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The great fire
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Shirley Hazzard |
In war-torn Asia and stricken Europe, men and women, still young but veterans of harsh experience, must reinvent their lives and expectations, and learn from their past, to dream again. Some will ful… |
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The floating world
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Cynthia Gralla |
"Liza leaves her Ivy League life behind and escapes to Tokyo, a place where art, politics, and sex seep into each other, and the irradiated ghosts of World War II pulse beneath the neon nightlife. Sh… |
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The changeling
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Kenzaburō Ōe |
Late in his life, writer Kogito Choko reconnects with his estranged friend, the filmmaker Goro Hanawa. Goro's subsequent suicide causes Kogito to examine and reexamine Goro's life for clues that will… |
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One hundred million hearts
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Kerri Sakamoto |
"From the award-winning author of The Electrical Field comes this riveting story of love, guilt, and complicity in the context of war. Miyo and her father, Masao, live a reclusive life together in To… |
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ねじまき鳥クロニクル
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村上春樹 |
Japan’s most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disi… |
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Idoru
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William Gibson |
From first page Berkley paperback September 1997:
**21st century Tokyo, after the millennial quake. Is something different here, in the very nature of reality? Or is it that something violently … |
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An Artist of the Floating World
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Kazuo Ishiguro |
As Japan rebuilds her cities after the calamity of World War II, the celebrated painter Masuji Ono should be enjoying a tranquil retirement. But as his memories continually return to a life and caree… |
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The love we share without knowing
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Christopher Barzak |
In this haunting, richly woven novel of modern life in Japan, the author of the acclaimed debut One for Sorrow explores the ties that bind humanity across the deepest divides. Here is a Murakamiesque… |
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