Genre: Fiction
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The wayfarer
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Monkey business : new writing from Japan. Volume 1, 2011.
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Goodbye, Tsugumi : a novel
Having grown up by the sea with her invalid cousin Tsugumi, Maria moves to Tokyo and encounters university life and impending adulthood, and spending a last summer with her cousin, she comes to a new understanding about home and family.
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The old capital
This novel tells the story of Chieko, the adopted daughter of a Kyoto kimono designer, Takichiro, and his wife, Shige. Since her youth, Chieko has been told that she was kidnapped as a baby by the couple in a moment of profound desire. When she is twenty, however, she learns that she was actually a…
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The sailor who fell from grace with the sea ; The temple of the golden pavilion ; and, Confessions of a mask
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The Makioka Sisters
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Beyond the curve (and other stories)
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Song of sadness
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The Wild goose
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Bedtime eyes
Presents three of Amy Yamada’s novellas/short novels: “Bedtime Eyes,” “The Piano Player’s Fingers”, and “Jesse.” While all are centred around the relationship between a Japanese woman and a black American man, each explores love, sex, and the vast gulf between their different and equally revealing viewpoints.