Translator: Dunlop, Lane
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During the rains & Flowers in the shade : two novellas
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Autumn wind and other stories
Westerners familiar only with stereotypical images of bowing geisha and dark-suited businessmen will be surprised by the cast of characters translator Lane Dunlop introduces in this anthology. Lovers of fiction and students of Japan are certain to find these stories absorbing, engaging and instructive.
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The paper door and other stories
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A Late chrysanthemum : twenty-one stories from the Japanese
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Floating clouds
Fumiko Hayashi tells the powerful story of tormented love and one woman’s struggle to navigate the cruel realities of postwar Japan. The novel’s characters, particularly its resilient heroine, Koda Yukiko, find themselves trapped in their own drifting, unable to break out of the morass of indecisiveness. Set in the years during and after World War…
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Palm-of-the-hand stories