Genre: Fiction
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All she was worth
Tokyo’s Inspector Shunsake Honma investigates the case of a woman who may have murdered another in order to take her identity. A tale of credit cards and debt and rampant consumerism in today’s Japan.
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Paprika
Widely acknowledged as Yasutaka Tsutsui’s masterpiece, Paprika unites his surreal, quirky imagination with a compelling, haunting narrative. When prototype models of a device for entering into patients’ dreams go missing at the Institute for Psychiatric Research, it transpires that someone is using them to manipulate people’s dreams and drive them insane. Threatened both personally and…
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Hell screen ; Cogwheels ; A fool’s life
Selections.
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Floating clouds
Fumiko Hayashi tells the powerful story of tormented love and one woman’s struggle to navigate the cruel realities of postwar Japan. The novel’s characters, particularly its resilient heroine, Koda Yukiko, find themselves trapped in their own drifting, unable to break out of the morass of indecisiveness. Set in the years during and after World War…
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Strange tale of panorama island
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Genocidal organ
The war on terror exploded, literally, the day Sarajevo was destroyed by a homemade nuclear device. The leading democracies transformed into total surveillance states, and the developing world has drowned under a wave of genocides. The mysterious American John Paul seems to be behind the collapse of the world system, and it’s up to intelligence…
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The crab cannery ship and other novels of struggle