5 must-read japanese literature books like 99 zajímavostí z Japonska by Jiří Janoš

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99 zajímavostí z Japonska

By: Jiří Janoš

3.92

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

Známá, a přece neznámá slova (Nippon, Mikado-Tennó, Fudži, Sakura, Kimono, ...), Minulost - tradice…

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1. 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

2. 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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Cover of Siege and Storm (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #2) by Leigh Bardugo

3. Siege and Storm (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #2)

By: Leigh Bardugo

3.81

Format: 435 pages, Hardcover

▶ Alternative Cover Edition #1 Darkness never dies. Hunted across the True Sea, haunted by th… read more

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"Great,"

-Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #2)

"You’re mad,"

-Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #2)

"We are alike,"

-Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #2)

"I want to kiss you,"

-Leigh Bardugo, Siege and Storm (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #2)

4. Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)

By: Leigh Bardugo

3.48

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to the world of the Grisha. After pulling off a seemingly impossible heist in the notorious… read more

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5. 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

6. Bushido: The Soul of Japan. A Classic Essay on Samurai Ethics

By: Nitobe Inazō

3.29

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The Code of the warrior. The traditional japanese text as written by Dr. Inazo Nitobe in 1904 edite… read more

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7. Náboženství Japonska: Mnoho tradic na jedné svaté cestě

By: H. Byron Earhart

3.40

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Dvacáté století bylo stoletím střetu ideologií. I japonské náboženství se často stávalo nástrojem i… read more

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8. 99 zajímavostí z Japonska

By: Jiří Janoš

3.92

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

Známá, a přece neznámá slova (Nippon, Mikado-Tennó, Fudži, Sakura, Kimono, ...), Minulost - tradice… read more

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Cover of Vějíř a meč by Vlasta Winkelhöferová

9. Vějíř a meč

By: Vlasta Winkelhöferová

3.96

Format: 389 pages, hardcover

Kniha podává čtivě psaný výklad o vývoji japonské vzdělanosti a umění od prehistorické doby až do d… read more

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6 must-read japan books like 99 zajímavostí z Japonska by Jiří Janoš

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3.99

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3.40

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Albert Camus , Matthew Ward , Stuart Gilbert , None

4.02

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4.01

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3.74

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4.06

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