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Wonderful though he is, there's far more to Japanese literature than Haruki Murakami. We've picked out some of the finest novels available in translation to give you a taste of what Japanese writers have to offer, from tales of traditional Japan by Yukio Mishimi and Murasaki Shikibu to the surrealism of Kobo Abe and Banana Yoshimoto.
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Yasunari Kawabata; Edward G.... Shimamura is tired of the bustling city. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the west coast of Japan, to meet with a geisha he believes... | Jun'ichiro Tanizaki; Edward G.... Tells the story of four sisters, and the declining fortunes of a traditional Japanese family. This title presents a loving and nostalgic recreation of the sumptuous, intricate upper-class life of... |
Ryunosuke Akutagawa; Haruki Murakami;... Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan's foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. This work features... | Kobo Abe; Kaori Nagai The narrator is a scientist hideously deformed in a laboratory accident - a man who has lost his face and, with it, connection to other people. Even his wife is... |
Koushun Takami "Top of the class" now has a whole new meaning ... | Ryu Murakami; Ralph McCarthy It's just before New Year, and Frank, an overweight American tourist, has hired Kenji to take him on a guided tour of Tokyo's nightlife. But, Frank's behaviour is so odd... |
Yukio Mishima Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father, Mizoguchi becomes a hopeless stutterer. Taunted by his schoolmates... | Kenzaburo Oe Two brothers, Takashi and Mitsu, return from Tokyo to the village of their childhood. Selling their family home leads them to an inescapable confrontation with their family history. |
Natsume Soseki Deals with the friendship between a young man and an enigmatic elder whom he calls Sensei. | Natsuo Kirino In a suburb on the outskirts of Tokyo, four girls drift through tedious summer school classes. Then Toshi's next-door neighbour is found brutally murdered and the girls suspect Worm, the... |
Taichi Yamada; Wayne P. Lammers TV scriptwriter Harada returns one night to the dilapidated downtown district of Tokyo where he grew up. There, at the theatre, he meets a likable man who looks exactly like... | Yasutaka Tsutsui; David Karashima One of Tsutsui's best-known and most popular works in his native Japan, The Girl Who Leapt through Time is the story of fifteen-year-old schoolgirl Kazuko, who accidentally discovers that she... |
Shusaku Endo; Francis Mathy Gaston Bonaparte, a young Frenchman, visits Tokyo to stay with his pen-friend Takamori. His appearance is a bitter disappointment to his new friends and his behaviour causes them acute embarrassment. | Junichi Watanabe; Deborah Stuhr... The sudden thought reverberated to the centre of Gin's being. It filled the emptiness in her nineteen-year-old heart, that of a girl whose marriage had failed and who was faced... |
Kanoko Okamoto; David Mitchell; J.... Obsession and desire swirl through these two novellas by Kanoko Okamato, as she describes Japanese society poised in a moment of peace before the world was torn apart by war. | Shonagon, Sei; McKinney, Meredith A translation of the idiosyncratic diary of a C10 court lady in Heian Japan. Along with the "Tale of Genji", it is one of the major Japanese classics. |