Genre: Fiction
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Other voices, other vistas : short stories from Africa, China, India, Japan, and Latin America
Presents twenty-five contemporary stories by authors from countries and cultures around the world, including selections by Yasunari Kawabata, Yukio Mishima, Yuko Tsushima, Kobo Abe, Sawako Ariyoshi, and others.
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Death and the flower
Death and the Flower is a collection of six short stories centered on the themes of family and peril. The title is derived from a Keith Jarrett album of the same name.
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Mandarins : stories
Selections.
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The paper door and other stories
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Murder in Japan : Japanese stories of crime and detection
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Flowers of grass
Outside Tokyo, a tuberculosis sanatorium in the village of K has a six-bed ward that the narrator, an aspiring poet, shares with a student of linguistics and budding writer named Shiomi. After the stubborn Shiomi insists on undergoing a dangerous surgical procedure and dies in the process, two notebooks turn up in his bed-sheets. Flowers…
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Lonely hearts killer
PM Press is proud to bring you this first English translation of a full-length novel by the award-winning author Tomoyuki Hoshino. What happens when a popular and young emperor suddenly dies, and the only person available to succeed him is his sister? How can people in an island country survive as climate change and martial…
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Popular hits of the Showa era
Describes a “gang war” between six aimless youths and six tough, independent career women battling for control of a Tokyo neighborhood and exacting revenge when one of them succumbs to a lethal ambush.
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Hear the wind sing
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The diving pool : three novellas
In this crafty, suspenseful hook., each novella is narrated in the listless, emotionally remote voice of a young woman, such as the high schooler of the title story whose infatuation with her foster brother, Jun, prompts her to obsessively observe his diving practice. As the daughter of religious parents who run an orphanage, Aya feels…