The teenager Aya is growing up fast in Tokyo. Will she survive? Will her fa mily understand and forgive? Sayonara, Dream-Eater takes a fast journey thr ough the ups and downs of adolescence in a metropol. We are launched into t he relationship between the 17-year-old Aya and her mother Masako that has come under pressure and strain within the ultra-modern city that is Tokyo. Aya breaks away and, alone, she wades through her own conflict-riddled choi ces, the meaning of love, and what it means to grow up fast in a modern wor ld that demands so much for so little in return. Set in modern day Jap... View More...
From the author of 'Where Hydrangeas Grow'comes a delightful and thought pr ovoking tale of two women, which reaches across age and race to touch somet hing in us all. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. 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 t he impact of Western ideas. Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. Oba Yozo's attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, c... View More...
Gold Mask is Edogawa Rampo's sixth novel featuring detective Akechi KogorÅ? , as he investigates the crime spree of the uncanny costumed "Gold Mask." L overs of crime fiction will be delighted to discover that this resourceful thief, confounding Akechi's every move, is none other than Maurice Leblanc' s famous "gentleman burglar," Arsene Lupin! Given Lupin's obvious influence on Rampo's own Fiend with Twenty Faces, this work serves as a fascinating precursor to his Boy Detectives series, and marks another major step in the development of Japanese detective fiction in the period between the War... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. A disillusioned scholar wanders off to the western desert frontier of eleventh-century China and participates in the struggle between the Hsi-hsia tribes and the powerful Sung dynasty. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Snow Country is a novel by the Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata. The novel is considered a classic work of Japanese literature and was among the three novels the Nobel Committee cited in 1968, when Kawabata was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. In one of the most acclaimed and strange novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now 31, "Never Let Me Go" hauntingly dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School, and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world. A story of love, fri... View More...
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First American Publication This stunning and elegiac novel by the author of the internationally acclai med Wind-Up Bird Chronicle has sold over 4 million copies in Japan and is n ow available to American audiences for the first time. It is sure to be a l iterary event. Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in Tokyo, i s devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mu tual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend years befor e. Toru begins to adapt to campus life and the loneliness and isolation he faces there, but Naoko find... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.First Edition, First Printing (Full Number Line) A clerk in a Tokyo of the near future works in an organization that controls the flow of information to society--employing electronic brainwashing and other insidious techniques--a job that contributes to his increasing sense of dehumanization. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. A divorced man angry at his wife finds a painfully prominent outlet in a pe rmanent erection; a model thinks every man on the street is a stalker; an o verbearing magazine editor relieves his mid-life crisis by long-distance sw imming . . . These are some of the patients who descend to the basement con sulting room of Doctor Ichiro Irabu, an obese, eccentric neurologist with a n injection fetish, an Oedipus complex. and a pea-green Porsche. This colle... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Natsuki isn't like the other girls. She has a wand and a transformation mirror. She might be a witch, or an alien from another planet. Together with her cousin Yuu, Natsuki spends her summers in the wild mountains of Nagano, dreaming of other worlds. When a terrible sequence of events threatens to part the two children forever, they make a promise: survive, no matter what. Now Natsuki is grown. She lives a quiet life with her asexual husband, survivin... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Stunning, cutting-edge thriller with a chilling supernatural twist from Japan's stylish new literary star. Asakawa is a hardworking journalist who has climbed his way up from local-news beat reporter to writer for his newspaper's weekly magazine. A chronic workaholic, he doesn't take much notice when his seventeen-year-old niece dies suddenly -- until a chance conversation reveals that another healthy teenager died at exactly the same time, in chillin... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. In a dystopian future Japan, forty-two junior high school students are outf itted with weapons and bid to kill one another until there is only one left standing. Koushun Takami's notorious high-octane thriller envisions a nightmare scenario: a class of junior high school students is taken to a deserted island where, as part of a ruthless authoritarian program, they are provided arms and forced to kill until only one survivor is left standing. Criticiz... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition.Pages are intact a nd not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Kazuo Mori, PI, is struggling to make ends meet. When he falls in with a prostitute called Angel, he is soon struggling for survival in a vicious game that has the Yakuza and Japan's two major computer game makers as players. And on top of everything else, there is the rival agency that's just set up and is undercutting him on every job. The only thing to do is set up in partnership with the eager young student who is taking his business. And it's an ... View More...
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