Book Subject Tag: Short stories
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The Trial of Pak Tal and other stories
The so-called Zainichi Korean diaspora in Japan is a large and diverse community with a long and painful history that began with the Japanese colonization of Korea (1910-1945). One of the most prolific and influential Zainichi Korean writers in Japan, Kim Tal-su (1920-1997) left behind a wide body of work depicting the many social and…
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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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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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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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The voice and other stories
Short stories.
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Rabbits, crabs, etc. : stories by Japanese women