Genre: Fiction
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The temple of the golden pavilion.
The son of a poor rural priest becomes an acolyte at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion. Mizoguchi had built up an image of ideal beauty in his mind based on this Golden Pavilion; this ideal image causes him to feel disappointed in any supposed form of beauty, even the actual physical Golden Pavilion. He…
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Diary of a mad old man
Diary of a Mad Old Man records, with alternating humor and sadness, seventy-seven-year-old Utsugi’s discovery that even his stroke-ravaged body still contains a raging libido, especially in the unwitting presence of his chic, mysterious daughter-in-law.
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Secret rendezvous
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Deep river
In India, four Japanese tourists converge on the River Ganges in search of absolution. The novel probes their consciences, from Isobe, grieving the death of the wife he ignored in life, to Kugachi, haunted by wartime memories of a man who saved his life by eating human flesh, then drank himself to death to forget.…
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Vita sexualis
Though banned three weeks after its publication in 1909, Vita Sexualis is far more than a prurient erotic novel. The narrator, a professor of philosophy, wrestles with issues of sexual desire, sex education, and the proper place of sensuality. He tells the story of his own journey into sexual awareness, spanning fifteen years, from his…
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Unmapped territories : new women’s fiction from Japan
Translation of seven stories by contemporary Japanese women.
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Other voices, other vistas : short stories from Africa, China, India, Japan, and Latin America
Presents twenty-five contemporary stories by authors from countries and cultures around the world, including selections by Yasunari Kawabata, Yukio Mishima, Yuko Tsushima, Kobo Abe, Sawako Ariyoshi, and others.
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Death and the flower
Death and the Flower is a collection of six short stories centered on the themes of family and peril. The title is derived from a Keith Jarrett album of the same name.
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Mandarins : stories
Selections.
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The paper door and other stories