She's working as hard as she can as a lady-in-waiting!!Linfeng, the daughter of the esteemed Chancellor of the Right, participates as a candidate in a ceremony to select the five-year-old Emperor's wife. However, when she shows her prowess in both handling children and playing the erhu, it captures the attention of Canglian, the highest-ranking regent. Now Linfeng unexpectedly finds herself working in the inner palace looking after the young emperor as a novice lad...

She's working as hard as she can as a lady-in-waiting!!Linfeng, the daughter of the esteemed Chancellor of the Right, participates as a candidate in a ceremony to select the five-year-old Emperor's wife. However, when she shows her prowess in both handling children and playing the erhu, it captures the attention of Canglian, the highest-ranking regent. Now Linfeng unexpectedly finds herself working in the inner palace looking after the young emperor as a novice lad...

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and one of the world’s greatest storytellers comes “an insistently metaphysical mind-bender” (The New Yorker) about a teenager on the run and a deceptively simple old man.Now with a new introduction by the author.**Here we meet fifteen-year-old runaway Kafka Tamura and the elderly Nakata, who is drawn to Kafka for reasons that he cannot fathom. As their paths converge, acclaime...

**A "dreamlike and compelling” tour de force (Chicago Tribune)—an astonishingly imaginative detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets from Japan’s forgotten campaign in Manchuria during World War II.Now with a new introduction by the author.**In a Tokyo suburb, a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife’s missing cat—and then for his wife as well—in a netherworld beneath the city’s placid surface. As t...

**From the bestselling author of Kafka on the Shore: A magnificent coming-of-age story steeped in nostalgia, “a masterly novel” (The New York Times Book Review) blending the music, the mood, and the ethos that were the sixties with a young man’s hopeless and heroic first love.Now with a new introduction by the author.**Toru, a serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is...

A mesmerising mystery story about friendship from the internationally bestselling author of Norwegian Wood and 1Q84Tsukuru Tazaki had four best friends at school. By chance all of their names contained a colour. The two boys were called Akamatsu, meaning ‘red pine’, and Oumi, ‘blue sea’, while the girls’ names were Shirane, ‘white root’, and Kurono, ‘black field’. Tazaki was the only last name with no colour in it.One day Tsukuru Tazaki’s ...

Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy.The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down.As their parallel odysseys unravel, cats converse with people; fish tumble from the sky; a ghost-like pimp deploys a Hegel-spouting girl of the night; a forest harbours soldiers apparently un-aged since Worl...

The book that made Harry Styles believe he could run a marathon.The must-read gift for every runner: a compelling meditation on the power of running and a fascinating insight into the life of this internationally bestselling writer.'Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional'In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he'd...

She's working as hard as she can as a lady-in-waiting!!Linfeng, the daughter of the esteemed Chancellor of the Right, participates as a candidate in a ceremony to select the five-year-old Emperor's wife. However, when she shows her prowess in both handling children and playing the erhu, it captures the attention of Canglian, the highest-ranking regent. Now Linfeng unexpectedly finds herself working in the inner palace looking after the young emperor as a novice lad...

She's working as hard as she can as a lady-in-waiting!!Linfeng, the daughter of the esteemed Chancellor of the Right, participates as a candidate in a ceremony to select the five-year-old Emperor's wife. However, when she shows her prowess in both handling children and playing the erhu, it captures the attention of Canglian, the highest-ranking regent. Now Linfeng unexpectedly finds herself working in the inner palace looking after the young emperor as a novice lad...

She's working as hard as she can as a lady-in-waiting!!Linfeng, the daughter of the esteemed Chancellor of the Right, participates as a candidate in a ceremony to select the five-year-old Emperor's wife. However, when she shows her prowess in both handling children and playing the erhu, it captures the attention of Canglian, the highest-ranking regent. Now Linfeng unexpectedly finds herself working in the inner palace looking after the young emperor as a novice lad...

She's working as hard as she can as a lady-in-waiting!!Linfeng, the daughter of the esteemed Chancellor of the Right, participates as a candidate in a ceremony to select the five-year-old Emperor's wife. However, when she shows her prowess in both handling children and playing the erhu, it captures the attention of Canglian, the highest-ranking regent. Now Linfeng unexpectedly finds herself working in the inner palace looking after the young emperor as a novice lad...