Genre: Fiction
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The goddess chronicle
In a place like no other, on an island in the shape of a tear drop, two sisters are born into a family of the oracle. Kamikuu, with creamy skin and almond eyes, is admired far and wide; Namima, small but headstrong, learns to live in her sister’s shadow.
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Mon (The gate)
The Gate describes the world of the humble clerk Sosuke and his wife Oyone, living in quiet obscurity in a house at the bottom of a cliff. Childless, the couple find themselves having to take responsibility for Sosuke’s younger brother. Oyone’s health begins to fail, and news that Oyone’s ex-husband will be visiting near by…
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Crackling Mountain and other stories
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Snow country
With the brushstroke suggestiveness and astonishing grasp of motive that won him the Nobel Prize for Literature, Yasunari Kawabata tells a story of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western Japan, the snowiest region on earth. It is there, at an isolated mountain hotspring, that the wealthy sophisticate Shimamura meets the geisha Komako,…
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Thirst for love
A woman’s obsessive love for an 18-year-old youth destroys her.
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Naomi
Chronicles the obsessive love of Joji, an engineer in his thirties, for a fifteen-year-old bar hostess who reminds him of Mary Pickford.
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The face of another.
In this intellectual horror story, a scientist hideously deformed in a laboratory accident–a man who has lost his face and, with it, his connection to other people. Even his wife is now repulsed by him. His only entry back into the world is to create a mask so perfect as to be undetectable. But soon…
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When I whistle.
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Tokyo stories : a literary stroll
This anthology of translated short stories by Japanese writers captures the city of Tokyo throughout most of the 20th century – a period of war, bombing, urbanization and modernization, in short, constant change that has altered and continues to alter the very geography of the city.
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Woman running in the mountains : a novel