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A literary sensation and runaway bestseller in hardcover, this brilliant debut novel offers, with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism, the ... More

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Jeanne Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 when her family was uprooted from their home and sent to live at Manzanar internment camp. This is the ... More

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Carrying a photograph of the man she is to marry but has yet to meet, young Hana Omiya arrives in San Francisco, California, in 1917, one of several ... More

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Aomame betrayed again, she committed a murder and disappeared. The detective has to find her. While, Aomame and Tengo, wishing each other in the ... More

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An epic and breathtaking saga that spans generations, "The Scent of Sake" tells the stunning story of a woman's struggles to maintain her family's ... More

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As a young man, Haruki Murakami played records and mixed drinnks at his Tokyo jazz club, "Peter Cat", then wrote at the kitchen table until the sun ... More

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This volume has a dual purpose. It aims to define the state of Japanese literary studies in the field of women's writing and to present cross ... More

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In 1929, a poor fisherman sells his nine-year-old daughter to an elite geisha house in Kyoto. So begins the remarkable first-person account of how ... More

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Lurid depictions of sex and impotence, themes of emperor worship and violence, the use of realism and myth--these characterize the fiction of Mishima ... More

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Ooka Shohei (1909-88) was a distinguished member of the Japanese literary establishment for more than four decades following the end of the Pacific ... More

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Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit brings a sophisticated and graceful method of analysis to this English translation of her book on the "shishosetsu," one ... More

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This is a seductive and stunningly evocative epic on an intimate scale, which tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl. Summoning up more than ... More

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After their son is kidnapped, Samurai detective Sano Ichiro and his wife, Reiko, set off on a desperate search, only to find themselves caught up in ... More

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A thirteen-year-old boy describes the poverty and discontent of eighteenth century Osaka and the world of puppeteers in which he lives.

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With a triple murder on his hands, Sano's search for a killer leads to a clash of wills with Reiko, his headstrong wife. September, 1693, and a ... More

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Japan is threatened with war and samurai are taking sides. As the blood begins to flow, Jacks warrior training is put to the ultimate test. His ... More

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In sixteenth-century Japan, Taro enlists his friends to help vanquish a dragon in hopes of winning a reward that would allow him to marry Hana, but ... More

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Only the most powerful of warriors possesses the kiai, the spirit cry that can kill a man with a scream...Sent into virtual exile to investigate a ... More

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