Genre: Fiction
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Grass on the wayside
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Short stories in Japanese = Nihongo no tanpen shosetsu
This volume of eight short stories, with parallel translations, offers students at all levels the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of contemporary literature without having constantly to refer back to a dictionary. Contents: Concerning the sound of a train whistle in the night or On the efficacy of fiction by Haruki Murakami, translated by…
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Asleep
Already an international bestseller, “Asleep” comprises three novellas of women bewitched into a spiritual sleep. One, mourning a lost lover, finds herself sleepwalking. Another, who has embarked on a relationship with a man whose wife is in a coma, finds herself suddenly unable to stay awake. And a third finds her sleep haunted by a…
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House of the sleeping beauties : and other stories
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The sailor who fell from grace with the sea
Explores an adolescent’s response to his mother’s love affair with a handsome visitor to Yokohama.
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The Gourmet Club : a sextet
A collection of six short stories that have been translated into English for the first time, and vividly explore an array of human passions.
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Kangaroo notebook : a novel
One man’s hell at the hands of the health establishment in Japan. It begins when he discovers radishes sprouting from his shins. Admitted to hospital, he finds himself in the grip of bizarre forces: a self-propelled hospital bed, doctors intent on curing the wrong ailments, infant ghosts and mysterious windstorms.
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Kiku’s prayer : a novel
Endo Shusaku was a renowned twentieth-century Japanese author who wrote from the unusual perspective of being both Japanese and Catholic. His work is often compared to that of Graham Greene, who himself considered Endo one of the century’s finest writers. A historical novel set in the turbulent period between the fall of the shogunate and…
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The wild geese
In The Wild Geese, prominent Japanese novelist Ogai Mori offers a poignant story of unfulfilled love. The young heroine, Otama, is forced by poverty to become a moneylender’s mistress. Her dawning consciousness of her predicament brings the novel to a touching climax.
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Inside and other short fiction : Japanese women by Japanese women
Inside and other short fiction showcases the very best of recent writing by Japanese women writers today-including prize-winning novelists and authors never before published in English-as they explore the issue of female identity in a rapidly changing society. Amy Yamada (“Fiesta”), widely published overseas and with many fans among Western readers, offers us a sophisticated…