Genre: Fiction
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Frozen Dreams: A Japanese Adventure Novel
Based on a real-life tragedy in 1965, this novel tells the story of a party of climbers on the Hidaka mountain range on Japan’s northern island. In spite of weather warnings, six men attempt an ascent on the highest peak, Mount Poroshiri – a fateful decision that costs all their lives as they are caught…
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Norwegian wood
This stunning and elegiac novel by the author of the internationally acclaimed Wind-Up Bird Chronicle has sold over 4 million copies in Japan and is now available to American audiences for the first time. It is sure to be a literary event. Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted…
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Rouse up o young men of the new age!
Kenzaburo Oe is one of the world’s finest writers, and in Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age! he delivers a virtuoso novel of extraordinary power, touching on his familiar themes of family, responsibility, the nature of literary inspiration, and the unique nature of parenting a disabled child.
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Rabbits, crabs, etc. : stories by Japanese women
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Ten nights of dream ; Hearing things ; The heredity of taste
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Self portraits : tales from the life of Japan’s great decadent romantic
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The dancing girl of Izu and other stories
Twenty-three stories by a Japanese writer. The subjects include beggars, Buddhist priests and love dramas. The story, Diary of My Sixteenth Year, is on the friendship of a boy and his grandfather.
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Arthurian literature. 2
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Acts of worship : seven stories
Here are seven stories of psychological insight and eroticism from Yukio Mishima.
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Ashikari and The story of Shunkin : modern Japanese novels