Book Subject Tag: Social life and customs
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What the maid saw : eight psychic tales
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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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The gate
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Salmonella men on Planet Porno : stories
A collection of offbeat short stories from an acclaimed Japanese author explores the folly of human desire in a world in which the fantastic and the mundane collide to throw the lives of ordinary men and women into disarray.
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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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Acts of worship : seven stories
Here are seven stories of psychological insight and eroticism from Yukio Mishima.
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A future of ice : poems and stories of a Japanese Buddhist
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Death in midsummer, and other stories.
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Rashomon and other stories
This collection gave birth to a new paradigm when Akira Kurosawa’s film “Rashomon”, made famous Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s disturbing tale of seven people recounting the same incident from shockingly different perspectives.
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Seven Japanese tales
Short stories.