Genre: Fiction
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The black lizard ; and, Beast in the shadows
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Funeral of a giraffe : seven stories
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Digital geishas and talking frogs : the best 21st century short stories from Japan
This collection of short stories features the most up-to-date and exciting writing form the most popular and celebrated authors in Japan today. These wildly imaginative and boundary-bursting stories reveal fascinating and unexpected personal responses to the changes raging through today’s Japan. Along with some of the world’s most renowned Japanese authors, Digital Geishas and Talking…
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Audition
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Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world : a novel
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Hotel Iris
Young hotel clerk Mari is drawn to a widowed translator suspected of killing his wife, who initiates her into a dark realm of pleasure and pain, a world that she embraces even more than the translator.
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Grass on the wayside
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Short stories in Japanese = Nihongo no tanpen shosetsu
This volume of eight short stories, with parallel translations, offers students at all levels the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of contemporary literature without having constantly to refer back to a dictionary. Contents: Concerning the sound of a train whistle in the night or On the efficacy of fiction by Haruki Murakami, translated by…
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Asleep
Already an international bestseller, “Asleep” comprises three novellas of women bewitched into a spiritual sleep. One, mourning a lost lover, finds herself sleepwalking. Another, who has embarked on a relationship with a man whose wife is in a coma, finds herself suddenly unable to stay awake. And a third finds her sleep haunted by a…
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House of the sleeping beauties : and other stories