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Murder in the Red Chamber

My favorite horror story

Short stories.

Naoko

Expertly interweaving the real and the unreal, Naoko involves a working man, Heisuke, whose wife dies in a bus accident. His young daughter survives, but seems to be inhabited by her mother’s personality.

Naomi

Chronicles the obsessive love of Joji, an engineer in his thirties, for a fifteen-year-old bar hostess who reminds him of Mary Pickford.

Napoleon crazy and other stories

Short stories.

New tales of tono.

Night of the Milky Way railway

Giovanni and his friend Campanella, who is dead from drowning, travel on a celestial railway which is a ferry of souls journeying to the afterlife.

Nip the buds, shoot the kids

In Japan during World War II a group of boys who are evacuated to the country take over a village when the inhabitants flee a plague. The novel describes the way the boys administer the village-breaking into homes for food, burying the dead, caring for the sick-and what happens when …

No longer human

Norwegian wood

This stunning and elegiac novel by the author of the internationally acclaimed Wind-Up Bird Chronicle has sold over 4 million copies in Japan and is now available to American audiences for the first time. It is sure to be a literary event. Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college …

Norwegian wood.

Not a song like any other : an anthology of writings by Mori Ogai

Now you’re one of us

In the tradition of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca and Ira Levin’s Rosemary’s Baby, here is a new classic about the bride who’s no longer sure what to think. All families have their own rituals, secrets, and credos, like a miniature religious cult; these quirks may elicit the mirth or mild …

Nowaki

NP

The lives of people in both straight and lesbian relationships, all with connections to a book entitled NP. They include the author’s children and the translator’s mistress. Written by one of Japan’s leading pop writers.

Okei : a girl from the provinces

Set in the midst of samurai warfare in the mountainous region of Aizu in the late 19th century, ‘Okei’ recounts the coming of age of a young peasant girl, who falls desperately in love with the fierce warrior Sanasuma Kingo, only to learn that the world she inhabits has no …

Once and forever : the tales of Kenji Miyazawa

The magic of Miyazawa’s tales reaches out to people of all ages and lands. The sophisticated reader can savor them consciously as literature, while the younger reader can delight in them as imaginative stories that comment on and deepen his own experience. The underlying themes are universal, but the forms …

Other voices, other vistas : short stories from Africa, China, India, Japan, and Latin America

Presents twenty-five contemporary stories by authors from countries and cultures around the world, including selections by Yasunari Kawabata, Yukio Mishima, Yuko Tsushima, Kobo Abe, Sawako Ariyoshi, and others.