Genre: Fiction
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Hell screen and other stories
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I saw a pale horse ; and, Selected poems from Diary of a vagabond
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Kaiki: uncanny tales from Japan. Volume 1, Tales of old Edo
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Metal gear solid : guns of the patriots
Solid Snake is a soldier and part of a worldwide nanotechnology network known as the Sons of the Patriots. Time is running out for Snake though, as he will soon succumb to the FOXDIE virus, but not before spreading the disease to nearly everyone he encounters, in essence becoming a walking biological weapon. Snake will…
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The cannery boat, and other Japanese short stories
The stories are representative of the proletarian literary movement in Japan.
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1Q84
An ode to George Orwell’s “1984” told in alternating male and female voices relates the stories of Aomame, an assassin for a secret organization who discovers that she has been transported to an alternate reality, and Tengo, a mathematics lecturer and novice writer.
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A personal matter.
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A tale of false fortunes
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Sanshiro
One of Soseki’s most beloved works of fiction, the novel depicts the 23-year-old Sanshiro leaving the sleepy countryside for the first time in his life to experience the constantly moving ‘real world’ of Tokyo, its women and university. In the subtle tension between our appreciation of Soseki’s lively humour and our awareness of Sanshiro’s doomed…
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Speculative Japan : Outstanding tales of Japanese science fiction and fantasy