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Genre: Fiction

  • Ravine and other stories

    The four works in this collection are dreamlike evocations of the inner lives of ordinary people. In incantatory prose, the stories portray a world of sounds, sensations and portents, all seething beneath the plain veneer of Japanese life.

  • The counterfeiter and other stories

    These three short stories, The Counterfeiter, Obasute, and The Full Moon, explore the roles of loneliness, compassion, beauty, and forgiveness in day-to-day life in Japan, all within the context of the Buddhist-influenced notion of inescapable predestination.

  • Rocket girls

    Yukari Morita is a high school girl on a quest to find her missing father. While searching for him on the Solomon Islands, she receives the offer of a lifetime, she’ll get the help she needs to find her father, and all she need do in return is become the world’s youngest, lightest astronaut. Yukari…

  • Still life and other stories

    This is a collection of delicate tales which reveal the flow of life in the modern Japanese family, the accidental pleasures and the unexplained misfortune.

  • Contemporary Japanese literature : an anthology of fiction, film, and other writing since 1945

    This anthology contains translations of 22 works that reflect the mixture of modernism and traditionalism that characterized Japanese literature and film between the end of World War II and the mid-1970s.

  • Lou-lan and other stories

  • Rocket girls : the last planet

    Yukari Morita is a high school girl on a quest to find her missing father. While searching for him in the Solomon Islands, she receives the offer of a lifetime–she’ll get the help she needs to find her father, and all she need do in return is become the world’s youngest, lightest astronaut.

  • Shanghai : a novel

  • Belka, why don’t you bark?

    Belka, Why Don’t You Bark? begins in 1943, when Japanese troops retreat from the Aleutian island of Kiska, leaving four military dogs behind. One of them dies in isolation, and the others are taken under the protection of U.S. troops. Meanwhile, in the USSR, a KGB military dog handler kidnaps the daughter of a Japanese…

  • The tale of the Heike

    With a reflection on the fleeting nature of power and glory begins The Tale of the Heike, an epic from twelfth-century Japan. Comparable in stature to The Tale of Genji, The Tale of the Heike narrates with wit, energy, and compassion the stories of such unforgettable characters as the ruthless warlord Kiyomori, who dies still…