Cultural Region/Japanese
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Tale of Genji: A Reader’s Guide
$12.95 Add to cart“Those who wish to deepen their acquaintance with Murasaki’s wondrous world will certainly find Puette’s guide most helpful.” —The Japan Times
This is the most complete reader’s guide available on Ja- Series: Tuttle Classics
- Author: Puette, William J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 15 2009
- ISBN10: 4805310847
- Language: English
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The Tale of Genji
$12.99 Add to cartConsidered today to be a classic of Japanese literature, Lady Murasaki Shikibu’s groundbreaking novel, The Tale of Genji, is a story of a young man in search of love in the time of Heian aristocracy.
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- Series: Mint Editions (Voices from Api)
- Author: Shikibu, Lady Murasaki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 9798888970119
- Language: English
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Lost Girls and Love Hotels
$15.99 Add to cartNow a feature film starring Alexandra Daddario
An achingly honest debut novel of memory, self-destruction, and relationships set in contemporary Tokyo
Sometimes, when I’m staring down a room of Japane
- Author: Hanrahan, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 03 2006
- ISBN10: 0060846844
- Language: English
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This Scheming World: Classic Tales of Desire, Deception and Greed in Old Japan
$16.99 Add to cartA Great Classic of Japanese literature and the masterpiece of novelist Ihara Saikaku–now in a completely new and revised edition with introduction by noted scholar David J. Gundry
The culmination of- Author: Saikaku, Ihara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 4805317108
- Language: English
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Lafcadio Hearn’s Japan: Stories and Essays from Japan’s Most Famous Foreign Observer
$16.99 Add to cart“The Japanese people are more mysterious than I imagined through Hearn’s books.” –Albert Einstein
Lafcadio Hearn is the most significant early interpreter of Japan and Japanese culture for the West–- Author: Hearn, Lafcadio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 4805317140
- Language: English
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The Mad Kyoto Shoe Swapper and Other Short Stories
$6.99 Add to cart“Otowa has woven a series of delightful vignettes of life in Japan, from a true historical story of feuding villages to a man who steals shoes at temples…and some highlighting the cultural differenc… [more below]
- Author: Otowa, Rebecca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0804856575
- Language: English
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The Way to London: A Novel of World War II
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the author of Secrets of Nanreath Hall comes this gripping, beautifully written historical fiction novel set during World War II–the unforgettable story of a young woman who must leave Singapore
- Author: Rickloff, Alix
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 02 2020
- ISBN10: 0062433202
- Language: English
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Angels of the Pacific: A Novel of World War II
$21.99 Read more“Absolutely riveting. A stay-up-all night read about two very different women who discover just how strong they can be–and just how much they’ll dare–during the brutal Japanese occupation of the Phi
- Author: Hooper, Elise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0063117932
- Language: English
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Sunrise: Radiant Stories
$16.00 Read more“A knockout.” —Publishers Weekly (Starred review)
“A remarkable collection.” –Kirkus Reviews A collection of contemplative, lyrical stories examining the visible and invisible consequences of atomic- Author: Kobayashi, Erika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1662601174
- Language: English
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Hardboiled & Hard Luck
$17.00 Read moreIn cherished novels such as Kitchen and Goodbye Tsugumi, Banana Yoshimoto’s warm, witty, and heartfelt depictions of the lives of young Japanese have earned her international acclaim and best-seller s… [more below]
- Author: Yoshimoto, Banana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 14 2006
- ISBN10: 0802142621
- Language: English
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King Rat
$44.99 Add to cartThe epic novel of war, savagery, and survival in a Japanese POW camp by the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James Clavell
Japanese POW camp Changi, S
- Series: Asian Saga #4
- Author: Clavell, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 9798212378338
- Language: English
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Modern Japanese Short Stories: Twenty-Five Stories by Japan’s Leading Writers
$19.99 Add to cartModern Japanese Short Stories is a remarkable collection of Japanese stories from the pioneers of contemporary Japanese literature. This volume’s twenty-five stories by as many authors display a wide … [more below]
- Author: Morris, Ivan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 16 2019
- ISBN10: 4805315245
- Language: English
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Forbidden Colors
$18.00 Add to cartFrom one of Japan’s greatest modern writers comes an exquisitely disturbing novel of sexual combat and concealed passion, a work that distills beauty, longing, and loathing into an intoxicating tale. … [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Mishima, Yukio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 22 1999
- ISBN10: 0375705163
- Language: English
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$17.00 Add to cart“Yoshimoto hits some of the same notes that a previous generation’s literary masters (say, Kawabata or Tanizaki) might sound, and yet the effect seems artless, spontaneous and wonderfully fresh.” —Lo… [more below]
- Author: Yoshimoto, Banana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 0802124429
- Language: English
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The Woman in the Purple Skirt
$18.00 Read moreA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR – Marie Claire
“A taut and compelling depiction of loneliness and obsession.” –Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Girl on the Train “[It] will kee- Author: Imamura, Natsuko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 14, 2022
- ISBN10: 0143136038
- Language: English
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The Dancing Girl of Izu: And Other Stories
$15.95 Add to cartA collection of twenty-three stories from one of the most influential figures in modern Japanese literature.
Yasunari Kawabata is widely known for his innovative short stories, some called “palm-of-th- Author: Kawabata, Yasunari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 29 1998
- ISBN10: 1887178945
- Language: English
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Idol, Burning
$24.99 Add to cart“Akari’s obsession is fatalistic and intense, and Usami’s prose (translated by Asa Yoneda) renders it and the hold it has on her tenuous life ably and affectingly. . . . it will especially resonate wi
- Author: Usami, Rin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0063213281
- Language: English
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The Thorn Puller
$18.95 Add to cartIntroducing Hiromi Ito, an award-winning Japanese author who has been compared to Haruki Murakami and Yoko Tawada.
- Author: Ito, Hiromi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 173762530X
- Language: English
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Naomi
$18.00 Add to cartA hilarious story of one man’s obsession and a brilliant reckoning of a nation’s cultural confusion–from a master Japanese novelist.
When twenty-eight-year-old Joji first lays eyes upon the teenage … [more below]- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Tanizaki, Junichiro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 10 2001
- ISBN10: 0375724745
- Language: English
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The Heike Story: The Novel of Love and War in Ancient Japan
$18.99 Add to cartA page-turner by Japan’s most popular writer of the immediate post-war era!
Set in Japan’s turbulent 12th century, this fast-paced novel recounts the titanic struggle between two leading Japanese clan- Series: Tuttle Classics
- Author: Yoshikawa, Eiji
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 4805317078
- Language: English
