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The Modern Murasaki: Writing by Women of Meiji Japan (Translations from the Asian Classics)
by Rebecca Copeland  Publisher Comments The first collection of its kind, "The Modern Murasaki" brings the vibrancy and rich imagination of women's writing from the Meiji period to English-language readers. Along with traditional prose selections, the anthology features short stories, plays...
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Crazy Iris and Other Stories of the Atomic Aftermath
by Kenzaburo Oe Publisher Comments Edited by one of Japan’s leading and internationally acclaimed writers, this collection of short stories was compiled to mark the fortieth anniversary of the August 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Here some of Japan’s best and...
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Anth. of Japanese Lit. (UNESCO Collection of Representative Works: European)
by Donald Keene Publisher Comments The sweep of Japanese literature in all its great variety was made available to Western readers for the first time in this anthology. Every genre and style, from the celebrated No plays to the poetry and novels of the seventeenth century, find a place in...
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Inside and Other Short Fiction: Japanese Women by Japanese Women
by Cathy Layne Publisher Comments Collection of eight short works--"cutting-edge fiction from today's Japanese women writers--"that explores the universal issues of female identity, and deals frankly and explicitly with a broad range of women's experiences. *Foreword by American novelist...
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Modern Japanese Literature
by Donald Keene Publisher Comments 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...
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Izu Dancer & Other Stories
by Yasunari Kawabata Synopsis Originally published in The Atlantic Monthly, in 1958, The Izu Dancer, a story about a young man's travels through the Izu Peninsula, introduced Kawabata's prodigious talent to the West. Since its first printing, Kawabata, winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize,...
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Loud Sparrows: Contemporary Chinese Short-Shorts (Weatherhead Books on Asia)
by Aili Mu Publisher Comments Extremely short stories-known as short-shorts-have become a global phenomenon, but nowhere have they been embraced as enthusiastically as in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. The form's artistic and aesthetic freedoms allow authors to capture the...
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Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused
by Howard Goldblatt Publisher Comments Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused is a showcase for 20 writers from the new literary generation in China. Hard-core realism, experimental prose, and black humor; exoticism and eroticism;shocking tales of brutality, tender evocations of love, and...
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The Vintage Book of Modern Indian Literature
by Amit Chaudhuri Publisher Comments In recent years American readers have been thrilling to the work of such Indian writers as Salman Rushdie and Vikram Seth. Now this extravagant and wonderfully discerning anthology unfurls the full diversity of Indian literature from the 1850s to the...
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The Slate of Life: More Contemporary Stories by Women Writers of India
by Kali For Women Publisher Comments B B B This sequel to "Truth Tales" contains ten stories by ten of the most renowned and inventive writers of India, translated from nine different languages. Rich in regional flavor, each story offers a glimpse into the everyday lives of Indian women...
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Pearls in the Shell: A Collection of Best Loved Short Verses from the Chinese Language
by J S Soong Publisher Comments A unique anthology of the best-loved short verses from the Chinese language, giving the reader vivid insights into Chinese culture and thought. Dramatically illustrated with ancient drawings and exquisitely rendered into everyday English, these...
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Vintage Book of Indian Writing 1947 1997
by Salman Rushdie Synopsis An anthology of the work of the most important and influential Indian writers of the last 50 years. This volume is published to coincide with the anniversary of India's independence....
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Modanizumu: Modernist Fiction from Japan, 1913-1938
by William J. Tyler Synopsis Modanizumu introduces faces altogether new or relatively unknown: Abe Tomoji, Kajii Motojirō, Murayama Kaita, Osaki Midori, Tachibana Sotoo, Takeda Rintarō, Tani Jōji, Yoshiyuki Eisuke, and Yumeno Kyūsaku. It also revisits...
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Modern Korean Fiction : Anthology (05 Edition)
by Bruce Fulton Publisher Comments To represent the past century of Korean fiction, this definitive collection extends beyond familiar writers, challenges cultural norms, and crosses political borders. By including stories from neglected female, North Korean, and wlbuk writers (those who...
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The Weekenders: Adventures in Calcutta
by Bella Bathurst Publisher Comments In 2001 a group of authors incluing Andrew O'Hagan, Tony Hawks and Irvine Welsh were given the opportunity to visit Sudan, one of the world's most inaccessible countries. The resulting book: 'The Weekenders - Travels in the Heart of Africa' was an award...
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Story-Wallah: Short Fiction from South Asian Writers
by Shyam Selvadurai Publisher Comments Writers of South Asian descent have been garnering more and more success, acclaim, and attention. Story-Wallah gathers the finest South Asian voices in fiction for the first time in a single volume. <BR>As Shyam Selvadurai writes in his...
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A Ready-Made Life: Early Masters of Modern Korean Fiction
by Kim Chong Un Synopsis A Ready-Made Life is the first volume of early modern Korean fiction to appear in English in the U.S. Written between 1921 and 1943, the sixteen stories are an excellent introduction to the riches of modern Korean fiction. They reveal a variety of...
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Land Beneath the Wind: New Writing from America, the Pacific, and Asia
by Frank Stewart Synopsis Land beneath the Wind features a gathering of authors from contemporary Malaysia, all of whom write in English. Also in this volume: a symposium on the changing face of travel writing; new fiction, poetry, and essays; photography by Linda Connor....
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Of Women, Outcastes, Peasants, and Rebels
by Kalpana Bardhan Publisher Comments "A powerful portrait of the oppressed and the forms of oppression that occur in India."--Theodore Riccardi, Jr., Columbia...
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Mirrorwork: 50 Years of Indian Writing 1947-1997
by Salman Rushdie Publisher Comments This unique anthology presents thirty-two selections by Indian authors writing in English over the past half-century. Selected by Salman Rushdie and Elizabeth West, these novel excerpts, stories, and memoirs illuminate wonderful writing by authors often...
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