Book Subject Tag: Social life and customs
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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
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A fool’s life.
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Mon (The gate)
The Gate describes the world of the humble clerk Sosuke and his wife Oyone, living in quiet obscurity in a house at the bottom of a cliff. Childless, the couple find themselves having to take responsibility for Sosuke’s younger brother. Oyone’s health begins to fail, and news that Oyone’s ex-husband will be visiting near by…
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Song of sadness
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The essential Akutagawa : Rashomon, Hell screen, Cogwheels, A fool’s life and other short fiction
Selections.
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Self portraits : tales from the life of Japan’s great decadent romantic
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Tokyo stories : a literary stroll
This anthology of translated short stories by Japanese writers captures the city of Tokyo throughout most of the 20th century – a period of war, bombing, urbanization and modernization, in short, constant change that has altered and continues to alter the very geography of the city.