20 Best fiction books like Cuentos tradicionales de Japón by Kayoko Takagi

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Cuentos tradicionales de Japón

By: Kayoko Takagi

3.74

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

La presente antología -publicada ya en Alianza Editorial con el título "El espíritu del agua"- reún…

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1. Niebla

By: Miguel de Unamuno

4.05

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

Esta obra de Miguel de Unamuno es uno de los ejemplos clásicos más eminentes de la novela moderna. … read more

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  • fiction
"Toda ley es una ley de ritmo, y el ritmo es el amor."

-Miguel de Unamuno, Niebla

"El amor precede al conocimiento, y éste mata a aquél."

-Miguel de Unamuno, Niebla

"Because Augustus was not a hiker, but a walker of life"

-Miguel de Unamuno, Niebla

"Hasta que se llora de veras no se sabe si se tiene o no alma."

-Miguel de Unamuno, Niebla

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2. After the Quake

By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin

3.77

Format: 147 pages, Paperback

1995年1月、地震はすべてを一瞬のうちに壊滅させた。そして2月、流木が燃える冬の海岸で、あるいは、小箱を携えた男が向かった釧路で、かえるくんが地底でみみずくんと闘う東京で、世界はしずかに共振をはじ… read more

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  • fiction
  • japanese literature
  • japan
"Are you prepared to die?"

-Haruki Murakami, After the Quake

"This life is nothing but a short, painful dream."

-Haruki Murakami, After the Quake

"Words left their mouths to hang frozen in midair."

-Haruki Murakami, After the Quake

"Opera lovers may be the narrowest people in the world."

-Haruki Murakami, After the Quake

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3. The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle

By: Baltasar Gracián , Christopher Maurer

4.18

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The remarkable best-seller -- a long-lost, 300-year-old book of wisdom on how to live successfully … read more

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"Be first the master of yourself"

-Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle

"Rivalry discovers that courtesy overlooks."

-Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle

"A beautiful woman should break her mirror early."

-Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle

"The best skill at cards is knowing when to discard."

-Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle

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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. El Llano en llamas

By: Juan Rulfo

4.47

Format: None pages,

'The Burning Plain and Other Stories consists of fifteen pieces ranging from brief anecdotes, casua… read more

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  • fiction
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6. I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)

By: Robert Graves

3.44

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54. Set in the… read more

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  • fiction
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7. Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

By: Aeschylus , Patricia E. Easterling , John Harrison , Judith Affleck , None

3.83

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this se… read more

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"Every medicine is vain."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"A curse burns bright on crime."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"There is no avoidance in delay."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"In war, the first casualty is truth."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

8. The Sound of Waves

By: Yukio Mishima , Meredith Weatherby

4.57

Format: 270 pages,

Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, The Sound of Wavesis a timeless story of first love. It t… read more

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9. Japanese Fairy Tales

By: Yei Theodora Ozaki

3.22

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

English translation of 22 tales include ghouls, goblins and ogres; sea serpents and sea kings; kind… read more

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10. The Old Capital

By: Yasunari Kawabata , J. Martin Holman

3.58

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

The Old Capitalis one of the three novels cited specifically by the Nobel Committee when they award… read more

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11. A Personal Matter

By: Kenzaburō Ōe , John Nathan

4.12

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Kenzaburo Oe, the winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature, is internationally acclaimed as on… read more

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12. The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings

By: Octavio Paz , Lysander Kemp , Yara Milos

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Octavio Paz has long been acknowledged as Mexico's foremost writer and critic. In this internationa… read more

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13. Bonjour tristesse

By: Françoise Sagan

3.72

Format: 154 pages, Mass Market Paperback

(English follows French) La villa est magnifique, l'été brûlant, la Méditerranée toute proche. C… read more

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"Je serais intelligente, cultivée, un peu détachée, comme Anne."

-Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse

"Il est très vaniteux ou très peu sûr de lui, comme vous voulez."

-Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse

"Bet juk taip malonu paklusti savo impulsams, o paskui gailėtis..."

-Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse

"Et de plus, Cyril m'aimait ... cette pensée suffisait à mon euphorie."

-Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse

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14. Nada

By: Edith Grossman , Carmen Laforet

3.83

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Carmen Laforet’s Nada ranks among the most important literary works of post-Civil War Spain. Loosel… read more

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  • fiction
"You always move in the same circle of people no matter how many turns you seem to make"

-Edith Grossman, Nada

"... siempre se mueve uno en el mismo círculo de personas por más vueltas que parezca dar."

-Edith Grossman, Nada

"el interés y la estimación que inspire una persona son dos cosas que no siempre van unidas."

-Edith Grossman, Nada

"Su charla insubstancial me parecía el rumor de lluvia que se escucha con gusto y con pereza."

-Edith Grossman, Nada

15. Poema de mio Cid

By: Anonymous

3.87

Format: None pages, Paperback

Poema epico, se trata del texto mas representativo del arte de los juglares espanoles de la Edad Me… read more

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16. 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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17. 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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  • japanese literature
"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

18. The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone (The Theban Plays, #1–3)

By: Sophocles , Robert Fitzgerald , Dudley Fitts , None

5.00

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

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19. Te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas

By: Irene Solà

3.91

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Escondida entre riscos lejanos, en algún remoto lugar de las Guillerías transitado por cazadores de… read more

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  • fiction
"Aunque lo peor de todo, musitó, no es morirse. Todos nos tenemos que morir un día u otro. Lo peor es la soledad."

-Irene Solà, Te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas

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20. Permagel

By: Eva Baltasar

3.85

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

Permagel és aquella part de la terra que no es desglaça mai i és la membrana que revesteix l’heroïn… read more

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  • fiction
"Do you remember that movie we saw when we were little?"

-Eva Baltasar, Permagel

"Al cap d’un temps acabes descobrint que el límit es deixa viure, vertical com mai, a frec del no-res, i que no només és possible habitar-hi sinó que també s’hi pot créixer de maneres diferents. Si de…"

-Eva Baltasar, Permagel

"«¿Recuerdas aquella película de cuando éramos pequeñas? —empiezo—. Se titulaba La gran evasión. La vimos con papá al menos siete u ocho veces. Iba de unos aviadores americanos reclusos en un campo de…"

-Eva Baltasar, Permagel

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21. Boulder

By: Eva Baltasar

3.89

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

La protagonista d'aquesta novel·la és una dona atreta per la solitud com per un imant. Es guanya la… read more

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  • fiction
"Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adultos."

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

"Y sin embargo he descubierto que no se puede columpiar a un hijo sin sonreír. Lo he intentado y es imposible. Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adul…"

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

"I listen with all five senses, I listen to her with my entire body, with everything but my heart, which feels like it wants to thrash the hell out of me. This wasn't part of our plan. The truth is we…"

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

"But all this tunneling has opened rifts through which the captive parts of me have started to emerge. I realize that I am smoke, that the things that define me rise as they would up a chimney, probin…"

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

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22. La casa (Blackwater, #3)

By: Michael McDowell

4.19

Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition

1928, Perdido. Il clan Caskey è dilaniato dalla spietata lotta tra Mary-Love ed Elinor. Ma all'oriz… read more

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  • fiction
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23. 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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  • fiction
  • japanese literature
  • 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

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24. The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

By: Guy de Maupassant

3.89

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

Before succumbing to the insanity that ravaged his later life, Guy de Maupassant established a repu… read more

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  • fiction
"A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption."

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"Es evidente que la soledad resulta peligrosa para las mentes que piensan demasiado."

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?"

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

"Whence come those mysterious influences which change our happiness into discouragement, and our self-confidence into diffidence?"

-Guy de Maupassant, The Horla and Others: Guy de Maupassant's Best Weird Fiction and Ghost Stories: Tales of Mystery, Murder, Fantasy & Horror (Oldstyle Tales' Horror Authors)

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25. Luna llena

By: Aki Shimazaki

4.00

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

En una pequeña localidad japonesa, el matrimonio compuesto por Tetsuo y Fujiko Nire vive apacibleme… read more

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  • fiction
  • japanese literature
  • japan
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26. La Papeterie Tsubaki

By: Ito Ogawa

4.17

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

Hatoko a vingt-cinq ans et la voici de retour à Kamakura, dans la petite papeterie que lui a léguée… read more

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  • fiction
  • japanese literature
  • japan
"Mourir, c’était peut-être vivre éternellement."

-Ito Ogawa, La Papeterie Tsubaki

"Elle s'est levée. Elle était sublime. Elle était l'incarnation personnifiée de cette vieille expression qui dit qu'une femme debout a la grâce de la pivoine de Chine, celle de la pivoine arbustive qu…"

-Ito Ogawa, La Papeterie Tsubaki

"- C'est la formule secrète du bonheur, que j'ai appliquée toute ma vie, a-t-elle dit en riant. - Apprenez-la moi ! - Eh bien, il faut se dire à l'intérieur : « Brille, brille. » Tu fermes les yeux et…"

-Ito Ogawa, La Papeterie Tsubaki

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27. Tokyo Ueno Station

By: Yū Miri

3.47

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Emperor, Kazu’s life is tied by a series of coincid… read more

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  • fiction
  • japanese literature
  • japan
"There’s that sound again."

-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station

"To speak is to stumble, to hesitate, to detour and hit dead ends. To listen is straightforward. You can always just listen."

-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station

"I was always tired. There was never a time I was not tired. Not when life had its claws in me, and not when I escaped from it. I did not live with intent, I only lived. But that’s all over now."

-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station

"I used to think life was like a book: you turn the first page, and there’s the next, and as you go on turning page after page, eventually you reach the last one. But life is nothing like a story in a…"

-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station

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28. Cuentos de Chejóv (Spanish Edition)

By: Anton Chekhov

4.14

Format: 372 pages, Kindle Edition

Este ebook presenta "Cuentos de Chéjov" con un sumario dinámico y detallado.Este libro es una selec… read more

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  • fiction
"When dawn comes I'm sitting in bed with my arms around my knees and, since I have nothing to do, am trying to know myself. "Know yourself"--what splendid and useful advice; too bad the ancients never…"

-Anton Chekhov, Cuentos de Chejóv (Spanish Edition)

"April was just beginning, and after the warm spring day it turned cooler, slightly frosty, and a breath of spring could be felt in the soft, cold air. The road from the convent to town was sandy, the…"

-Anton Chekhov, Cuentos de Chejóv (Spanish Edition)

Cover of The Thebaid: Seven Against Thebes by Publius Papinius Statius

29. The Thebaid: Seven Against Thebes

By: Publius Papinius Statius

3.92

Format: 386 pages, Paperback

A classical epic of fratricide and war, the Thebaid retells the legendary conflict between the sons… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Nagori : La nostalgie de la saison qui vient de nous quitter by Ryoko Sekiguchi

30. Nagori : La nostalgie de la saison qui vient de nous quitter

By: Ryoko Sekiguchi

3.78

Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition

Nagori, littéralement « reste des vagues », qui signifie en japonais la nostalgie de la séparation,… read more

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  • japanese literature
  • japan
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31. Cuentos tradicionales de Japón

By: Kayoko Takagi

3.74

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

La presente antología -publicada ya en Alianza Editorial con el título "El espíritu del agua"- reún… read more

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  • japanese literature
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9 Best japanese literature books like Cuentos tradicionales de Japón by Kayoko Takagi

Transform Your Habits

After the Quake

Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin

3.77

Transform Your Habits

In Praise of Shadows

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

4.75

Transform Your Habits

Snow Country

Yasunari Kawabata , Edward G. Seidensticker

3.59

Transform Your Habits

The Hole

Hiroko Oyamada

3.49

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9 must-read fiction books like The Thebaid: Seven Against Thebes by Publius Papinius Statius

Transform Your Habits

Lysistrata

Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden

3.87

Transform Your Habits

The Bacchae

Euripides , Kenneth McLeish , None

3.92

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The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

Robert Fagles , Aeschylus , William Bedell Stanford

4.01

The Trojan Women

Euripides , Gilbert Murray

4.16

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