Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness: Four Short Novels
By: Kenzaburō Ōe , John Nathan
3.88
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
These four novels display Oe's passionate and original vision. Oe was ten when American jeeps first…
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1. Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination
By: Edogawa Rampo , James B. Harris
4.05
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
Collected in this chilling volume are some of the famous Japanese mystery writer Edogawa Rampo's be… read more
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"This “thing"-Edogawa Rampo, Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination
"Why would a man become crazy if he entered a glass globe lined with a mirror? What in the name of the devil had he seen there? . . . Did he go made after taking a glance at himself reflected by a com…"-Edogawa Rampo, Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination
2. The Death of Artemio Cruz
By: Carlos Fuentes , Alfred J. MacAdam
3.86
Format: 307 pages, Paperback
Hailed as a masterpiece since its publication in 1962, The Death of Artemio Cruz is Carlos Fuentes'… read more
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"Nunca escucharás las palabras de los otros. Tendrás que vivirlas."-Carlos Fuentes, The Death of Artemio Cruz
"Vivir es traicionar a tu Dios; cada acto de la vida, cada acto que nos afirma como seres vivos, exige que se violen los mandamientos de tu Dios"-Carlos Fuentes, The Death of Artemio Cruz
"To live is to betray your God. Every act in life, every act that affirms us as living beings, requires that the commandments of your God be broken."-Carlos Fuentes, The Death of Artemio Cruz
"¿A poco no somos los meros chingones? ¿Sabes? Escoge siempre a tus amigos entre los grandes chingones, porque con ellos no hay quien te chingue a ti."-Carlos Fuentes, The Death of Artemio Cruz
3. Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)
By: Yukio Mishima , Michael Gallagher , Michael Gallagher
4.16
Format: 389 pages, Paperback
Tokyo, 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by ou… read more
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"إن جوهر أي إرادة هو الرغبة في التأثير في التاريخ"-Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)
"My happiness lies in your hands. Be careful with it, won’t you?"-Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)
"الرجال لا يفكرون إلا في المال و النساء،لقد نسوا كل ما يليق بالرجل"-Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)
"Just now I had a dream. I'll see you again. I know it. Beneath the falls."-Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)
4. Confessions of a Mask
By: Yukio Mishima
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
Confessions of a Maskis the story of an adolescent who must learn to live with the painful fact tha… read more
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5. Fires on the Plain
By: Shōhei Ōoka , Ivan Morris
4.16
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
"Written with precise skill and beautifully controlled power. The translation by Ivan Morris is out… read more
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6. Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness: Four Short Novels
By: Kenzaburō Ōe , John Nathan
3.88
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
These four novels display Oe's passionate and original vision. Oe was ten when American jeeps first… read more
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7. Le Sabotage amoureux
By: Amélie Nothomb
3.48
Format: 93 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Saviez-vous qu'un pays communiste, c'est un pays ou il y a des ventilateurs ? Que de 1972 a 1975, u… read more
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- novels
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8. The Wild Geese
By: Ōgai Mori , Sanford Goldstein , Kingo Ochiai
4.25
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
In The Wild Geese, prominent Japanese novelist Ogai Mori offers a poignant story of unfulfilled lov… read more
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9. Thirst for Love
By: Yukio Mishima , Alfred H. Marks
4.57
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
In Thirst for Love, Japan's greatest modern writer created a portrait of sexual torment and corrosi… read more
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10. Night Flight
By: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
3.00
Format: 282 pages,
In this gripping novel, Saint-Exupery tells about the brave men who piloted night mail planes from … read more
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11. The Setting Sun
By: Osamu Dazai , Donald Keene
4.36
Format: 303 pages, Paperback
The post-war period in Japan was one of immense social change as Japanese society adjusted to the s… read more
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12. House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories
By: Yasunari Kawabata , Edward G. Seidensticker , Yukio Mishima
3.58
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
Nobel prize-winning author Yasunari Kawabata is noted for his combination of a traditional Japanese… read more
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13. 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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14. The President
By: Miguel Ángel Asturias , Frances Partridge
3.62
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
Guatemalan diplomat and writer Miguel Angel Asturias (1899-1974) began this award-winning work whil… read more
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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. The Enchanted Wanderer: Selected Tales
By: V.S. Pritchett , David Magarshack , Nikolai Leskov
4.28
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Written over the course of Leskov's career, each story in The Enchanted Wandererelucidates the very… read more
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17. The Face of Another
By: Kōbō Abe , E. Dale Saunders
4.19
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
Like an elegantly chilling postscript to The Metamorphosis,this classic of postwar Japanese literat… 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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"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. Out of the Dark
By: Patrick Modiano
3.61
Format: 139 pages, Paperback
Patrick Modiano, winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, is the author of more than thirty bo… read more
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21. The Last Children of Tokyo
By: Yōko Tawada
3.43
Format: 138 pages, Paperback
Yoshiro thinks he might never die. A hundred years old and counting, he is one of Japan's many 'old… read more
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"Unable to turn back the clock, they let themselves be turned."-Yōko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo
"She's always hated good-byes and as she got older she hated them even more."-Yōko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo
"With children like this having children of their own, it was no wonder the world was full of children."-Yōko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo
"งานหลักของพวกสมาชิกสภาคือ การปรับเปลี่ยกฎหมาย กฎหมายนั้นเปลี่ยนตลอดเวลา จึงแน่นอนว่าถูกปรับเปลี่ยน . แต่ใครเปลี่ยนเพื่ออะไร เปลี่ยนอย่างไรนั้น ไม่มีการสื่อให้รู้เลย ประชาชนใช้ชีวิตจัดระเบียบตัวเองในสภาพมองไม่เห็นกฎหมาย …"-Yōko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo
