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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Masumiyet müzesi	Rafael Carpintero;,Orhan Pamuk	"It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn't know it." So begins the new novel, his first since winning the Nobel Prize, from the universally acclaimed author of Snow and My Name Is Red.It…	OL1019581W
Rouse up o young men of the new age!	Kenzaburō Ōe	"K is a famous writer living in Tokyo with his wife and three children, the oldest of whom was born with a brain anomaly that has left him mentally disabled. A highly cerebral man who often retreats …	OL10339365W
Children of the alley	Naguib Mahfouz	The tale of a Mafia-like don in Egypt. He lives in a mansion in Cairo, uphill at the end of an alley whose inhabitants he exploits. He is the patriarch of a large family whose wealth comes from deali…	OL10355958W
The grandmother's tale and selected stories	Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan	Characters include a storyteller whose magical source of tales dries up, a love-stricken husband who is told by astrologers he must sleep with a prostitute to save his dying wife, a pampered child wh…	OL1057132W
Hong lou meng	Xueqin Cao	The novel provides a detailed, episodic record of the two branches of the wealthy and aristocratic Jia (賈) clan — the Rongguo House (榮國府) and the Ningguo House (寧國府) — who reside in two large, adjace…	OL11557877W
The setting sun	Osamu Dazai	This powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions in 1956. Set in the early postwar years, it probes the destructive effectives of war and the translati…	OL15350754W
Midaq Alley	Naguib Mahfouz	Centers around the residents of one of the hustling, teeming back alleys of Cairo.	OL1599750W
رجال في الشمس	Ghassan Kanafani	>Il maturo Abu Qais, il giovane Asad e il ragazzo Marwàn, fuggiaschi dai campi profughi palestinesi, attraversano l'inferno del deserto iracheno rinchiusi dentro un'autocisterna vuota. Con la complic…	OL1603642W
1Q84 [1&2/3]	村上春樹	1984 x 1Q84	OL16533021W
色彩を持たない多崎つくると、彼の巡礼の年	村上春樹	Tsukuru Tazaki reexamines his simple life as he searches for his closest high school friends to discover why he was suddenly ostracized from their group. "Cuando Tsukuru Tazakiera adolescente, se …	OL16810121W
1Q84 [3/3]	村上春樹	W trzecim tomie tej fantastycznej powieści Murakamiego poznajemy dalsze losy Aomame i Tengo rozgrywające się w niezwykłym świecie roku 1Q84. Ona ukrywa się przed zemstą członków sekty za zamordowanie…	OL17534240W
The changeling	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…	OL17741172W
女のいない男たち	村上春樹	A collection of stories by Haruki Murakami	OL17823896W
Sound of Waves	Yukio Mishima	The Sound of Waves (潮騒 Shiosai?) is a 1954 novel by the Japanese author Yukio Mishima. It's a coming of age story detailing the maturity of protagonist Shinji and his romance with Hatsue, the beautif…	OL1845257W
騎士団長殺し	村上春樹	"The much-anticipated new novel from the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of 1Q84 and Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, Killing Commendatore is an epic tour de force…	OL19754736W
The silent cry	Kenzaburō Ōe	The Silent Cry follows two brothers who return to their ancestral home, a village in densely forested Western Japan. After decades of separation, the reunited men are each preoccupied by their own pe…	OL20042027W
Kanthapura	Raja Rao,Raja Rao	Raja Rao's first and best-known novel, Kanthapura (1938), is the story of a south Indian village named Kanthapura. The novel is narrated in the form of a purana by an old woman of the village, Achakk…	OL2318827W
一人称単数	村上春樹	The eight masterly stories in this new collection are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From nostalgic memories of youth, meditations on music and an ardent love of basebal…	OL24145490W
ねじまき鳥クロニクル	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…	OL2625412W
海辺のカフカ	村上春樹	A boy trying to escape a gruesome oedipedal prophecy, a simple man who can talk to cats, a mysterious librarian, and a woman waiting for a long-dead lover.	OL2625431W