A large-scale crime novel in which cartel violence, organ trafficking, and fractured family ties collide. Its sense of inescapable brutality leaves a strong impression.

Violence and exploitation keep crossing borders.

A coming-of-age novel that follows one white dog who wanders into a high school in the summer of 1988 and the shifting emotions of students as Japan moves from the Showa era into Heisei.

A dog's presence quietly watches over the choices of eighteen-year-olds.

A linked short-story collection in which encounters such as one with a convenience-store clerk named Nguyen let scientific thinking bring quiet hope to wounded lives.

Deep beneath the earth, something unseen quietly accumulates.

A novel in which Towa, a blind girl waiting for her mother, expands her world through the garden, books, food, and a guide dog.

Protected by light, Towa steps out into the world on her own feet.

A historical novel centered on Takase Shozaemon, a domain official in Kamiyama, as political struggle slowly intrudes on a quiet life.

The storm of domain politics gradually seeps into an old samurai's everyday life.