Book Subject Tag: Social life and customs
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Ashikari and The story of Shunkin : modern Japanese novels
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Hell screen and other stories
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Teach us to outgrow our madness : four short novels
Kenzaburo Oe was ten when American soldiers entered his mountain village during World War II, and his writing “reveals the tension and ambiguity forged by the collapse of the values of his childhood on the one hand and the confrontation with American writers on the other…[His] heroes have been expelled from the certainty of childhood,…
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Beyond the curve (and other stories)
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Exotic Japanese stories, the beautiful and the grotesque; 16 unusual tales and unforgettable images
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Rabbits, crabs, etc. : stories by Japanese women
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Stained glass elegies : stories
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A fool’s life.
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Grotesque
In the wake of the brutal murders of two Tokyo prostitutes, Yuriko and Kazue, Yuriko’s older sister describes the three women’s education at a prestigious girls’ high school, where a strict societal conventions determine the courses of their lives.
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Scandal