Book Subject Tag: Short stories
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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
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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…