World Literature - Japan
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Dead-End Memories: Stories
$16.95 Add to cartJapan’s internationally celebrated master storyteller returns with five stories of women on their way to healing that vividly portrays the blissful moments and everyday sorrows that surround us in eve… [more below]
- Author: Yoshimoto, Banana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1640096108
- Language: English
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Dragon Palace
$18.95 Add to cartIncluded in The New Yorker’s Best Books of 2023
Stories from a Japanese master of transformative fiction, where reality,
myth, and human foibles meet shifting dimensions of gender, biology,
and destin- Author: Kawakami, Hiromi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: 19-Sep-23
- ISBN10: 1737625350
- Language: English
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Scattered All Over the Earth
$16.95 Add to cartWelcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now remembered as “the land of sushi.” Hiruko, its former citizen and a climate refugee herself, has a job … [more below]
- Author: Tawada, Yoko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0811229289
- Language: English
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The Premonition
$24.00 Read moreThe internationally beloved author of Kitchen and Dead-End Memories returns with a beautiful and heartfelt story of a young woman haunted by her childhood and the inescapable bitterness that inevitabl… [more below]
- Author: Yoshimoto, Banana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1640093710
- Language: English
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The Flowers of Buffoonery
$14.95 Add to cartThe Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanitarium where Yozo Oba–the narrator of No Longer Human at a younger age–is being kept after a failed suicide attempt. While he is convalescing, his f
- Author: Dazai, Osamu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0811234541
- Language: English
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Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
$17.99 Add to cartThe wise and charming international bestseller and hit Japanese movie–about a young woman who loses everything but finds herself–a tale of new beginnings, romantic and family relationships, and the
- Author: Yagisawa, Satoshi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 04, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063278677
- Language: English
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A Woman of Pleasure
$17.95 Add to cartAn unforgettable novel of fearless women banding together to pursue the lives they want, inspired by the real-life historic Japanese courtesan strike
In 1903, a fifteen-year-old girl named Aoi Ichi is- Author: Murata, Kiyoko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 27, 2024
- ISBN10: 1640095799
- Language: English
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Self-Portraits: Stories
$15.95 Add to cart“Art dies the moment it acquires authority.” So said Japan’s quintessential rebel writer Osamu Dazai, who, disgusted with the hypocrisy of every kind of establishment, from the nation’s obsolete arist
- Author: Dazai, Osamu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 06, 2024
- ISBN10: 0811232263
- Language: English
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Lady Joker, Volume 2
$18.95 Add to cart“A novel that portrays with devastating immensity how those on the dark fringes of society can be consumed by the darkness of their own hearts.”
This second ha
–Yoko Ogawa, author of The Memory Police- Author: Takamura, Kaoru
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1641293950
- Language: English
