Genre: Fiction
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Audition
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Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world : a novel
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Hotel Iris
Young hotel clerk Mari is drawn to a widowed translator suspected of killing his wife, who initiates her into a dark realm of pleasure and pain, a world that she embraces even more than the translator.
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Grass on the wayside
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Short stories in Japanese = Nihongo no tanpen shosetsu
This volume of eight short stories, with parallel translations, offers students at all levels the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of contemporary literature without having constantly to refer back to a dictionary. Contents: Concerning the sound of a train whistle in the night or On the efficacy of fiction by Haruki Murakami, translated by…
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Asleep
Already an international bestseller, “Asleep” comprises three novellas of women bewitched into a spiritual sleep. One, mourning a lost lover, finds herself sleepwalking. Another, who has embarked on a relationship with a man whose wife is in a coma, finds herself suddenly unable to stay awake. And a third finds her sleep haunted by a…
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House of the sleeping beauties : and other stories
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The sailor who fell from grace with the sea
Explores an adolescent’s response to his mother’s love affair with a handsome visitor to Yokohama.
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The Gourmet Club : a sextet
A collection of six short stories that have been translated into English for the first time, and vividly explore an array of human passions.
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Kangaroo notebook : a novel
One man’s hell at the hands of the health establishment in Japan. It begins when he discovers radishes sprouting from his shins. Admitted to hospital, he finds himself in the grip of bizarre forces: a self-propelled hospital bed, doctors intent on curing the wrong ailments, infant ghosts and mysterious windstorms.