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Two elaborate tales written in the early 1960s by the Japanese author Mizukami (1919--2004) explore volcanic oedipal urges lurking just below the surface of unlikely love triangles. In The Temple of the Wild Geese, set at a Zen Buddhist monastery in the mountains, Jinen, an unhappy, disfigured and lonely orphaned novice, develops a filial crush on Satoko, a recent widow and the reverend Jikai's new common-law wife, which she encourages. It's a simple...
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"In this debut collection, Mary Yukari Waters, a Japanese-American writer, opens a window onto a foreign culture as she reveals the universal humanity of her characters. These stories explore Japanese society caught between the long shadow of World War II and the rapid advance of Westernization. The women and children who inhabit these tales have lost husbands and fathers in the war and now face a world dramatically altered by Western influence."...
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Recognized throughout the world for his brilliance as a novelist and playwright, Yukio Mishima is also noted as a master of the short story in his native Japan, where the form is practiced as a major art. Nine of Yukio Mishima's finest stories were selected by Mishima himself for translation in this book; they represent his extraordinary ability to depict a wide variety of human beings in moments of significance. Often his characters are sophisticated...
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The first translation presented in this collection of Katai's writings is The Quilt, his best-known work. The seven other stories included here, of which only one has been previously translated into English, are illustrative of Katai's views of nature and demonstrate the subtle depictive technique that he developed--Jacket.
7) Brave story
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With a determined plan to reunite his mother and father, the 10-year-old boy named Wataru knowingly enters a fantasy realm inhabited by a goddess who has the power to change destiny. With the help of the Lizard Boy, the Cat Girl, and the Fire-breathing Dragon, Wataru faces a series of seemingly insurmountable obstacles on this once-in-a-lifetime adventure. One way or another, the young hero must reach the Tower of Destiny and bring his mother and...
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Kenzaburō Ōe was ten when American soldiers entered his mountain village during World War II, and his writing "reveals the tension and ambiguity forged by the collapse of the values of his childhood on the one hand and the confrontation with American writers on the other ... [His] heroes have been expelled from the certainty of childhood, into a world that bears no relation to their past"--Back cover.
"These four novels display Oe's passionate...
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