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Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata Publisher Comments To this haunting novel of wasted love, Kawabata brings the brushstroke suggestiveness and astonishing grasp of motive that earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature. As he chronicles the affair between a wealthy dilettante and the mountain geisha who... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami From Powells.com Haruki Murakami is generally considered the greatest Japanese writer of his generation, but at times he seems more in tune with the culture of the West than of his native country. Throughout his work, the food, music, movies, and literature... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Publisher Comments The Tale of Genji was written in the eleventh century by Murasaki Shikibu, a lady of the Heian court. It is universally recognized as the greatest masterpiece of Japanese prose narrative, perhaps the earliest true novel in the history of the world. Until... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Silence (69 Edition) by Shusaku Endo Publisher Comments A novel of faith and doubt set in medieval Japan. Endo relates the history of the Japanese Christians who were persecuted after the rise to power of the samurai in the 17th century, and in particular the plight of Japanese priests who were forced to... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $7.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Winter Sleep by Kenzo Kitakata Publisher Comments The legendary Japanese master?s Winter Sleep takes you into the hardboiled world of art — where ex-cons are philosophers, young lovers are combustible, and aesthetics is life. Nakagi, an ex-con painter who has sequestered himself in a mountain... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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Soul Mountain by Xingjian Gao Publisher Comments In 1983 Chinese playwright, critic, fiction writer, and painter Gao Xingjian was diagnosed with lung cancer and faced imminent death. But six weeks later, a second examination revealed the cancer was gone, and he was thrown back into the world of the... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk Publisher Comments At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of art, My Name Is Red is a transporting tale set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of sixteenth-century Istanbul, from one of the most prominent... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Kafka on the Shore 1st Edition by Haruki Murakami Staff Pick In Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami brings the Oedipus legend to contemporary Japan. The reader is treated to his musings on art, culture, the loss of innocence and...cats, in his patented, magic-realist way. Easily his best novel translated into... (read more) Your price: $40.00 Used - Hardcover
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Twinkle Twinkle (03 Edition) by Kaori Ekuni Publisher Comments They got married ten days ago. They haven't had sex yet and they don't intend to. As it turned out, the only way to make their parents get off their backs about trying to find someone was actually finding somone--with whom to put marriage for show... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Hardcover
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Hiroshima Notes (81 Edition) by Kenzaburo Oe Synopsis Hiroshima Notes is a powerful statement on the Hiroshima bombing and its terrible legacy by the 1994 Nobel laureate for literature. Oes account of the lives of the many victims of Hiroshima and the valiant efforts of those who cared for them, both... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Snow by Orhan Pamuk Publisher Comments From the acclaimed author of My Name is Red ("a sumptuous thriller" — John Updike; "chockful of sublimity and sin" — New York Times Book Review) comes a spellbinding tale of disparate yearnings — for love, art, power, and God — set in... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Dream in Polar Fog by Yuri Rytkheu Publisher Comments A Dream in Polar Fogis at once a cross-cultural journey, an ethnographic fable and chronicle of the Chukchi people and a breathtaking adventure story. It is the story of John MacLellan, a young Canadian sailor who is left behind by his ship, stranded... (read more) Your price: $22.25 New - Hardcover
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Selected Poems by Rabindranath Tagore Publisher Comments The poems of Rabindranath Tagore are among the most haunting and tender in Indian and world literature, expressing a profound and passionate human yearning. His ceaselessly inventive works deal with such subjects as the interplay between God and mortals,... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Scarlet Gang of Asakusa (05 Edition) by Yasunari Kawabata Publisher Comments In the 1920s, Asakusa was to Tokyo what Montmartre had been to 1890s Paris and Times Square was to be to 1940s New York. Available in English for the first time, The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa, by Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata, captures the decadent... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $19.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather by Xingjian Gao Publisher Comments “ A beautifully composed series of prose pieces that .. stands shoulder to shoulder with some of the foremost fiction of the moment… . Worth close attention of any serious reader.”... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima Publisher Comments Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, The Sound of Waves is a timeless story of first love. A young fisherman is entranced at the sight of the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village. They fall in love, but must then endure the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe Staff Pick If you like your books to be a punch in the face, then consider A Personal Matter a good nose bleed of a novel. This is a depiction of human frailty, alienation, despair, and ultimate triumph. Coming to grips with the narrator proved to be quite a... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Naoko by Keigo Higashino Publisher Comments Winner of the Japan Mystery Writers Award, Naoko is a black comedy of hidden minds and lives. Navigating the interstices between the real and the unreal with perfect plot twists, this page-turner is also a critique of gender relations by a male Japanese... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Silent Cry by Kenzaburo Oe Publisher Comments The Silent Cry traces the uneasy relationship between two brothers who return to their ancestral home, a village in densely forested western Japan. While one brother tries to sort out the after-effects of a friend's suicide and the birth of a retarded... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Cast Me Out If You Will (97 Edition) by Lalithambika Antherjanam Publisher Comments "There have been no women in our part of the country whose names posterity found it worthwhile to cherish," writes Lalithambika Antherjanam in "Come Back", her fictional account of an Indian woman activist's life. In Cast Me Out If You... (read more) List Price $20.50 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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