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Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto Publisher Comments Kitchen juxtaposes two tales about mothers, transsexuality, bereavement, kitchens, love and tragedy in contemporary Japan. It is a startlingly original first work by Japan's brightest young literary star and is now a cult film. When Kitchen was first... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Black Rain by Masuji Ibuse Publisher Comments |Black Rain is centered around the story of a young woman who was caught in the radioactive "black rain" that fell after the bombing of Hiroshima. lbuse bases his tale on real-life diaries and interviews with victims of the holocaust; the result is a... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Becoming Madame Mao by Anchee Min Publisher Comments From the best-selling author of Red Azalea, this extraordinary novel tells the stirring, erotically charged story of Madame Mao Zedong, the woman almost universally known as the "white-boned demon," whom many hold directly responsible for the excesses of... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe Publisher Comments One of the premier Japanese novels of the twentieth century, The Women in the Dunes combines the essence of myth, suspense, and the existential novel. In a remote seaside village, Niki Jumpei, a teacher and amateur entomologist, is held captive with a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Bend in the River (79 Edition) by V.s. Naipaul Publisher Comments In the "brilliant novel" (The New York Times) V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man—an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Samurai Banner of Furin Kazan (Tuttle Classics) by Yasushi Inoue Publisher Comments Originally published in Japanese in 1959, this classic novel by Yasushi Inoue takes place during the Japanese Warring Era (1467-1573)-a time when Japan was ruled by three young powerful warlords: Takeda Shingen, Iwagawa Yoshimoto, and Hojo Ujiyasu. The... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Serve the People! by Lianke Yan Publisher Comments When it was written in 2005, Yan Lianke's Serve the People was deemed unpublishable by China's state-run publishing houses. Despite the ban, Serve the People found an underground audience via excerpts and in chat rooms on the Internet, where commentators... (read more) List Price $13.50 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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J-Boys by Shogo Oketani Publisher Comments In mid-1960s Tokyo, Japan, where the aftereffects of World War II are still felt, eight-year-old Kazuo lives an ordinary life, watching American television shows, listening to British rock music, and dreaming of one day seeing the world.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $8.83 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Rashomon and Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa Publisher Comments Ryunosuke Akutagawa was the author of over 100 short stories. In 1927, he committed suicide at the age of thirty-five.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Goodbye, Xu Hu! by Zhao Changtian Publisher Comments Two novellas by the president of the Shanghai Writing Association address the question of how we must live with the past: in Goodbye, Xu Hu!, a chance meeting between two lovers, separated for twenty years, causes a man to wonder if the flame of their... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Gush by Yo Hemmi Synopsis In this collection of three deeply bizarre yet comedic novellas, Hemmi delicately interweaves delightful commentary with narratives contemplating the interconnectedness of life. The title story recounts the narrator’s relationship with a beautiful... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Leche by R. Zamora Linmark Publisher Comments After thirteen years of living in the U.S., Vince returns to his birthplace, the Philippines. As he ventures into the heat and chaos of the city, he encounters a motley cast of characters, including a renegade nun, a political film director, arrogant... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Cape and Other Stories from the Japanese Ghetto by Kenji Nakagami Publisher Comments The fiction of Kenji Nakagami has no peer in contemporary Japan. Born into the burakumin--an outcast class shunned in feudal Japan and still suffering discrimination today--Nakagami depicts the lives of his people in powerful, sensual prose and stark... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Forty Roses by Sun Yong Publisher Comments A look at the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution, where families were destroyed, friendships disbanded and budding relationships never given a chance to bloom.... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Snakes and Earrings by Hitomi Kanehara Publisher Comments An underground world. A murder. An international phenomenon. Snakes and Earrings. . . . Describing a world as amoral and fascinating as the landscapes of Less Than Zero and Trainspotting, this novel about a young woman living in the violent world of... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Ah, Blue Bird by Lu Xinger Publisher Comments Lu Xing'er, one of China's most prolific writers, focuses her penetrating gaze on the life of the educated urban youth during and after the Cultural Revolution.... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The One Who Did Not Ask (Asian Writers Series) by Altaf Fatima Publisher Comments Altaf fatima describes with touching detail the impact of change on the lives of an entire people.... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Cloud Messenger by Aamer Hussein Publisher Comments "A thing of beauty. . . . You must read it."—Nadeem Aslam "A shower of pleasures."—Julia O'Faolain "Sophisticated, cosmopolitan and seductive, the novel engages mind and senses alike."—André Naffis-Sahely, The Times Literary... (read more) Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper
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Beyond the Blossoming Fields by Junichi Watanabe Publisher Comments As a young girl from a wealthy family, Ginko Ogino seems set for a conventional life in the male-dominated society of 19th-century Japan. But when she contracts gonorrhea from her husband, she suffers the disgrace of divorce. Forced to bear the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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J-Boys: Kazuo's World, Tokyo, 1965 by Shogo Oketani Publisher Comments Kazuo Nakamoto's life in inner-city Tokyo is one of tea and tofu, of American TV and rock 'n' roll. Kazuo is nine. It is the mid-1960s, just after the Japan Olympics, and Kazuo dreams of being a track star. He hangs out with his buddies, goes to school,... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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