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Genre: Fiction

Child of darkness : Yoko and other stories

October 28, 2013
Chronicle of my mother

Selections.

October 28, 2013
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…

October 28, 2013
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…

October 28, 2013
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.

October 28, 2013
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.

October 28, 2013
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…

October 28, 2013
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.

October 28, 2013
Contemporary Japanese literature : an anthology of fiction, film, and other writing since 1945

This anthology contains translations of 22 works that reflect the mixture of modernism and traditionalism that characterized Japanese literature and film between the end of World War II and the mid-1970s.

October 28, 2013
Lou-lan and other stories

October 28, 2013

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