Book Subject Tag: Short stories
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Digital geishas and talking frogs : the best 21st century short stories from Japan
This collection of short stories features the most up-to-date and exciting writing form the most popular and celebrated authors in Japan today. These wildly imaginative and boundary-bursting stories reveal fascinating and unexpected personal responses to the changes raging through today’s Japan. Along with some of the world’s most renowned Japanese authors, Digital Geishas and Talking…
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Speculative Japan : Outstanding tales of Japanese science fiction and fantasy
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The cannery boat, and other Japanese short stories
The stories are representative of the proletarian literary movement in Japan.
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Speculative Japan 2 : “The man who watched the sea” and other tales
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Blue bamboo : tales of fantasy and romance
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Kitchen
Full-fledged phenomenon: a young writer of great talent and great passion whose work has quickly earned a place among the best of twentieth-century Japanese literature. Banana Yoshimoto’s Kitchen is an enchantingly original and deeply affecting book that juxtaposes two tales about mothers, transsexuality, kitchens, love, tragedy, and the terms they all come to in the…
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Autumn wind and other stories
Westerners familiar only with stereotypical images of bowing geisha and dark-suited businessmen will be surprised by the cast of characters translator Lane Dunlop introduces in this anthology. Lovers of fiction and students of Japan are certain to find these stories absorbing, engaging and instructive.
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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