Early Light
By: Osamu Dazai
3.71
Format: 72 pages, Hardcover
Early Light offers three very different aspects of Osamu Dazai's genius: the title story relates hi…
Want to Read $ 9.99"A farmhouse was blazing away right before us. It took an incredibly long time to burn to the ground. One could almost see the history of that house going up in flames along with its roof and pillars."-Osamu Dazai, Early Light
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1. Hell Screen
By: Jay Rubin , Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
4.20
Format: 58 pages, Paperback
"There can be no doubt that Akutagawa had more individuality than any other writer of his time and… read more
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- classics
- literature
- short stories
- fiction
- japanese literature
- asian literature
- japan
"He was said to have survived starvation by eating human flesh, after which he had the strength to tear out the antlers of a living stag with his bare hands."-Jay Rubin, Hell Screen
"People used to say that on moonless nights Her Ladyship's broad-skirted scarlet trousers would glide eerily along the outdoor corridor, never touching the floor."-Jay Rubin, Hell Screen
"I could have sworn that the man's eyes were no longer watching his daughter dying in agony, that instead the gorgeous colors of flames and the sight of a woman suffering in them were giving him joy b…"-Jay Rubin, Hell Screen
"Still more horrible was the color of the flames that licked the latticed cabin vents before shooting skyward, as though - might I say? - the sun itself had crashed to earth, spewing its heavenly fire…"-Jay Rubin, Hell Screen
2. Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories
By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin , Ryūnosuke Akutagawa , Yoshihiro Tatsumi
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
This collection features a brilliant new translation of the Japanese master's stories, from the sou… read more
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- literature
- short stories
- fiction
- japanese literature
- japan
3. The Bridegroom Was a Dog
By: Yōko Tawada , Margaret Mitsutani
4.33
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
In these three narratives, an ingenious story-teller has created a new kind of fantasy, playful yet… read more
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- literature
- short stories
- fiction
- japanese literature
- asian literature
- japan
4. The Life of a Stupid Man
By: Jay Rubin , Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
3.85
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
'What is the life of a human being - a drop of dew, a flash of lightning? This is so sad, so sad.' … read more
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5. Kappa
By: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa , Geoffrey Bownas
2.86
Format: 442 pages, Paperback
From the author of Rashomon comes a Swiftian satire of Japanese society thinly disguised as the fic… read more
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6. The Rainbow
By: Yasunari Kawabata
3.50
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Available in English for the very first time, a powerful, poignant novel about three half sisters i… read more
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- literature
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- 20th century
- asian literature
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- japan
"La profondità dell'essere umano è proporzionale alle esperienze vissute e alla lontananza del tempo in cui il suo animo si immerge."-Yasunari Kawabata, The Rainbow
"Un ponte di pietra tra le anime? Meglio allora un arcobaleno." "Sì, è possible che il ponte che unisce due anime sia simile a un arcobaleno."-Yasunari Kawabata, The Rainbow
"Fra le tante cose che suscitano nell'uomo una sensazione di impotenza, l'architettura è più di ogni altra arte soggetta a condizionamenti. Luogo, materiale, destinazione, grandezza, costi, le bizzarr…"-Yasunari Kawabata, The Rainbow
7. This is Amiko, Do You Copy?
By: Natsuko Imamura
3.63
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
Other people don’t seem to understand Amiko. Whether eating curry rice with her hands at school or … read more
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- literature
- japanese literature
- fiction
- asian literature
- contemporary
- japan
"Every time she cried, "I love you!" the words shattered her heart without mercy."-Natsuko Imamura, This is Amiko, Do You Copy?
8. Weasels in the Attic
By: Hiroko Oyamada
3.43
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
From the acclaimed author of The Hole and The Factory, a thrilling and mysterious work that explore… read more
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- literature
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- japanese literature
- japan
"We meet at school, or work, or maybe a store. Wherever it is, there's just a random group of individuals, right? Within that group, you find your mate. If you were in a different group, you' d end up…"-Hiroko Oyamada, Weasels in the Attic
9. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
10. The English Understand Wool
By: Helen DeWitt
4.10
Format: 69 pages, Hardcover
Maman was exigeante—there is no English word–and I had the benefit of her training. Others may not … read more
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- contemporary
11. The Premonition
By: Banana Yoshimoto
3.43
Format: 133 pages, Hardcover
The internationally beloved author of Kitchen and Dead-End Memories returns with a beautiful and he… read more
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- short stories
- japanese literature
- fiction
- asian literature
- contemporary
- japan
"I'd never known a love before that could blot out the world around like this."-Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition
"Later, for the first time in a very long time, I heard my aunt play the piano. Its tone was soft, and just like I remembered it. At the kitchen window one overcast afternoon, I watched its beautiful …"-Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition
12. The Poems of Nakahara Chuya
By: Chūya Nakahara
4.30
Format: 146 pages, Paperback
Born in 1907, Nakahara Chuya was one of the most gifted and colourful of Japan’s early modern poets… read more
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- classics
- literature
- fiction
- japanese literature
- asian literature
- japan
"Song of the Sheep (to Yasuhara Yoshihiro) III She trusted me completely, confided in me completely, her heart was the colour of an orange; that tenderness did not overflow, nor did it cringe away, li…"-Chūya Nakahara, The Poems of Nakahara Chuya
"Image (II) Over every extinguished past, tears gush out. The castle wall is desiccated; the wind blows. The grass waves; over the hills, across the fields no rest; white angels countenances do not ap…"-Chūya Nakahara, The Poems of Nakahara Chuya
"Quietude Nothing visits me; my heart is quiet. It was Sunday’s roofed school paths, - everyone gone to the meadow. The floorboards have a cold shine, small birds are singing in the garden. The half-s…"-Chūya Nakahara, The Poems of Nakahara Chuya
"Lost Hope Vanishing into the dark sky, my young day’s blazing hope. Like a summer night’s star, even now visible far off in the sky, even now. Vanishing into the dark sky, my young day’s dreams and h…"-Chūya Nakahara, The Poems of Nakahara Chuya
13. Bungou Stray Dogs - Dead Apple (Dead Apple, #1)
By: Kafka Asagiri
4.45
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
Odkąd Atsushi Nakajima dołączył do Zbrojnej Agencji Detektywistycznej, jego życie składa się z burz… read more
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- fiction
14. Early Light
By: Osamu Dazai
3.71
Format: 72 pages, Hardcover
Early Light offers three very different aspects of Osamu Dazai's genius: the title story relates hi… read more
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- novels
- literature
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- 20th century
- japanese literature
- japan
"A farmhouse was blazing away right before us. It took an incredibly long time to burn to the ground. One could almost see the history of that house going up in flames along with its roof and pillars."-Osamu Dazai, Early Light
15. The Road to the City
By: Natalia Ginzburg
3.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
Delia is one of five children, growing up in a poor Italian village. She is seventeen, and dreams o… read more
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- literature
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- 20th century
16. In the Act
By: Rachel Ingalls
3.72
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
From Rachel Ingalls, the author of Mrs. Caliban , another delicious, highly improbable, and hilario… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"A woman, she thought, can get the eyes and everything else right without any trouble: her creative power is inherent. Men can never create; they only copy. That's why they're always so jealous."-Rachel Ingalls, In the Act
17. An Inventory of Losses
By: Judith Schalansky
3.36
Format: 253 pages, Hardcover
Each disparate object described in this book—a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tiger,… read more
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- short stories
- contemporary
18. The Famous Magician
By: César Aira
3.61
Format: 60 pages, Hardcover
A certain writer (“past sixty, enjoying ‘a certain renown’”) strolls through the old book market in… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
19. Spadework for a Palace
By: László Krasznahorkai
3.92
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Spadework for a Palace bears the subtitle “Entering the Madness of Others” and offers an epigraph: … read more
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20. 文豪ストレイドッグス 22 [Bungō Stray Dogs 22]
By: Kafka Asagiri
4.71
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
探偵社VS.猟犬、太宰VS.ドストエフスキー…直接全面対決、開始! 世界と探偵社の命運は、ブラドを担いで逃げ回る文の小さな背中託された――。一方ムルソーでは、ゴーゴリが太宰とドストに命がけの脱… read more
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21. 3 Streets
By: Yōko Tawada
3.23
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
The always astonishing Yoko Tawada here takes a walk on the supernatural side of the street. In “Ko… read more
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- japanese literature
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