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Naomi
A 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 waitress …
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Kokoro
Haunted by tragic secrets, Sensei slowly opens up to his young disciple, confessing indiscretions from his own student days that have left him reeling with guilt.
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Rough Living
Humorous and poignant, Rough Living (Arakure) follows the fortunes of an ambitious young seamstress, Oshima, as she strives to survive and prosper in Meiji Japan. Written in 1915 by Tokuda …
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Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories
A stunning deluxe edition of one of Penguin Classics' most popular translations Ryünosuke Akutagawa is one of Japan's foremost stylists—a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original …
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A Dark Night's Passing
"An autobiographicl novel tracing a young man's passage through a sequence of distrubing events to a hard-won truce with himself."--Page 4 of cover.
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Love of Mountains
Uno Koji, a literary figure of the first rank in twentieth-century Japan, was a maverick who defied literary conventions by combining the playfulness and stylistic verve of pre-Meiji literature with …
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The Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories
A 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-the-hand" stories …