Genre: Fiction
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Loups-garous
In a future where nothing is as it seems, can old legends come true?
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Evening clouds
A “snapshot” of daily life in 1960s Tokyo.
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Child of darkness : Yoko and other stories
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Chronicle of my mother
Selections.
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Usurper of the sun
The mysterious Builders have brought humanity to the edge of extinction; can they be reasoned with, or must they be destroyed? Aki Shiraishi is a high school student working in the astronomy club and one of the few witnesses to an amazing event. Someone is building a tower on the planet Mercury. Soon, the Builders…
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Taken captive : a Japanese POW’s story
On January 25, 1945, Private Ooka Shohei of the Japanese Imperial Army was captured by American forces in the Philippines. Near death from starvation and acute malaria, he was nursed back to health by his captors and shipped off to a POW camp. Taken Captive is his powerful and poignant account of life as a…
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Ravine and other stories
The four works in this collection are dreamlike evocations of the inner lives of ordinary people. In incantatory prose, the stories portray a world of sounds, sensations and portents, all seething beneath the plain veneer of Japanese life.
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The counterfeiter and other stories
These three short stories, The Counterfeiter, Obasute, and The Full Moon, explore the roles of loneliness, compassion, beauty, and forgiveness in day-to-day life in Japan, all within the context of the Buddhist-influenced notion of inescapable predestination.
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Rocket girls
Yukari Morita is a high school girl on a quest to find her missing father. While searching for him on the Solomon Islands, she receives the offer of a lifetime, she’ll get the help she needs to find her father, and all she need do in return is become the world’s youngest, lightest astronaut. Yukari…
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Still life and other stories
This is a collection of delicate tales which reveal the flow of life in the modern Japanese family, the accidental pleasures and the unexplained misfortune.