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Almost Transparent Blue
Ryu Murakami
Translated by Nancy Andrew
Price:$13.95
"A Japanese mix of A Clockwork Orange and L'Etranger." —Newsweek
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Coin Locker Babies
Ryu Murakami
Translated by Stephen Snyder
Price:$18.00
"Devilish and brilliant." —Oliver Stone, filmmaker
"A knockout... a great big pulsating parable." —Washington Post
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In the Miso Soup
Ryu Murakami
Translated by Ralph F. McCarthy
Price:$22.95
"Murakami has won some nice press for his unflinching look at violence and the underbelly of modern Japan. His latest oozes darkness and ambiguity and reads like a cross-Pacific bullet train." —Entertainment Weekly
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Inside and other short fiction
Japanese Women by Japanese Women
Tamaki Daido, Rio Shimamoto,
Yuzuki Muroi, Shungiku Uchida
Chiya Fujino, Amy Yamada,
Junko Hasegawa, Nobuko Takagi
Foreword by Ruth Ozeki
Jacket Art by Tomoko Sawada
Price:$22.95
"Bold stories by and about Japanese women who scorn the veneer of politesse and powder..." —Elle Magazine
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The Gourmet Club
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
Translated by Anthony H. Chambers,
Paul McCarthy
Price:$15.00
"His fiction continues to draw us in through an intricate, masterly grasp of the psychology of male desire.... Excellent translators." —The Village Voice
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House of the Sleeping Beauties
and other stories
Yasunari Kawabata
Translated by Edward Seidensticker
Price:$16.00
Nobel prize-winning author Yasunari Kawabata is noted for his combination of a traditional Japanese aesthetic with modernist, often surreal trends. In these three tales, superbly translated by Edward Seidensticker, erotic fantasy is underlaid with longing and memories of past loves.
"An esoteric masterpiece." —Yukio Mishima
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The Mother of Dreams
Portrayals of Women in Modern Japanese Fiction
Edited by Makoto Ueda
Price:$17.00
A new collection of short stories by Japan's best writers, including novelist Kawabata Yasunari, Ariyoshi Sawako, and Abe Kobo, on women—"women who have a dignity... but pay the price for it." —New York Times Book Review
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The Silent Cry
Kenzaburo Oe
Translated by John Bester
Price:$14.00
"Major feat of the imagination." —The Times
"A formidable scholar and intellectual whose novels express the moral soul-searching of postwar Japan." —The Boston Globe
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