Genre: Fiction
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Amrita
A Japanese woman’s struggle to regain her memory. She is Saku-chan, a barmaid who suffered a head injury in a fall. She meets her dead sister’s lover and the two have an affair which helps her recover. By the author of Lizard.
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Norwegian wood.
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Runaway horses
The chronicle of a conspiracy and a novel about the roots and nature of Japanese fanaticism in the years that led to war, an era marked by depression, social change and political violence.
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A cat, a man, and two women : stories
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Wonderful fool
Gaston Bonaparte, a young Frenchman, visits Tokyo to stay with his pen-pal Takamori. His appearance is a bitter disappointment to his new friends and his behavior causes them acute embarrassment. He is a trusting person with a simple love for others, and he continues to trust even after they have demonstrated deceit and betrayal. He…
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American stories
Based on his sojourn from Japan to Washington State, Michigan, and New York City in the early years of the twentieth century, these stories, at last available in English, represent a classic account of turn-of-the-century America by one of the greatest Japanese writers of the modern era.
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Not a song like any other : an anthology of writings by Mori Ogai