Genre: Fiction
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The Scarlet gang of Asakusa
A new translation of the only work not currently available in English by a Nobel-Prize winning author and the best known Japanese writer outside of Japan.
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Confessions of a mask
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Naomi
Chronicles the obsessive love of Joji, an engineer in his thirties, for a fifteen-year-old bar hostess who reminds him of Mary Pickford.
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The face of another.
In this intellectual horror story, a scientist hideously deformed in a laboratory accident–a man who has lost his face and, with it, his connection to other people. Even his wife is now repulsed by him. His only entry back into the world is to create a mask so perfect as to be undetectable. But soon…
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When I whistle.
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Tokyo stories : a literary stroll
This anthology of translated short stories by Japanese writers captures the city of Tokyo throughout most of the 20th century – a period of war, bombing, urbanization and modernization, in short, constant change that has altered and continues to alter the very geography of the city.
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Woman running in the mountains : a novel
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The twilight years
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Paradise
Paradise is a love story told through three separate narratives. Each takes place in a different location and period of time – from the Mongolian desert to a tropical Pacific Island, and finally to modern-day America. It becomes clear that each couple from the three storylines is the reincarnation of the same man and woman,…
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A future of ice : poems and stories of a Japanese Buddhist