Genre: Fiction
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The reed cutter and Captain Shigemoto’s mother : two novellas
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Volcano.
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Autumn wind and other stories
Westerners familiar only with stereotypical images of bowing geisha and dark-suited businessmen will be surprised by the cast of characters translator Lane Dunlop introduces in this anthology. Lovers of fiction and students of Japan are certain to find these stories absorbing, engaging and instructive.
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The Oxford book of Japanese short stories
Beginning with the late nineteenth-century writings which first assimilated and reworked Western literary traditions, and coming right up to the younger generation dealing with the pitfalls and paradoxes of modern life, this anthology offers a stimulating survey of the development of the Japanese short story, the Japanese literary genre.
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The cage
Kazuya Takino leads a quiet life running a supermarket in the Tokyo suburbs. But when an extortionist tries to force him out of business, he finds himself drawn into the yakuza underworld – a world he once called home and thought he had left behind. Pursuing him is detective Takagi, an aficionado of French cigarettes…
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Ico, castle in the mist
Iko, a boy with horns, is sent to an evil castle shrouded in mist, where he meets an imprisoned girl named Yoruda. Then, he decides to fight the castle lord to overcome his destiny and escape with Yoruda.
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Night of the Milky Way Railway
Giovanni and his friend Campanella, who is dead from drowning, travel on a celestial railway which is a ferry of souls journeying to the afterlife.
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A fool’s life.
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Wandering heart : the work and method of Hayashi Fumiko
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Crystal silence
It is 2071, and Mars is being slowly terraformed by many nations often cooperating in an uneasy truce that reflects tensions back on Earth.