Translator: Birnbaum, Alfred
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Underground
Covers the 1995 Tokyo Gas Attack, during which agents of a Japanese cult released a gas deadlier than cyanide into the subway system, as documented in interviews with its survivors, perpetrators, and victim family members. In March 1995, agents of a Japanese religious cult attacked the Tokyo subway system with sarin, a gas twenty six…
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Norwegian wood.
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All she was worth
Tokyo’s Inspector Shunsake Honma investigates the case of a woman who may have murdered another in order to take her identity. A tale of credit cards and debt and rampant consumerism in today’s Japan.
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The Navidad incident : the downfall of Matías Guili
In this sweeping magical-realist epic set in the fictional south sea island republic of Navidad, Ikezawa gives his imagination free rein to reinvent the myths of twentieth-century Japan. A delegation of Japanese war veterans pays an official visit to the ex-World War II colony, only to see the Japanese flag burst into flames. The following…
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A burden of flowers
From the acclaimed author of “Still Lives,” this novel charts the bitter struggle for justice against the might of the pan-Asian drugs cartels and a nation’s cancerous political corruption.
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On a Small Bridge in Iraq
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The elephant vanishes
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A wild sheep chase
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Pinball, 1973
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Hear the wind sing