East Asian Literary Fiction

In the Miso Soup

by Ryu Murakami

A Tokyo sex-tour guide is hired by an American who is almost certainly a serial killer.

More East Asian Literary Fiction

• Hunger — Choi Jin-young
• The Temple of the Golden Pavilion — Yukio Mishima
• Please Look After Mom — Kyung-Sook Shin
• Bestiary — K-Ming Chang
• Sanshirō — Natsume Sōseki
• Girls in the Dark — Rikako Akiyoshi
• Death's End — Cixin Liu
• The Eyes Are the Best Part — Monika Kim

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