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  • Best Japanese Short Stories

    Works by 14 Modern Masters: Kawabata, Akutagawa and More

    An anthology of the greatest stories by modern Japanese masters (including previously overlooked women writers)!Fourteen distinct voices are assembled in this one-of-a-kind anthology tracing a nation's changing social landscapes. Internationally renowned writers like Yasunari Kawabata, Ryunosuke Akutagawa and Junichi Watanabe are joined by three notable women writers whose works have not yet ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Japanese Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Alan Tansman ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    With a history stretching back nearly 1,500 years, Japanese literature is infused from its beginnings with written traditions from around the globe, while ever evolving in its own particular expressive modes and vision. This Very Short Introduction traverses this vast and varied canon, ranging from the world's first novel, The Tale of Genji, to pre-modern and modern narrative fiction (including ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Japanese Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Alan Tansman ...
    Narrated by Derek Shoales ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 56 min

    With a history stretching back nearly 1,500 years, written works originating from Japan encompass a vast range of forms and genres. Since the eighth century, poetry and the non-philosophical lyric voice have occupied a central position in Japanese cultural life. The art of narrative would soon follow, blossoming in the eleventh century with one of the world's great literary masterpieces, Murasaki ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories

    Edited by Jay Rubin ...
    This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates the great Japanese short story, from its modern origins in the nineteenth century to the remarkable works being written today. Short story writers already well-known to English-language readers are all included here - Tanizaki, Akutagawa, Murakami, Mishima, Kawabata - but also many surprising new finds. From Yuko Tsushima's 'Flames' to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Under a Glass Bell

    by Anais Nin ...
    Often considered Anais Nin's finest work of fiction, this collection of short stories was self-published by Nin with an old-fashioned hand press in 1944. Among the titles are "Houseboat," "The Mouse," "The Labyrinth," and "Birth." ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Setting Sun

    by Osamu Dazai ...
    Translated by Donald Keene ...
    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 effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. Ozamu Dazai died, a suicide, in 1948. But the influence of his book has made "people of the setting sun" a permanent part of the Japanese language, and his ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories

    by Yasunari Kawabata ...
    Series series Vintage International
    Three surreal, erotically charged stories from Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata.In the three long tales in this collection, Yasunari Kawabata examines the boundaries between fantasy and reality in the minds of three lonely men. Piercing examinations of sexuality and human psychology—and works of remarkable subtlety and beauty—these stories showcase one of the twentieth century’s great writers ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A Bridge for Passing

    A Meditation on Love, Loss, and Faith

    by Pearl S. Buck ...
    The Pulitzer and Nobel Prize–winning and New York Times –bestselling author's memoir of making a movie in 1960s Japan while mourning the loss of her husband.Pearl S. Buck's children's story, The Big Wave, about two young friends whose lives are transformed when a volcano erupts and a tidal wave engulfs their village, was eventually optioned as a movie. A Bridge for Passing narrates the resulting ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Modern Japanese Literature

    From 1868 to the Present Day

    Edited by Donald Keene ...
    A collection of plays, essays, poetry, and reportage compiled by "the 20th-century's premier scholar of Japanese literature" ( Slate).Modern Japanese Literature is Donald Keene's critically acclaimed companion volume to his landmark Anthology of Japanese Literature. Now considered the standard canon of modern Japanese writing translated into English, Modern Japanese Literature includes concise ... Read more

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  • Japanese Haiku: The Four Seasons

    Translated by Peter Beilenson ...
    by Basho, Buson ...
    Series Book 2 - Peter Pauper Press Classic Haiku
    Step into a series of dazzling, funny, melancholy, and joyous moments with this collection of haiku masterworks. Beloved translator Peter Beilensons goals were twofold: to craft a book of haiku accessible to anyone, and to render his best guess at what the poets would have written in English. His translations preserve the sublime spirit of each verse, conjuring vivid visual and emotional ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Crackling Mountain and Other Stories

    by Osamu Dazai ...
    Translated by James O'Brien ...
    Series series Tuttle Classics
    Crackling Mountain and Other Stories features eleven outstanding works by Osama Dazai, widely regarded as one of the 20th century Japan's most gifted writers.Dazai experimented with a wide variety of short story styles and brought to each a sophisticated sense of humor, a broad empathy for the human condition, and a tremendous literary talent.The eleven stories in this collection of Japanese ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Grandmother's Tale and Selected Stories

    by R. K. Narayan ...
    "It is not too much to compare Mr. Narayan to Chekhov." - The New York TimesThere is no better introduction to R.K. Narayan than this remarkable collection of stories celebrating work that spans five decades. 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 ... Read more

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