Book Subject Tag: Short stories
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Toddler Hunting and Other Stories
Winner of Japan’s top literary prizes (the Akutagawa, the Tanizaki, the Noma, and the Yomiuri), Taeko Kono writes with a strange beauty: her tales are pinpricked with disquieting scenes, her characters all teetering on self-dissolution, especially in the context of their intimate relationships. In the title story, the protagonist loathes young girls but compulsively buys […]
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Lemon
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The word book
Like the surfaces of a jagged crystal, each story in this collection shows an entirely different facet when viewed from a different angle. Playing games with the basic units of both life and fiction-the solid certainties of the self, the world around us, and the words we use to describe these things to one another-Mieko […]
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Voices of the Pacific : a celebration of diversity : a reader’s guide to writings from Japan, China, Korea, Viet Nam, The Philippines, Pacific Islands
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The woman with the flying head and other stories
A collection of fantasy stories by Yumiko Kurahashi.
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Realm of the dead
A collection of short stories, where the lands of both the living and the dead are equally dark and mysterious worlds where logic and reality are subject to constant change and where ideas about identity and self are continually questioned.
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Love and other stories of Yokomitsu Riichi
Short stories.
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Tomo : friendship through fiction : an anthology of Japan teen stories
One year after the tsunami, this benefit fiction anthology helps teens learn about Japan and contribute to long-term relief efforts
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Winds from afar.
Sixteen short stories with underlying nature themes.
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Kaiki: uncanny tales from Japan. Volume 1, Tales of old Edo