Genre: Fiction
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The incident at Sakai and other stories
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The devotion of suspect X
Yasuko Hanaoka thought she had escaped her abusive ex-husband Togashi. When he shows up one day, the situation quickly escalates and Togashi ends up dead. Yasuko’s next-door-neighbor Ishigami offers his help, not only disposing of the body, but plotting the cover-up as well.
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Shadow family
This compelling murder mystery focuses on the murky world of Internet chat rooms. Veteran Desk Sergeant Takegami finds himself in center stage of the investigations after his colleague is hospitalized.
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The Best Japanese science fiction stories
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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.