Genre: Fiction
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The temple of dawn
A young man expends his spirit in the obsessive pursuit of a beautiful woman and a passionate search for mystical enlightement.
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The secret history of the Lord of Musashi ; and, Arrowroot
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Stained glass elegies : stories
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During the rains & Flowers in the shade : two novellas
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Chickens
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Naoko
Expertly interweaving the real and the unreal, Naoko involves a working man, Heisuke, whose wife dies in a bus accident. His young daughter survives, but seems to be inhabited by her mother’s personality.
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The Book of Heroes
When her brother Hiroki disappears after a violent altercation with school bullies, eleven-year-old Yuriko finds a magical book in his room which leads her to another world where she learns that Hiroki has been possessed by a spirit from The Book of Heroes.
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The future is Japanese
Collects thirteen stories from and about Japan, featuring such subjects as the longest and loneliest railroad on Earth, a hollow asteroid full of automated rice paddies, and giant robots.
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A fool’s life.
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Be a woman : Hayashi Fumiko and modern Japanese women’s literature
A close scrutiny of Hayashi Fumiko’s work – in particular the two pieces masterfully translated here, the immensely popular novel Horoki (Diary of a Vagabond) and Suisen (Narcissus).