Genre: Fiction
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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
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Murder in Japan : Japanese stories of crime and detection
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Flowers of grass
Outside Tokyo, a tuberculosis sanatorium in the village of K has a six-bed ward that the narrator, an aspiring poet, shares with a student of linguistics and budding writer named Shiomi. After the stubborn Shiomi insists on undergoing a dangerous surgical procedure and dies in the process, two notebooks turn up in his bed-sheets. Flowers…
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Lonely hearts killer
PM Press is proud to bring you this first English translation of a full-length novel by the award-winning author Tomoyuki Hoshino. What happens when a popular and young emperor suddenly dies, and the only person available to succeed him is his sister? How can people in an island country survive as climate change and martial…