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Laughing wolf



Shanghai : a novel



The temple of the wild geese ; and Bamboo dolls of Echizen : two novellas


Two elaborate tales written in the early 1960s by the Japanese author Tsutomu Mizukami (1919-2004) explore volcanic oedipal urges lurking just below the surface of unlikely love triangles. In The Temple of the Wild Geese, set at a Zen Buddhist monastery in the mountains, Jinen, an unhappy, disfigured and lonely …


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