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Japan --Fiction

  • Auteur:
    Murakami, Haruki
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    In a Tokyo suburb a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's missing cat. Soon he finds himself looking for his wife as well in a netherworld that lies beneath the placid surface of Tokyo. As these searches intersect, Okada...

  • Auteur:
    Kawabata, Yansunari
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    At an isolated mountain hot spring, with snow blanketing every surface, Shimamura, a wealthy dilettante meets Komako, a lowly geisha. She gives herself to him fully and without remorse, despite knowing that their passion cannot last and...

  • Auteur:
    SUZUKI, Koji
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    Asakawa, a hardworking journalist, is intrigued by his niece's inexplicable death. His investigation leads him from a metropolitan tokyo teeming with modern society's fears to a rural Japan--a mountain resort, a volcanic...

  • Auteur:
    Dazai, Osamu
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    The poignant and fascinating story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas.
    Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of...

  • Auteur:
    Yoshimoto, Banana
    Sommaire:

    I shall refer to her as Lizard here, but not because of the small lizard tattoo that I discovered on her inner thigh.
    The woman has round, black eyes that gaze at you with utter detachment, like the eyes of a reptile. Every bend...

  • Auteur:
    Heermann, Travis
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    A fusion of historical fiction and adventure fantasy, the first volume of Heermann's Ronin Trilogy is a page-turning folkloric narrative of epic proportions. In a strange, supernatural feudal Japan, 17-year-old warrior Ken'...

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