Genre: Fiction
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The next continent
A private mission to the moon is one woman’s destiny.
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A caring man
With no leads in stopping the “Final Event,” a massacre of epic proportions promised by a terrorist group’s leader, the Tokyo police are forced to contemplate the possibility of international terrorists targeting Japan.
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The curious casebook of Inspector Hanshichi : detective stories of old Edo
Told through the eyes of a street-smart detective, Okamoto Kido’s best-known work inaugurated the historical detective genre in Japan, spawning stage, radio, movie, and television adaptations as well as countless imitations. This selection of fourteen stories, translated into English for the first time, provides a fascinating glimpse of life in feudal Edo (later Tokyo) and…
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The hunting gun
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Kingyo : the artistry of Japanese goldfish
This book is a highly unique art book that reveals goldfish both as an element of Japanese culture and as an influential design motif over the last 500 years.
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The moon over the mountain, and other stories
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The temple of the wild geese ; and Bamboo dolls of Echizen : two novellas
Two elaborate tales written in the early 1960s by the Japanese author Tsutomu Mizukami (1919-2004) explore volcanic oedipal urges lurking just below the surface of unlikely love triangles. In The Temple of the Wild Geese, set at a Zen Buddhist monastery in the mountains, Jinen, an unhappy, disfigured and lonely orphaned novice, develops a filial…
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Confucius : a novel
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Zoo
In the human zoo it’s hard to tell who has the keys to the cage.
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The devil’s disciple
Spinning a complex web of events and influences in this chilling murder mystery, Hamao probes the notion of guilt – both psychological and legal. The Devil’s Disciple is here published alongside ‘Did He Kill Them?’, a haunting tale of a love affair turned sour.