Longing and Other Stories
By: Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
3.80
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
Jun’ichirō Tanizaki is one of the most eminent Japanese writers of the twentieth century, renowned …
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1. The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
By: Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright
4.39
Format: 957 pages, Paperback
The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and Th… read more
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- literature
- classics
- 20th century
- fiction
"...every social class has its own pathology..."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"There are optical errors in time as there are in space."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
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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- literature
- short stories
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- japanese literature
- asian literature
- japan
"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
3. The Tokyo Zodiac Murders
By: Sōji Shimada , Shika MacKenzie , Ross MacKenzie
3.87
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
Astrologer, fortuneteller, and self-styled detective Kiyoshi Mitarai must in one week solve a myste… read more
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- japan
- asia
- fiction
- japanese literature
"Art is not to copy the work of another; real art exists only in difference."-Sōji Shimada, The Tokyo Zodiac Murders
"I'm a huge fan of mysteries; in fact, they're almost an addiction. If a week goes by without reading a mystery, I suffer withdrawal symptoms. Then I wander around like I'm sleepwalking and wake up in…"-Sōji Shimada, The Tokyo Zodiac Murders
4. In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time, #2)
By: Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , James Grieve
4.35
Format: 26 pages, Paperback
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Floweris Proust's spectacular dissection of male and female adolesc… read more
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- literature
- classics
- 20th century
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5. Inspector Imanishi Investigates
By: Seichō Matsumoto , Beth Cary
4.08
Format: 234 pages,
In a police procedural by Japan's foremost master of mystery, Inspector Imanishi Eitaro, a typicall… read more
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- japanese literature
- fiction
- japan
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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- historical fiction
- asian literature
- 20th century
- japanese literature
- japan
"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. Sun and Steel
By: Yukio Mishima , John Bester
4.57
Format: 270 pages, Paperback, Paper Dust Jacket
In this fascinating document, one of Japan's best known-and controversial-writers created what migh… read more
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8. Sweet Thursday (Cannery Row, #2)
By: John Steinbeck , Robert DeMott
4.11
Format: 249 pages, Paperback
In Monterey, on the California coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesda… read more
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"Und keine Frau lässt sich gern vom Mittelpunkt der Bühne verdrängen, schon gar nicht durch einen Tintenfisch."-John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday (Cannery Row, #2)
"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it."-John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday (Cannery Row, #2)
"The doctrine of our time is that man can't get along without a whole hell of a lot of stuff. You may not be preaching it, but you're living treason."-John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday (Cannery Row, #2)
"Auf dem Kopf hatte er einen Strohhut mit zwei Löchern in der Krempe, die vermuten ließen, dass der Hut ehemals die Kopfbedeckung eines Pferes gewesen war."-John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday (Cannery Row, #2)
9. Vladivostok Circus
By: Elisa Shua Dusapin
3.49
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A Vladivostok, dans l'enceinte désertée d'un cirque entre deux saisons, un trio s'entraîne à la bar… read more
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- fiction
10. The Hole
By: Hiroko Oyamada
3.49
Format: 92 pages, Paperback
Asa’s husband is transferring jobs, and his new office is located near his family’s home in the cou… read more
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- asian literature
- japanese literature
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- japan
"I moved out here with my husband."-Hiroko Oyamada, The Hole
"It's just, families are strange things, aren't they? You have this couple: one man, one woman. A male and a female, if you will. They mate, and why? To leave children behind. And what are the childre…"-Hiroko Oyamada, The Hole
"Abrí la ventana y oí a las cigarras cantar. No sé si era porque estaba en el campo y había muchos árboles o por la influencia del clima de ese año, pero nunca las había oído con tanta intensidad. Era…"-Hiroko Oyamada, The Hole
11. Untypical: How the World Isn’t Built for Autistic People and What We Should All Do About it
By: Pete Wharmby
4.35
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
It’s time to remake the world – the ground-breaking book on what steps we should all be taking for … read more
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"By the time I entered education in the late 1980s, schools were about as well adapted for my neurotype as a set of stairs is adapted for the use by a Dalek."-Pete Wharmby, Untypical: How the World Isn’t Built for Autistic People and What We Should All Do About it
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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- literature
- asia
- 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. The Flowers of Buffoonery
By: Osamu Dazai
3.83
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanitarium where Yozo Oba—the narrator of No Longer Hu… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- japanese literature
- asian literature
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"But in my softness I find peace, however fleeting."-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery
"Hacían reír a otros. Querían provocar la risa en otros a cualquier precio, incluso a costa de su propio dolor."-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery
"It was only natural for Yozo to vacillate when asked about the reason behind his suicide – it was everything to him."-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery
"The next morning was peaceful and clear. The sea was calm. White smoke from the volcano on Oshima, just above the horizon, drifted up into the sky. Never mind. I hate describing scenery."-Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery
14. A Woman of Pleasure
By: Kiyoko Murata
3.86
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
“Even though A Woman of Pleasure exposes the brutal life of sex workers, a dynamic optimism runs th… read more
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15. Dead-End Memories: Stories
By: Banana Yoshimoto
3.90
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Japan's internationally celebrated master storyteller returns with five stories of women on their w… read more
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- short stories
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"There was a candor about him I noticed in people whose parents had given them something unconditional and absolute growing up."-Banana Yoshimoto, Dead-End Memories: Stories
"Time simply floated open and started to expand. Time held the two of us in light, inside a space so vast it might have reached the heavens, and turned eternal."-Banana Yoshimoto, Dead-End Memories: Stories
"Anyone seeing us would have thought we were newlyweds, or a nice cohabiting couple. But we were only two people, a little regretful, and soon to part. We were having so much fun. It made me sad."-Banana Yoshimoto, Dead-End Memories: Stories
"The words I read in books seemed to strike me more deeply, and with my senses sharpened by grief, I noticed the glittering transition of the seasons as clearly as if I held the grief in the palm of m…"-Banana Yoshimoto, Dead-End Memories: Stories
16. The Vigilante
By: John Steinbeck
3.50
Format: 55 pages, Paperback
'Everything was dead, everything unreal; the dark mob was made up of stiff lay-figures' One of A… read more
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- 20th century
17. Jezebel
By: Megan Barnard
3.97
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
With a bold voice reminiscent of Madeline Miller’s Circe, a stunning reimagining of the story of a … read more
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- historical fiction
18. Fox Tales
By: Tomihiko Morimi
3.54
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A collection of four spooky tales for the modern era, all tied to a certain Kyoto curio shop. A bas… read more
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19. The Art of Destiny (War Arts, #2)
By: Wesley Chu
4.16
Format: 651 pages, Hardcover
Once there was a prophecy that a chosen one would rise to defeat the Eternal Khan, an immortal god-… read more
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"May you still experience more dreams than memories."-Wesley Chu, The Art of Destiny (War Arts, #2)
20. Longing and Other Stories
By: Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
3.80
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
Jun’ichirō Tanizaki is one of the most eminent Japanese writers of the twentieth century, renowned … read more
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- asian literature
- 20th century
- japanese literature
- japan
21. Odd Spirits (The Summoner's Circle, #0.5)
By: S.T. Gibson
3.60
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Learn more about the characters from The Sunday Times bestselling author S.T. Gibson's Evocation in… read more
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