Genre: Fiction
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During the rains & Flowers in the shade : two novellas
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Chickens
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Naoko
Expertly interweaving the real and the unreal, Naoko involves a working man, Heisuke, whose wife dies in a bus accident. His young daughter survives, but seems to be inhabited by her mother’s personality.
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The Book of Heroes
When her brother Hiroki disappears after a violent altercation with school bullies, eleven-year-old Yuriko finds a magical book in his room which leads her to another world where she learns that Hiroki has been possessed by a spirit from The Book of Heroes.
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The future is Japanese
Collects thirteen stories from and about Japan, featuring such subjects as the longest and loneliest railroad on Earth, a hollow asteroid full of automated rice paddies, and giant robots.
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A fool’s life.
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Be a woman : Hayashi Fumiko and modern Japanese women’s literature
A close scrutiny of Hayashi Fumiko’s work – in particular the two pieces masterfully translated here, the immensely popular novel Horoki (Diary of a Vagabond) and Suisen (Narcissus).
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Kaiki: uncanny tales from Japan. Volume 3, Tales of the metropolis
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A guru is born
Having lost his job and his girlfriend, Kazuo becomes a member of a religious sect, after seeing the Guru heal an old woman in a wheelchair. He soon discovers the secrets of success in the sect are much the same as the business world, the power of suggestion playing a larger role than faith. When…
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After the quake : stories
A collection of stories inspired by the January 1995 Kobe earthquake and the poison gas subway attacks two months later takes place between the two disasters and follows the experiences of people who found their normal lives undone by surreal events.