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Crystal silence

It is 2071, and Mars is being slowly terraformed by many nations often cooperating in an uneasy truce that reflects tensions back on Earth.

Dance dance dance : a novel

He burst upon the international scene with the wildly acclaimed A Wild Sheep Chase. He quickly came to represent the quirky voice of a new generation of Japanese writers. Now Haruki Murakami gives us his wittiest, boldest, most daring work to date. Dance dance dance continues the extraordinary adventure of …

Dark water

A collection of horror short stories from the acclaimed author of Ring and Spiral. These spooky stories share the sea as a theme.

Dazai Osamu, selected stories and sketches

Death and the flower

Death and the Flower is a collection of six short stories centered on the themes of family and peril. The title is derived from a Keith Jarrett album of the same name.

Death in midsummer, and other stories.

Death sentences

A young poet, Who May, pens one disturbing poem after another until he creates a poem that can kill, which sparks a “magic poem plague” when copies are mailed to all of his friends.

Deep river

In India, four Japanese tourists converge on the River Ganges in search of absolution. The novel probes their consciences, from Isobe, grieving the death of the wife he ignored in life, to Kugachi, haunted by wartime memories of a man who saved his life by eating human flesh, then drank …

Diary of a mad old man

Diary of a Mad Old Man records, with alternating humor and sadness, seventy-seven-year-old Utsugi’s discovery that even his stroke-ravaged body still contains a raging libido, especially in the unwitting presence of his chic, mysterious daughter-in-law.

Digital geishas and talking frogs : the best 21st century short stories from Japan

This collection of short stories features the most up-to-date and exciting writing form the most popular and celebrated authors in Japan today. These wildly imaginative and boundary-bursting stories reveal fascinating and unexpected personal responses to the changes raging through today’s Japan. Along with some of the world’s most renowned Japanese …

Distant thunder : a novel of contemporary Japan

Set in rural Japan at the time of the bubble economy, the book tells of a farming village affected by corruption, greed and urbanization.

Domesday

The Dome. It happens in an instant. Like a thunderclap it appears over the modern Japanese utopia. In one short moment the high-rise paradise is transformed into a gruesome hell. For those few who survive the initial onslaught of mysterious angels spawned by the Dome’s walls, life becomes a constant …

During the rains & Flowers in the shade : two novellas

Early modern Japanese literature : an anthology, 1600-1900

This unique anthology is the first representative collection of Japanese literature from one of the most creative periods in Japanese culture, known variously as the Edo or the Tokugawa. It includes a wide range of fiction, poetry, and drama, and also essays, literary criticism, folk stories, and other noncanonical works …

Early modern Japanese literature : an anthology, 1600-1900, abridged

This unique anthology is the first representative collection of Japanese literature from one of the most creative periods in Japanese culture, known variously as the Edo or the Tokugawa. It includes a wide range of fiction, poetry, and drama, and also essays, literary criticism, folk stories, and other noncanonical works …

Edge

A massive earthquake that thrusts California into the sea is just the beginning of the horrors that unfold as quantum physics’ instability rears its head.

Enma : the immortal

Evening clouds

A “snapshot” of daily life in 1960s Tokyo.