japanese literature in english

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Boy


A collection of three short stories features two brothers at a school sports day, another pair of brothers who use astronomy to cope with the loss of their father, and an uncool teenage boy who meets a biker girl in Kyoto.


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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 …


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Funeral of a giraffe : seven stories



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Kitchen


Full-fledged phenomenon: a young writer of great talent and great passion whose work has quickly earned a place among the best of twentieth-century Japanese literature. Banana Yoshimoto’s Kitchen is an enchantingly original and deeply affecting book that juxtaposes two tales about mothers, transsexuality, kitchens, love, tragedy, and the terms they …


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Lemon



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Love and other stories of Yokomitsu Riichi


Short stories.


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Rabbits, crabs, etc. : stories by Japanese women


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Realm of the dead


A collection of short stories, where the lands of both the living and the dead are equally dark and mysterious worlds where logic and reality are subject to constant change and where ideas about identity and self are continually questioned.


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Still lives



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The cannery boat, and other Japanese short stories


The stories are representative of the proletarian literary movement in Japan.


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The voice and other stories


Short stories.


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The woman with the flying head and other stories


A collection of fantasy stories by Yumiko Kurahashi.


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The word book


Like the surfaces of a jagged crystal, each story in this collection shows an entirely different facet when viewed from a different angle. Playing games with the basic units of both life and fiction-the solid certainties of the self, the world around us, and the words we use to describe …


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Voices of the Pacific : a celebration of diversity : a reader’s guide to writings from Japan, China, Korea, Viet Nam, The Philippines, Pacific Islands


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We, the children of cats : stories and novellas


By turns teasing and terrifying, laconic and luminous, the stories in this anthology are drawn from sources as diverse as Borges, Nabokov, Garcia-Marquez, and traditional Japanese folklore, and yet they ultimately reside in a slyly subversive literary world that is all their own. Blending an uncompromising ethical vision with exuberant, …


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