Shindo Junjo’s debut novel centers on a man who writes stories into a large regional atlas. Maps, movement, and narration overlap until real places become a labyrinth of stories.

A man carrying a map spins the stories hidden in places as he walks.

Ririko Tono’s debut, published under a new title after the award-winning Asagao no Asa. In humid everyday scenes, it portrays people shaken by love and loss with a slightly uncanny touch.

Awkward love takes on pain and tenderness in the humidity of summer.

A coming-of-age novel set around the library committee of a regional college-prep high school. It observes the awkwardness of love and friendship from the space of the school library.

In the quiet of the library, the distance between love and friendship slowly changes.