Genre: Fiction
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The girl I left behind
A man who caused a girl to fall in love with him by playing up his deformity, then seduced and abandoned her, is haunted by her memory. A study of the workings of conscience. By a Japanese Catholic writer, author of Silence.
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Modern Japanese stories : an anthology
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The heart is alone; a selection of 20th century Japanese short stories.
Short stories.
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Ashes
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Dark water
A collection of horror short stories from the acclaimed author of Ring and Spiral. These spooky stories share the sea as a theme.
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Milky Way Railroad
Kenji is swept aboard a magical train, representing the soul’s passage to heaven, where he meets many of the recently departed. He will only be allowed to return to Earth when he dreams of being reunited with his father. This translation celebrates the centennial of the author’s birth.
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Tu Tze-Chun.
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The stories of Ibis
In a world where humans are a minority and androids have created their own civilization, a wandering storyteller meets the beautiful android Ibis. She tells him seven stories of human/android interaction in order to reveal the secret behind humanity’s fall. The stories that Ibis speaks of are the “seven novels” about the events surrounding the…
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Still lives
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Distant thunder : a novel of contemporary Japan
Set in rural Japan at the time of the bubble economy, the book tells of a farming village affected by corruption, greed and urbanization.