Genre: Fiction
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Still lives
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Distant thunder : a novel of contemporary Japan
Set in rural Japan at the time of the bubble economy, the book tells of a farming village affected by corruption, greed and urbanization.
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The elephant vanishes
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Somersault : a novel
Ten years after recanting their teachings and abandoning their zealous and violent congregation, two men known only as the Patron and Guide of Humankind seek to overcome a radical faction while leading peaceful followers toward a new future.
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Out
After strangling her husband, Masako Katori, a middle-aged wife and mother working the night shift at a Tokyo factory, enlists the aid of four co-workers to conceal the crime.
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The heredity of taste
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Blue bamboo : tales of fantasy and romance
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The Izu dancer
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The gate
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Patriotism
“Was it death he was now waiting for? Or a wild ecstasy of the senses?” For the young army officer of Yukio Mishima’s seminal story, “Patriotism,” death and ecstasy become intertwined. With his unique rigor and passion, Mishima hones in on the body as the great tragic stage for all we call social, ritual, political.