11 must-read fiction books like Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1) by Yukio Mishima, Michael Gallagher, Michael Gallagher

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Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)

By: Yukio Mishima , Michael Gallagher , Michael Gallagher

4.16

Format: 389 pages, Paperback

Tokyo, 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by ou…

"إن جوهر أي إرادة هو الرغبة في التأثير في التاريخ"

-Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)

"My happiness lies in your hands. Be careful with it, won’t you?"

-Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)

"الرجال لا يفكرون إلا في المال و النساء،لقد نسوا كل ما يليق بالرجل"

-Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)

"Just now I had a dream. I'll see you again. I know it. Beneath the falls."

-Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)

If you liked the fiction plot in Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1) by Yukio Mishima, Michael Gallagher, Michael Gallagher , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of Sanshirō by Jay Rubin, Natsume Sōseki

1. 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 Schoolgirl by Osamu Dazai, Allison Markin Powell, Adam L. Kern, None

2. Schoolgirl

By: Osamu Dazai , Allison Markin Powell , Adam L. Kern , None

4.02

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

Osamu Dazai's 1939 novella depicts a day in the life of a Tokyo schoolgirl. Propelling Dazai into t… read more

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"I yearned for everything long gone."

-Osamu Dazai, Schoolgirl

"Sometimes happiness arrives one night too late."

-Osamu Dazai, Schoolgirl

"Mornings are grey. Always the same. Absolutely empty."

-Osamu Dazai, Schoolgirl

"Good night. I'm Cinderella without her prince. Do you know where to find me in Tokyo? You won't see me again."

-Osamu Dazai, Schoolgirl

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3. Norwegian Wood

By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin

4.01

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a be… read more

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"I wonder what ants do on rainy days?"

-Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

"We're all kind of weird and twisted and drowning."

-Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

"Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that."

-Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

"I’ve never once thought about how I was going to die,"

-Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

Cover of In Praise of Shadows by Edward G. Seidensticker, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Thomas J. Harper, Charles Moore, None

4. In Praise of Shadows

By: Edward G. Seidensticker , Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , Thomas J. Harper , Charles Moore , None

4.75

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and e… read more

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  • japanese literature
  • japan
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5. Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)

By: Yukio Mishima , Michael Gallagher , Michael Gallagher

4.16

Format: 389 pages, Paperback

Tokyo, 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by ou… read more

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  • romance
  • classics
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  • asia
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • asian literature
  • japanese literature
  • novels
  • japan
"إن جوهر أي إرادة هو الرغبة في التأثير في التاريخ"

-Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)

"My happiness lies in your hands. Be careful with it, won’t you?"

-Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)

"الرجال لا يفكرون إلا في المال و النساء،لقد نسوا كل ما يليق بالرجل"

-Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)

"Just now I had a dream. I'll see you again. I know it. Beneath the falls."

-Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)

Cover of Botchan by Natsume Sōseki, Joel Cohn

6. Botchan

By: Natsume Sōseki , Joel Cohn

3.64

Format: 171 pages, Paperback

Like The Catcher in the Rye or The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Botchan, a hilarious tale about … read more

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"الواقع أن البشر هم أقل ما يمكن الاعتماد عليه في هذا العالم."

-Natsume Sōseki, Botchan

"Age should never meddle with such a matter. Mind your own business."

-Natsume Sōseki, Botchan

"Really, there’s nothing in the world as undependable as human beings."

-Natsume Sōseki, Botchan

"Ketika manusia bebas memutuskan untuk menghormatimu, hadiah yang kaumiliki lebih mahal nilainya daripada apapun."

-Natsume Sōseki, Botchan

7. Mishima: A Biography

By: John Nathan

4.57

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

At forty-five, Yukio Mishima was the outstanding Japanese writer of his generation, celebrated both… read more

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8. The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima

By: Henry Scott Stokes

4.57

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima This biography begins with the spectacularly tragic last day of… read more

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9. Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids

By: Kenzaburō Ōe , None , Maki Sugiyama

2.76

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids recounts the exploits of 15 teenage reformatory boys evacuated in wart… read more

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10. The Woman in the Dunes

By: Kōbō Abe , E. Dale Saunders

3.89

Format: 241 pages, Paperback

The Woman in the Dunes, by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, su… read more

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"Timpului nu-i dai pinteni ca unui cal."

-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

"Defeat begins with the fear that one had lost."

-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

"Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?"

-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

"Aşa se spune, înfrangerea începe cu teama de a fi înfrant."

-Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

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11. Kafka on the Shore

By: Haruki Murakami , Philip Gabriel

4.13

Format: 467 pages, Paperback

Kafka on the Shore, a tour de force of metaphysical reality, is powered by two remarkable character… read more

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"In dreams begins responsiblities."

-Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

"I don’t know what it means to live."

-Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

"Artists are those who can evade the verbose."

-Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

"It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore."

-Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

12. The Setting Sun

By: Osamu Dazai , Donald Keene

4.36

Format: 303 pages, Paperback

The post-war period in Japan was one of immense social change as Japanese society adjusted to the s… read more

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13. No Longer Human

By: Osamu Dazai , Donald Keene

3.99

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human, this leading postwar Japanese writer's second novel, tells the poign… read more

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"Show me what you've written," I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it."

-Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

"He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost."

-Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

"Then what's a synonym for woman?" "Entrails." "You're not very poetic, are you? Well, then, what's the antonym for entrails?" "Milk."

-Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

"I felt as though the vessel if my suffering had become empty, as if nothing could interest me now. I had lost even the ability to suffer."

-Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

14. The Silent Cry

By: Kenzaburō Ōe , John Bester

4.12

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Two brothers, Takashi and Mitsu, return from Tokyo to the village of their childhood. The selling o… read more

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15. 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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16. The Makioka Sisters

By: Edward G. Seidensticker , Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

4.04

Format: 538 pages, Paperback

In Osaka in the years immediately before World War II, four aristocratic women try to preserve a wa… read more

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17. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

By: Cormac McCarthy

4.16

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expa… read more

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"See the child."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

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18. Thousand Cranes

By: Yasunari Kawabata , Edward G. Seidensticker

3.71

Format: 147 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover of this ISBN can be found here. Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata’s Thousa… read more

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"Гріх ніколи не змиєш, а горе минає."

-Yasunari Kawabata, Thousand Cranes

"Коли вона померла, я з жалем подумала: навіть якщо її не розуміли, то все одно смерть не можна виправдати. Смерть виключає будь-яку надію на порозуміння."

-Yasunari Kawabata, Thousand Cranes

"Now, even more than the evening before, he could think of no one with whom to compare her. She had become absolute, beyond comparison. She had become decision and fate."

-Yasunari Kawabata, Thousand Cranes

"– Понимаете, Кикудзисан, человек не может быть благоразумным и мудрым, если в нем слишком сильно мужское или женское начало. – Да? Значит, мудрость среднего пола? – Иронизируете? Ну, ну… Однако, когд…"

-Yasunari Kawabata, Thousand Cranes

Cover of Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata, Edward G. Seidensticker

19. Snow Country

By: Yasunari Kawabata , Edward G. Seidensticker

3.59

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

Nobel Prize recipient Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer's mast… read more

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"국경의 긴 터널을 빠져나오자, 雪國이었다."

-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

"Nothing is so strange when one is in love."

-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

"In the moonlight the fine geishalike skin took on the luster of a seashell."

-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

"The notes went out crystalline into the clean winter morning, to sound on the far, snowy peaks."

-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

20. Beauty and Sadness

By: Yasunari Kawabata , Howard Hibbett

3.81

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

Beauty and Sadness (Japanese: Mei shisatoAi shimito Utsukushisa to kanashimi to) is a 1964 novel by… read more

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21. Mishima ou La vision du vide

By: Marguerite Yourcenar

3.69

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Le 24 novembre 1970, Mishima prépare avec un soin minutieux sa mort. Il est âgé de quarante-cinq an… read more

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6 must-read asia books like Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1) by Yukio Mishima, Michael Gallagher, Michael Gallagher

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Sanshirō

Jay Rubin , Natsume Sōseki

3.82

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Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin

4.01

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Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)

Yukio Mishima , Michael Gallagher , Michael Gallagher

4.16

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The Woman in the Dunes

Kōbō Abe , E. Dale Saunders

3.89

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24 best-selling fiction books like No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai, Donald Keene

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The Stranger

Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

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Norwegian Wood

Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin

4.01

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After Dark

Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin

3.74

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.06

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