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| Author: | Title: | Description: |
|---|---|---|
| Agawa, Hiroyuki | Burial in the clouds | A powerful novel of war, loyalty, and sacrifice. |
| Japanese: Translations into English Price: £10.99 | ||
| Anonymous | The tales of Ise | A timeless classic, known since the Middle Ages, an anonymous tenth-century collection of Japanese poems and prose. |
| Japanese: Translations into English Price: £10.99 | ||
| Hearn, L. | Kokoro: Hints and echoes of Japanese inner life | A famous book of 15 essays about the inner spiritual life of Japan. It is Hearn's genius to have perceived what was quintessentially Japanese about Japan, and to have presented his findings so artistically to the West. |
| Japanese: Translations into English Price: £11.99 | ||
| Hearn, L. | Kwaidan: Stories and studies of strange things | Known primarily as an early interpreter of Japanese culture and customs, the famous Lagcadio Hearn also wrote ghost stories - "delicate, transparent, ghostly sketches" - about his adopted land. |
| Japanese: Translations into English Price: £10.99 | ||
| Kanehara, H. | Snakes and earrings | A shocking and explicit story about obsessive love and Japanese youth counter-culture that sold over a million copies in Japan. |
| Japanese: Translations into English Price: £5.99 | ||
| Basho, M. | A haiku journey. Basho's the narrow road to a far province | Illustrated, contains parallel texts. |
| Japanese: Translations into English Price: £9.99 | ||
| Michio Takeyama | Harp of Burma | |
| Japanese: Translations into English Price: £9.99 | ||
| Various | Modern Japanese stories: An anthology | A collection of the finest of modern short stories. |
| Japanese: Translations into English Price: £12.99 | ||
| Murakami, Ryu | 69 (Sixty-nine) | |
| Japanese: Translations into English Price: £7.99 | ||
| Murakami, Ryu | Almost transparent blue | |
| Japanese: Translations into English Price: £8.99 | ||
| Mori, O. | Vita Sexualis | Beyond being a poignant account of one boy's coming of age, this novel is also an important record of Japan's moral struggles during the cultural upheaval of the last years of the Meiji era. |
| Japanese: Translations into English Price: £9.99 | ||
| Osamu Dazai | Crackling mountains and other stories | |
| Japanese: Translations into English Price: £9.99 | ||
| Ryunosuke Akutagawa | Rashomon and other stories | |
| Japanese: Translations into English Price: £9.99 | ||
| Ryunosuke Akutagawa | Rashomon and seventeen other stories | A new translation by Jay Rubin, with an introduction by Haruki Murakami. |
| Japanese: Translations into English Price: £9.99 | ||
| Saikaku, I. | Five women who loved love: Amorous tales from 17-th century Japan | First published in 1686, this collection of five charming novellas is a classic. |
| Japanese: Translations into English Price: £9.99 | ||
| Arioshi, S. | The doctor's wife | From one of Japan's best women writers, an award-winning novel of great power and precision. |
| Japanese: Translations into English Price: £9.99 | ||
| Shikibu, Murasaki | The tale of Genji | Written centuries before the time of Shakespeare and even Chaucer, "The tale of Genji" marks the birth of the novel - and after more than a millenium, this seminal work continues to enchant readers throughout the world. |
| Japanese: Translations into English Price: £9.99 | ||
| Shuhei Fujisawa | The bamboo sword and Other samurai tales | |
| Japanese: Translations into English Price: £12.99 | ||
| Natsume, S. | I am a cat | A complete edition |
| Japanese: Translations into English Price: £14.99 | ||
| Soseki Natsume | Botchan | |
| Japanese: Translations into English Price: £9.99 | ||
| Soseki Natsume | Ten nights of dream. Hearing things. The heredity of taste | |
| Japanese: Translations into English Price: £10.99 | ||
| Yukio Mishima | Acts of worship: Seven stories | |
| Japanese: Translations into English Price: £10.99 | ||
| Yukio Mishima | Sun and steel | |
| Japanese: Translations into English Price: £9.99 | ||
