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A burden of flowers


From the acclaimed author of “Still Lives,” this novel charts the bitter struggle for justice against the might of the pan-Asian drugs cartels and a nation’s cancerous political corruption.


On a Small Bridge in Iraq



The Navidad incident : the downfall of Matías Guili


In this sweeping magical-realist epic set in the fictional south sea island republic of Navidad, Ikezawa gives his imagination free rein to reinvent the myths of twentieth-century Japan. A delegation of Japanese war veterans pays an official visit to the ex-World War II colony, only to see the Japanese flag …


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