16 best-selling fiction books like Cupa de cleştar by Yasushi Inoue

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Cupa de cleştar

By: Yasushi Inoue

4.16

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Cele opt proze cuprinse în acest volum oferă, prin varietatea lor, o imagine reprezentativă a unive…

If you liked the fiction plot in Cupa de cleştar by Yasushi Inoue , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. Black Swan Green

By: David Mitchell

3.97

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

From award-winning writer David Mitchell comes a sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of… read more

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  • fiction
"Trees're always a relief, after people."

-David Mitchell, Black Swan Green

"His skin was blotched as a dying banana."

-David Mitchell, Black Swan Green

"Poems are lenses, mirrors, and X-ray machines."

-David Mitchell, Black Swan Green

"The song instantly insisted it'd never existed."

-David Mitchell, Black Swan Green

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2. The Rosary

By: Florence L. Barclay

4.01

Format: 380 pages, Hardcover

"The Rosary" is a beautiful love story. Gareth Dalmain falls in love with the Honorable Jane Champi… read more

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  • fiction
"She had once been described, by one who saw below the surface, as a perfectly beautiful woman in an absolutely plain shell."

-Florence L. Barclay, The Rosary

"I suddenly became conscious that, for the first time in my whole life, I was essential to somebody. I could not enter a room without realising that he was instantly aware of my presence; I could not …"

-Florence L. Barclay, The Rosary

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3. A Pale View of Hills

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

3.79

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: This a previously-published edition of ISBN 9780571225378. In his highly acclaim… read more

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  • fiction
  • japanese literature
  • japan
"Sisters are supposed to be people you’re close to, aren’t they. You may not like them much, but you’re still close to them."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills

"It doesn’t matter how old someone is, it’s what they’ve experienced that counts. People can get to be a hundred and not experience a thing."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills

"I’ve come to appreciate cooking over the years. It’s an art, I’m convinced of it, just as noble as painting or poetry. It’s not appreciated simply because the product disappears so quickly"

-Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills

"The Americans, they never understood the way things were in Japan. Not for one moment have they understood. Their ways may be fine for Americans, but in Japan things are different, very different."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills

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4. The Master of Go

By: Yasunari Kawabata , Edward G. Seidensticker

3.82

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

From the Nobel Prize-winning author and acclaimed writer of Thousand Cranes comes the luminous chro… read more

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  • fiction
  • japanese literature
  • japan
"We were watching a battle, but it took clean forms."

-Yasunari Kawabata, The Master of Go

"From the way of Go the beauty of Japan and the Orient had fled. Everything had become science and regulation."

-Yasunari Kawabata, The Master of Go

"En el mundo de los juegos de competencia, los espectadores no pueden evitar erigir héroes más allá de los reales poderes que tengan sus elegidos."

-Yasunari Kawabata, The Master of Go

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5. South of the Border, West of the Sun

By: Haruki Murakami , Philip Gabriel

3.86

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition here. Growing up in the suburbs of post-war Japan, it seemed to Hajime t… read more

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  • fiction
  • japanese literature
  • japan
"Is that what you see in my eyes, that you know nothing about me?"

-Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

"But you know Hajime, some feelings cause us pain because they remain."

-Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

"Loving her, and being loved, was the only way I could hold myself together."

-Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

"What we needed were not words and promises but the steady accumulation of small realities."

-Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

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6. Kinshu: Autumn Brocade

By: Teru Miyamoto , Roger K. Thomas

4.17

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Life, death, karma--these interwoven themes form the heart of this lyrical novel in letters, Kinshu… read more

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  • fiction
  • japanese literature
  • japan
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7. The Humbling

By: Philip Roth

3.54

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Everything is over for Simon Axler, the protagonist of Philip Roth's startling new book. One of the… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Faust: First Part by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Peter Salm

8. Faust: First Part

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Peter Salm

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legenda… read more

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  • fiction
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9. Jo confesso

By: Jaume Cabré , None , None

3.59

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Si la botiga d'antiguitats de la familia es tot un univers per al petit Adria, el despatx del seu p… read more

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  • fiction
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10. The Holy Sinner

By: Thomas Mann

3.57

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

THE BOOK: An epic arch sinfulness, The Holy Sinner is one of Thomas Mann's great works. From the in… read more

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  • fiction
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11. The Painted Veil

By: W. Somerset Maugham

3.44

Format: 336 pages,

Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, The Painted Veilis the story of the beautiful, but love-… read more

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12. number9dream

By: David Mitchell

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

David Mitchell follows his eerily precocious, globe-striding first novel, Ghostwritten, with a work… read more

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  • fiction
  • japan
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13. 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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  • fiction
  • japanese literature
  • japan
"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

14. La casa de las bellas durmientes

By: Yasunari Kawabata , None

4.07

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

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15. The Sound of the Mountain

By: Yasunari Kawabata , Edward G. Seidensticker

4.00

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

By day Ogata Shingo is troubled by small failures of memory. At night he hears a distant rumble fro… read more

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16. Calea Victoriei

By: Cezar Petrescu

4.33

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Nu in latura caracterologica sta insa meritul romanului lui Cezar Petrescu. In datele lor interne, … read more

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17. Conjugal Love

By: Alberto Moravia , Marina Harss

4.90

Format: None pages, Paperback

To begin with I'd like to talk about my wife. To love means, in addition to many other things, to d… read more

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18. 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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  • fiction
  • 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

19. 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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20. Far from the Madding Crowd

By: Thomas Hardy , Rosemarie Morgan , Shannon Russell

3.73

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . Independent and spirited Bathsh… read more

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21. The Bamboo Sword: And Other Samurai Tales

By: Shuhei Fujisawa

3.71

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

The eight stories that comprise this collection were all written in the 1970s and 80s, yet vividly … read more

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22. Zuleiha deschide ochii

By: Guzel Yakhina

4.39

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

Marea revelație a literaturii ruse din 2015, romanul Zuleiha deschide ochii, salutat cu entuziasm l… read more

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  • fiction
"„Inima e sălașul sentimentelor, nu al rațiuni"

-Guzel Yakhina, Zuleiha deschide ochii

"Inima e sălașul sentimentelor, nu al rațiunii."

-Guzel Yakhina, Zuleiha deschide ochii

"Мысли – не речка, плотиной не перегородишь; пусть текут."

-Guzel Yakhina, Zuleiha deschide ochii

"Метлой по спине – это не больно. Почти как веником. Зулейха лежит смирно, как и велел муж, только вздрагивает и царапает ногтями лэукэ при каждом ударе, – поэтому бьет он недолго. Быстро остывает. Вс…"

-Guzel Yakhina, Zuleiha deschide ochii

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23. De două mii de ani; Cum am devenit huligan

By: Mihail Sebastian

4.34

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

Reperele originalitatii prezentului volum sunt de cautat in armonizarea recesiva a partilor care il… read more

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24. Scrisorile «divinei marchize»

By: Marie de Rabutin-Chantal de Sévigné

3.80

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

„Scrisorile «divinei marchize» ocupă un loc cu totul particular printre capodoperele clasicismului … read more

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25. Cupa de cleştar

By: Yasushi Inoue

4.16

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Cele opt proze cuprinse în acest volum oferă, prin varietatea lor, o imagine reprezentativă a unive… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • japanese literature
  • japan
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26. Narcotice în cultura română

By: Andrei Oișteanu

4.68

Format: 700 pages, Paperback

„N-am putut sa las din mina cartea lui Andrei Oisteanu. Am aflat din ea ca multi autori din cultura… read more

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7 Top japanese literature books like Cupa de cleştar by Yasushi Inoue

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A Pale View of Hills

Kazuo Ishiguro

3.79

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The Master of Go

Yasunari Kawabata , Edward G. Seidensticker

3.82

Transform Your Habits

South of the Border, West of the Sun

Haruki Murakami , Philip Gabriel

3.86

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Kinshu: Autumn Brocade

Teru Miyamoto , Roger K. Thomas

4.17

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Wilderness Tips

Margaret Atwood

3.82

Transform Your Habits

Whit

Iain Banks

3.85

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Vurt (Vurt, #1)

Lauren Beukes , Jeff Noon

4.04

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Triburbia

Karl Taro Greenfeld

3.82

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