of their marriage is interrupted when Yeong-hye, seeking a more 'plant-like' existence, decides to become a vegetarian, prompted by grotesque recurring nightmares.
