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In Oe's masterpiece of the human condition and family psychology, estranged brothers Mitsusaburo and Takashi have long since left their family home in a remote forested valley on Shikoku, in the south of Japan: Mitsusaburo for work in Tokyo; his younger brother Takashi for the United States, to atone for his part in anti-American student protests. Takashi's return to Japan coincides with a local Korean supermarket magnate's offer to buy the brothers' ancestral storehouse, pitting the broth...

A night train crosses the heavens in these strange, tender tales from one of Japan’s beloved storytellers.Japanese fairy tales: enchanting, enigmatic stories of animals, human beings and the great natural world.Dark and innocent, sublime and whimsical, Kenji Miyazawa’s stories have the ageless feel of the best fairy tales. There are animal allegories such as ‘The Ungrateful Rat’, where a rude rodent insults all the objects he meets until he meets the Rat Tra...

Black Rain is centered around the story of a young woman who was caught in the radioactive "black rain" that fell after the bombing of Hiroshima. lbuse bases his tale on real-life diaries and interviews with victims of the holocaust; the result is a book that is free from sentimentality yet manages to reveal the magnitude of the human suffering caused by the atom bomb. The life of Yasuko, on whom the black rain fell, is changed forever by periodic bouts of radiation sickness and t...

In Oe's masterpiece of the human condition and family psychology, estranged brothers Mitsusaburo and Takashi have long since left their family home in a remote forested valley on Shikoku, in the south of Japan: Mitsusaburo for work in Tokyo; his younger brother Takashi for the United States, to atone for his part in anti-American student protests. Takashi's return to Japan coincides with a local Korean supermarket magnate's offer to buy the brothers' ancestral storehouse, pitting the broth...

Kenji Miyazawa is one of modern Japan’s most beloved writers, a great poet and a strange and marvelous spinner of tales, whose sly, humorous, enchanting, and enigmatic stories bear a certain resemblance to those of his contemporary Robert Walser. John Bester’s selection and expert translation of Miyazawa’s short fiction reflects its full range from the joyful, innocent “Wildcat and the Acorns,” to the cautionary tale “The Restaurant of Many Orders,” to “The Earthgod and the Fox,” which sta...

This is the true story, as told to the doctor who looked after him just before he died, of the life of one of the last traditional yakuza in Japan. It wasn’t a "good" life, in either sense of the word, but it was an adventurous one; and the tale he has to tell presents an honest and oddly attractive picture of an insider in that separate, unofficial world.In his low, hoarse voice, he describes the random events that led the son of a prosperous country shopkeeper to become a member,...

The blistering 1928 Bolshevik satire, unpublishable in the Russia until 1988 - in a brand new translation'A love that cannot be throttled by the rubber tube of an enema bulb is immortal.'Bookish and idealistic Vladimir is tormented with love for Olga; he brings her flowers when other men bring her flour and millet. Olga eventually agrees to marry him, as her building’s central heating will be out of service all winter and at least with two in the b...

'THE AGATHA CHRISTIE OF JAPAN' MURDER & MAYHEM'A TREAT . . . A REDISCOVERED CLASSIC FOR US ALL TO ENJOY' THE TIMES'FULL OF UNEXPECTED TWISTS, A PERFECT MYSTERY FOR A CHILLY NIGHT' READER REVIEW'AN UNDISPUTED CLASSIC' READER REVIEWA CLASSIC COSY MYSTERY FROM JAPAN'S QUEEN OF CRIME** Pre-order MURDER AT LAKE ASHINOKO, the next classic mystery...

A fast-paced fantasy set in an intricate world of romance, magic and betrayal.You are the master of your Gift.You are the master of yourself.No one can take that away.No matter how they try…Born the daughter of the Red Kingdom's King, and raised in exile as a huntress in the Green Kingdom, Anne-Mihielle has been forced to fight for...

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'A state-of-the-countryside novel ... rich in detail but vast in scope' FINANCIAL TIMES'A stunning tale of rural life ... Harrison earns a nod to George Eliot' ALEXANDRA HARRIS, *GUARDIAN**'***Extraordinary ... Harrison is a nonpareil describer of the natural world' INDIA KNIGHT'Wonderful ... an Under Milk Wood for the twenty-first century' AMY LIPTROT'Extraordinary ......