Book Subject Tag: Short stories
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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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Kaiki: uncanny tales from Japan. Volume 2, Country delights
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Kaiki: uncanny tales from Japan. Volume 3, Tales of the metropolis
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Still lives
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Funeral of a giraffe : seven stories
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Boy
A collection of three short stories features two brothers at a school sports day, another pair of brothers who use astronomy to cope with the loss of their father, and an uncool teenage boy who meets a biker girl in Kyoto.
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The voice and other stories
Short stories.
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Rabbits, crabs, etc. : stories by Japanese women
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We, the children of cats : stories and novellas
By turns teasing and terrifying, laconic and luminous, the stories in this anthology are drawn from sources as diverse as Borges, Nabokov, Garcia-Marquez, and traditional Japanese folklore, and yet they ultimately reside in a slyly subversive literary world that is all their own. Blending an uncompromising ethical vision with exuberant, free-wheeling imagery and bracing formal…
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Short stories in Japanese = Nihongo no tanpen shosetsu
This volume of eight short stories, with parallel translations, offers students at all levels the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of contemporary literature without having constantly to refer back to a dictionary. Contents: Concerning the sound of a train whistle in the night or On the efficacy of fiction by Haruki Murakami, translated by…