September 28 – October 4, 2026
Noodles at midnight. A grandmother’s recipe no one wrote down. The meal that changed everything. Five novels where food is memory, love, and survival.
A widow's lover becomes the object of her son's cold philosophical rage — Mishima traces how a boy's hunger for purity can curdle into something far more dangerous than mere adolescent cruelty.
Eighteen years stocking shelves at a Tokyo convenience store — Murata finds in fluorescent aisles and perfectly organized inventory the strange nourishment that keeps her protagonist alive, even as the world insists she's starving. A darkly funny meditation on what sustains us when belonging feels like the only meal that matters.
A runaway boy and an old man who speaks to cats drift toward each other across Murakami's most expansive landscape — where libraries open onto other worlds and memory itself becomes a place you can enter. Food appears here not as nourishment but as threshold, each meal a small crossing into elsewhere.
by Mo Yan
A laid-off factory director becomes a film star by accident, and Mo Yan uses the absurdity to skewer bureaucracy with savage tenderness. These stories feast on the gap between what ordinary people endure and what makes them laugh anyway.
A grieving teenager inherits a bookshop and a talking cat — together they rescue neglected volumes from those who don't deserve them, a fable that transforms the act of reading itself into an almost sacred rescue mission.