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  • The River Ki

    Powerful enough to sweep away people on its banks and placid enough to carry along with its flow a sumptuous wedding procession, the River Ki dominates the lives of the people who live in its fertile valley and imparts a vital strength to the three women–mother, daughter, and granddaughter–around whom this novel is built. It…

  • Birthday

    Thirty years before the tragic events of Ring, Sadako Yamamura was an aspiring stage actress on the verge of her theatrical debut. The beautiful and ravishing Sadako was the object of every male’s desire involved with the company including n the director. There was one thespian she was interested in, but… Fast forward past the…

  • A rainbow in the desert : an anthology of early twentieth century Japanese children’s literature

    A collection of Japanese children’s literature in translation spans three decades with contributions by major authors as well as familiar lullabies.

  • Breaking into Japanese literature : seven modern classics in parallel text

    This is a graded reader for Japanese literature. There are 7 stories, 4 by Soseki and 3 by Akutagawa, representing 3 different reading levels. In each case the story is presented in Japanese and English with a running dictionary of terms used.

  • Japanese tales of mystery & imagination

  • Death sentences

    A young poet, Who May, pens one disturbing poem after another until he creates a poem that can kill, which sparks a “magic poem plague” when copies are mailed to all of his friends.

  • Domesday

    The Dome. It happens in an instant. Like a thunderclap it appears over the modern Japanese utopia. In one short moment the high-rise paradise is transformed into a gruesome hell. For those few who survive the initial onslaught of mysterious angels spawned by the Dome’s walls, life becomes a constant struggle in a purgatory with…

  • Coin locker babies

    The story of two babies abandoned in a locker at a railroad station. They grow up to represent the darker side of Japanese youth, lacking tradition and religion. One brother becomes a male prostitute, then a rock star, the other goes to jail and becomes involved in a plot to poison Tokyo. By the author…

  • Blind willow, sleeping woman 25 stories

  • An echo of heaven

    Translation of a Japanese novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author in which a narrator tells the story of Marie Kuraki, a woman who embarks upon a complicated quest for spiritual peace after her life is rocked by a series of personal tragedies.