Genre: Fiction
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The twilight years
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Paradise
Paradise is a love story told through three separate narratives. Each takes place in a different location and period of time – from the Mongolian desert to a tropical Pacific Island, and finally to modern-day America. It becomes clear that each couple from the three storylines is the reincarnation of the same man and woman,…
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A future of ice : poems and stories of a Japanese Buddhist
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Masterpieces of the Orient
Selected readings from the poetry, prose, and drama of the Near and Far East, with background introductions.
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The Edogawa Rampo reader
Selections.
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Evil and the mask
When Fuminori is eleven years old, his elderly, enigmatic father calls him into his study for a meeting. “I created you to be a cancer on the world,” his father tells him. It is a tradition in their wealthy family: a patriarch, when reaching the end of his life, will beget one last child to…
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The voice and other stories
Short stories.
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69 : sixty-nine
A year in the life of a high school student in 1960s Japan.
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Kafka on the shore
This magnificent new novel has a similarly extraordinary scope and the same capacity to amaze, entertain, and bewitch the reader. A tour de force of metaphysical reality, it is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for…
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The Silent Cry
Two brothers, Takashi and Mitsu, return from Tokyo to the village of their childhood. The selling of their family home leads them to a confrontation with their family history. Their attempt to escape the influence of the city ends in failure as they realize that its tentacles extend to everything in the countryside, including their…