Genre: Fiction
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Tokyo stories : a literary stroll
This anthology of translated short stories by Japanese writers captures the city of Tokyo throughout most of the 20th century – a period of war, bombing, urbanization and modernization, in short, constant change that has altered and continues to alter the very geography of the city.
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Woman running in the mountains : a novel
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The twilight years
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Paradise
Paradise is a love story told through three separate narratives. Each takes place in a different location and period of time – from the Mongolian desert to a tropical Pacific Island, and finally to modern-day America. It becomes clear that each couple from the three storylines is the reincarnation of the same man and woman,…
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A future of ice : poems and stories of a Japanese Buddhist
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Masterpieces of the Orient
Selected readings from the poetry, prose, and drama of the Near and Far East, with background introductions.
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The Edogawa Rampo reader
Selections.
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Evil and the mask
When Fuminori is eleven years old, his elderly, enigmatic father calls him into his study for a meeting. “I created you to be a cancer on the world,” his father tells him. It is a tradition in their wealthy family: a patriarch, when reaching the end of his life, will beget one last child to…
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The voice and other stories
Short stories.
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69 : sixty-nine
A year in the life of a high school student in 1960s Japan.