19 Top japan books like La monaca tuttofare, la donna serpente, il demone beone: Racconti dal medioevo giapponese by Roberta Strippoli

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La monaca tuttofare, la donna serpente, il demone beone: Racconti dal medioevo giapponese

By: Roberta Strippoli

3.58

Format: 229 pages, Paperback

Nobili principi che si innamorano di fanciulle non nobili; monaci e monache che possiedono ben poco…

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Cover of Il futon by Katai Tayama, Ilaria Ingegneri, Luisa Bienati

1. Il futon

By: Katai Tayama , Ilaria Ingegneri , Luisa Bienati

3.30

Format: 131 pages, Paperback

Futon, de par son titre mme, le symbolisme quivoque de cette pice de literie traditionnelle, l'roti… read more

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Cover of Sanshirō by Jay Rubin, Natsume Sōseki

2. Sanshirō

By: Jay Rubin , Natsume Sōseki

3.82

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

One of Soseki's most beloved works of fiction, the novel depicts the 23-year-old Sanshiro leaving t… read more

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"Desire is a frightening thing."

-Jay Rubin, Sanshirō

"Doğa, bir mücevheri yaratana kadar kim bilir kaç yıl harcamıştır. Yine o mücevher, madencinin şansı yaver gidene dek, yıldızlar altında kaç yıl, tek başına parlamıştır?"

-Jay Rubin, Sanshirō

"Ora io sto studiando questo libro solo per l'esame, solo per guadagnarmi il pane, trattenendo rabbia e lacrime. Ricordate: sia maledetto per sempre il sistema degli esami!"

-Jay Rubin, Sanshirō

"Hirota feels strongly drawn toward nature and the natural, is hyper-sensitive to the artificial—particularly that most cramped and constraining man-made creation, society—and does his best to avoid i…"

-Jay Rubin, Sanshirō

Cover of Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel

3. Sputnik Sweetheart

By: Haruki Murakami , Philip Gabriel

3.83

Format: 229 pages, Paperback

alternate cover can be found here Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But… read more

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"I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky"

-Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

"Ice is cold; roses are red. I’m in love."

-Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

"It was far too hot to think about complicated matters."

-Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

"A percepção não passa da soma dos nossos mal-entendidos."

-Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

Cover of The Tosa Diary (Tuttle Classics of Japanese Literature) (English and Japanese Edition) by Ki no Tsurayuki, William N. Porter

4. The Tosa Diary (Tuttle Classics of Japanese Literature) (English and Japanese Edition)

By: Ki no Tsurayuki , William N. Porter

3.35

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Written with artless simplicity and quiet humor, The Tosa Diary is the story of a fifty-five day jo… read more

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Cover of The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter by Anonymous, Yasunari Kawabata, Donald Keene

5. The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter

By: Anonymous , Yasunari Kawabata , Donald Keene

3.79

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

Preface by Donald Keene Taketori Monogatari, The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter is the oldest surviving… read more

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6. Rashomon and Other Stories

By: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa , Takashi Kojima

3.78

Format: 479 pages, Paperback

Writing at the beginning of the twentieth century, Ryunosuke Akutagawa created disturbing stories o… read more

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Cover of Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima

7. Confessions of a Mask

By: Yukio Mishima

2.57

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

Confessions of a Maskis the story of an adolescent who must learn to live with the painful fact tha… read more

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Cover of The Thirteenth Night by Ichiyō Higuchi, Robert Lyons Danly

8. The Thirteenth Night

By: Ichiyō Higuchi , Robert Lyons Danly

3.41

Format: 400 pages,

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Cover of The Tale of Genji by Royall Tyler, Murasaki Shikibu

9. The Tale of Genji

By: Royall Tyler , Murasaki Shikibu

3.90

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

See an alternate cover edition . Written in the eleventh century, this portrait of courtly life in… read more

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Cover of Follia by Patrick McGrath, Matteo Codignola

10. Follia

By: Patrick McGrath , Matteo Codignola

3.96

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

«Le storie d’amore contraddistinte da ossessione sessuale sono un mio interesse professionale ormai… read more

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"Gli uomini gelosi sono intrinsecamente deboli. Hanno il terrore di essere abbandonati."

-Patrick McGrath, Follia

"these are precisely the conditions that killed love, after first blighting its growth: squalor, fear, uncertainty, overfamiliarity."

-Patrick McGrath, Follia

"Stella mi disse di aver capito in quel momento che in ciascuno di noi c'è come l'anelito a gridare al mondo la verità, a qualsiasi costo. O a distruggersi."

-Patrick McGrath, Follia

"For despite his confidence, and his apparent maturity, I suspected that there was in him a deep and childish need to elevate, and idealize, the love object. This is not uncommon in artists. The very …"

-Patrick McGrath, Follia

Cover of The Pillow Book by Sei Shōnagon, Ivan Morris

11. The Pillow Book

By: Sei Shōnagon , Ivan Morris

3.91

Format: 163 pages, Paperback

"The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon" is a fascinating, detailed account of Japanese court life in the … read more

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Cover of As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in Eleventh-Century Japan by Lady Sarashina, Ivan Morris

12. As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in Eleventh-Century Japan

By: Lady Sarashina , Ivan Morris

4.00

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

In the mainstream of Japan's literary tradition, As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreamsnot only reveals mu… read more

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Cover of The Tales of Ise by Anonymous, H. Jay Harris

13. The Tales of Ise

By: Anonymous , H. Jay Harris

4.24

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

A timeless work, beloved since the Middle Ages, takes a glorious new form in this deluxe modern edi… read more

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Cover of Hojoki: Visions of a Torn World by Michael Hofmann, Kamo no Chōmei

14. Hojoki: Visions of a Torn World

By: Michael Hofmann , Kamo no Chōmei

3.99

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

The single great work of literary witness in medieval Japan, Hojoki is a short social chronicle pro… read more

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15. Tales of Moonlight and Rain

By: Ueda Akinari , Anthony H. Chambers

3.87

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

First published in 1776, the nine gothic tales in this collection are Japan's finest and most celeb… read more

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16. Essays in Idleness - The Tsurezuregusa of Kenko

By: Donald Keene , Yoshida Kenkō , 兼好法師

3.86

Format: 416 pages,

Written sometime between 1330 and 1332, the Essays in Idleness,with their timeless relevance and ch… read more

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17. La principessa di Sumiyoshi

By: Unknown , None

4.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

La crudelta di una matrigna che maltratta la figliastra e ostacola la sua storia d'amore con il Ten… read more

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18. The Merchant of Venice

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , None

3.78

Format: 247 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In this lively comedy of love and money in sixteenth-century Venice, Bassanio wants to impress the … read more

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"He will fence with his own shadow."

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

"You speak an infinite deal of nothing."

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

"The fiend gives the more friendly counsel."

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

"i buy a thousand pound a year! i buy a rope!"

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

19. The Life of an Amorous Woman and Other Writings

By: Saikaku Ihara , Ivan Morris

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

[From back.] One of the great writers of Japan, Ihara Saikaku (1623-93) wrote of the lowest class i… read more

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20. One, None, and One Hundred Thousand

By: Luigi Pirandello , William Weaver

3.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

The novel had a rather long and difficult period of gestation. Pirandello began writing it in 1909.… read more

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21. Kokoro

By: Natsume Sōseki , Edwin McClellan

3.77

Format: None pages,

Hailed by The New Yorker as "rich in understanding and insight,"Kokoro -- "the heart of things"-- i… read more

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22. Strange Tale of Panorama Island

By: Edogawa Rampo , None

2.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Edogawa Ranpo (1894-1965) was a great admirer of Edgar Allan Poe and like Poe drew on his penchant … read more

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23. Silk

By: Alessandro Baricco

3.37

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

When an epidemic threatens to destroy the silk trade in France, the young merchant Herve Joncour le… read more

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24. Black Rain

By: John Bester , Masuji Ibuse

3.92

Format: 32 pages,

Black Rain is centered around the story of a young woman who was caught in the radioactive "black r… read more

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25. The Kojiki: Records of Ancient Matters

By: Ō no Yasumaro , Basil Hall Chamberlain , None

3.45

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Written by imperial command in the eighth century, The Kojikiis the oldest surviving Japanese book.… read more

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Cover of Tokyo Express by Seichō Matsumoto

26. Tokyo Express

By: Seichō Matsumoto

3.68

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

In una cala rocciosa della baia di Hakata, i corpi di un uomo e di una donna vengono rinvenuti all’… read more

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Cover of Il dolce domani by Banana Yoshimoto

27. Il dolce domani

By: Banana Yoshimoto

3.65

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Sayoko e Yoichi hanno avuto un incidente, lei è rimasta gravemente ferita, lui invece non c'è più. … read more

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"L'esistenza non conosce colpi di scena né finali. Si limita a scorrere, a muoversi. Non c'è soluzione alla morte dei nostri cari. Piuttosto che stare male perché non possiamo più vederli, è meglio an…"

-Banana Yoshimoto, Il dolce domani

Cover of La monaca tuttofare, la donna serpente, il demone beone: Racconti dal medioevo giapponese by Roberta Strippoli

28. La monaca tuttofare, la donna serpente, il demone beone: Racconti dal medioevo giapponese

By: Roberta Strippoli

3.58

Format: 229 pages, Paperback

Nobili principi che si innamorano di fanciulle non nobili; monaci e monache che possiedono ben poco… read more

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Cover of La dama que amaba los insectos y otros relatos breves del antiguo Japón by Anonymous

29. La dama que amaba los insectos y otros relatos breves del antiguo Japón

By: Anonymous

3.61

Format: 163 pages, Paperback

En una sociedad estrictamente regulada y construida en torno a las más refinadas apariencias, una d… read more

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Cover of Sotto il segno del drago by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

30. Sotto il segno del drago

By: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

3.63

Format: 462 pages, Paperback

Il volume raccoglie la produzione di Akutagawa attraverso la varietà di temi dei suoi racconti: rac… read more

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Cover of Yoshino by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

31. Yoshino

By: Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

3.16

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

Una trama esile ma con diversi piani di lettura, un andare svagato apparentemente senza tema, un'in… read more

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15 must-read fiction books like La monaca tuttofare, la donna serpente, il demone beone: Racconti dal medioevo giapponese by Roberta Strippoli

Transform Your Habits

Il futon

Katai Tayama , Ilaria Ingegneri , Luisa Bienati

3.30

Transform Your Habits

Sanshirō

Jay Rubin , Natsume Sōseki

3.82

Transform Your Habits

Sputnik Sweetheart

Haruki Murakami , Philip Gabriel

3.83

Transform Your Habits

The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter

Anonymous , Yasunari Kawabata , Donald Keene

3.79

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9 Best classics books like As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in Eleventh-Century Japan by Lady Sarashina, Ivan Morris

Transform Your Habits

The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter

Anonymous , Yasunari Kawabata , Donald Keene

3.79

Transform Your Habits

The Tale of Genji

Royall Tyler , Murasaki Shikibu

3.90

Transform Your Habits

The Diary of Lady Murasaki

Murasaki Shikibu , Richard Bowring

3.66

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The Pillow Book

Sei Shōnagon , Ivan Morris

3.91

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