Once and Forever: The Tales of Kenji Miyazawa
By: Kenji Miyazawa
3.90
Format: 273 pages, Paperback
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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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- literature
- asia
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- japan
"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
2. Sisters by a River
By: Barbara Trapido , Barbara Comyns
3.81
Format: 161 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. On the banks of the River Avon, six sister… read more
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- classics
- fiction
3. The Recognitions
By: William H. Gass , William Gaddis
4.20
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural cri… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"That fever had passed; but for the rest of his life it never left his eyes."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
4. Spring Garden
By: Tomoka Shibasaki , Polly Barton
3.27
Format: 161 pages, Kindle Edition
Winner of the Akutagawa Prize, a sharp, photo-realistic novella of memory and thwarted hope'He'd co… read more
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- literature
- asia
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- japan
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"Avoiding bother was Taro's governing principle. It wasn't that he was a stick-in-the-mud. It was just that, rather than putting himself out in order to get the more pleasing or interesting things he …"-Tomoka Shibasaki, Spring Garden
"His home town as it existed in his memory seemed distant to him, like something that belonged to another person. It was almost as though he'd mistaken a place he'd seen on TV or in a film for a thing…"-Tomoka Shibasaki, Spring Garden
5. A High Wind in Jamaica
By: Francine Prose , Richard Hughes
3.23
Format: 403 pages, Paperback
New edition of a classic adventure novel and one of the most startling, highly praised stories in E… read more
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- literature
- classics
- fiction
6. Livret de famille
By: Patrick Modiano
2.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Quatorze recits ou l'autobiographie se mele aux souvenirs imaginaires. L'auteur peint aussi bien un… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
7. Gulag
By: Anne Applebaum
4.01
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
The Gulag--a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal … read more
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8. Tales from Moominvalley (The Moomins, #7)
By: Tove Jansson , Thomas Warburton
3.31
Format: None pages, Paperback
In these nine delightfully funny stories, readers will discover how the Moomin family spend their f… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- fantasy
- short stories
9. The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
By: Yukio Mishima , Ivan Morris
4.48
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
In The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, celebrated Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima creates a haunting… read more
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- literature
- japanese literature
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- japan
10. Transparent Things
By: Vladimir Nabokov
3.50
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
"Transparent Thingsrevolves around the four visits of the hero - sullen, gawky Hugh Person - to Swi… read more
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- literature
- classics
- fiction
11. Agapē Agape
By: William Gaddis , Sven Birkerts , Joseph Tabbi
4.33
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
William Gaddis published four novels during his lifetime, immense and complex books that helped ina… read more
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- literature
- classics
- fiction
12. The Star Diaries: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy
By: Stanisław Lem , Michael Kandel
4.16
Format: None pages, Paperback
Ijon Tichy, Lem's Candide of the Cosmos, encounters bizarre civilizations and creatures in space th… read more
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- fiction
- classics
- fantasy
- short stories
13. 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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14. Autobiography of a Corpse
By: Adam Thirlwell , Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky , Joanne Turnbull , None
2.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
The stakes are wildly high in Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's fantastic and blackly comic philosophical … read more
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15. Soul
By: John Berger , Andrei Platonov , Robert Chandler , None
3.60
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
A New York Review Books Original The Soviet writer Andrey Platonov saw much of his work suppressed … read more
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16. The Peregrine
By: J.A. Baker
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
From autumn to spring, J.A. Baker set out to track the daily comings and goings of a pair of peregr… read more
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17. My Two Worlds
By: Enrique Vila-Matas , Sergio Chejfec , None
4.16
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
Approaching his fiftieth birthday, the narrator in My Two Worlds is wandering in an unfamiliar Braz… read more
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18. Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
By: Lafcadio Hearn
3.85
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
"Kwaidan" translates from the Japanese as weird tales, which perfectly describes these haunting sto… read more
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19. The Gate
By: Natsume Sōseki , Damian Flanagan , Francis Mathy
4.32
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
One of the central masterpieces of 20th-century Japanese literature, The Gatedescribes the everyday… read more
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20. The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches
By: Matsuo Bashō , None
4.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
In later life Basho turned to Zen Buddhism, and the travel sketched in this volume relfect his atte… 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. 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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- literature
- asia
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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
23. Let Us Compare Mythologies
By: Leonard Cohen , None
3.96
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Published in 1956 when he was twenty-two years old, Let Us Compare Mythologiesis Leonard Cohen's fi… read more
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24. How Do You Live?
By: Genzaburo Yoshino
4.01
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Anime master Hayao Miyazaki’s favorite childhood book, in English for the first time. First pub… read more
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"you can't become a great man without having great thoughts."-Genzaburo Yoshino, How Do You Live?
"We must not forget to make a habit of modesty and restraint in our lives."-Genzaburo Yoshino, How Do You Live?
"You take many things from the world, but I wonder what you will give back in return?"-Genzaburo Yoshino, How Do You Live?
"There is nothing more beautiful than people nurturing goodwill toward their fellow beings."-Genzaburo Yoshino, How Do You Live?
25. The Children's Crusade
By: Marcel Schwob
3.89
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
“I’ve just read Marcel Schwob’s The Children’s Crusade twice over, with deep admiration and reveren… read more
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- short stories
26. Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America
By: Leila Philip
3.79
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times Editors' Choice NPR Science Friday Book Club Selection An intimate and revelato… read more
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27. Once and Forever: The Tales of Kenji Miyazawa
By: Kenji Miyazawa
3.90
Format: 273 pages, Paperback
It is time that Kenji Miyazawa, long recognized as a writer of genius in his own country, enjoyed t… read more
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- short story collection
- literature
- asia
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- japanese literature
- fantasy
- japan
28. Mina's Matchbox
By: Yōko Ogawa
3.85
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, here is a hypnotic, int… read more
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"Quant à l'endroit où se trouvait mon père, le jour de ses funérailles, ma mère me l'avait indiqué. C'est un peu loin, mais un jour ou l'autre nous irons le rejoindre, il n'y a pas à craindre de s'éga…"-Yōko Ogawa, Mina's Matchbox
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29. 地獄楽 12 [Jigokuraku 12]
By: Yūji Kaku
4.43
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
盤古撃破を目指す中で現れた強敵・石隠れ衆の忍シジャ。画眉丸は闘いの中で妻の存在を確信、死闘を繰り広げついに決着…!! そして盤古撃破に向けて謎多き男・山田浅ェ門十禾も動き出す――!? そんな中、本土… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
"Love makes humans petty and cruel, Full of arrogance, lacking in decorum. Suspicious and paranoid beyond reason. And though it cannot last forever, it drives humans to sacrifice all they have."-Yūji Kaku, 地獄楽 12 [Jigokuraku 12]
30. The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre
By: Cho yeeun
3.51
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
At New Seoul Park, Korea’s greatest theme park, an enigmatic man tempts visitors with a mysterious … read more
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- asia
- short stories
- fantasy
- fiction
"I couldn't help but feel empty inside as I thought about all the moments of my life fading away like that. What was I, after all, if all the memories that made me up were gone?"-Cho yeeun, The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre
31. Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel
By: Yōko Tawada
3.76
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
A moving story about friendship, illness, and the poetry of Paul Celan, described as “bewitching” (… read more
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- japanese literature
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