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Out: A Novel

Natsuo Kirino

(239 reviews )

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Nothing in Japanese literature prepares us for the stark, tension-filled, plot-driven realism of Natsuo Kirino’s award-winning literary mystery Out.This mesmerizing novel tells the story of a brutal murder in the staid Tokyo suburbs, as a young mother who works the night shift making boxed lunches strangles her abusive husband and then seeks the ...more

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All Editions	Narrow Road to the Interior (Shambhala Centaur Editions) Matsuo Basho Write the first review.(See your review) Description Basho is best known in the West as the author of Narrow Road to the Interior, a travel diary of linked prose and haiku that recounts his journey through the far northern provinces of Japan. This volume includes beautiful Japanese-style illustrations by Stephen Addiss.
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Botchan: A Modern Classic

Soseki Natsume

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Botchan, like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn or The Catcher in the Rye, is a classic of its kind, a sly, funny, poignant tale about a young mans rebellion against the system. Since its original publication 100 years ago, it has enjoyed a timeless popularity among Japanese readers both young and old, making it, according to Donald Keene, probabl...more

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geisha , insubordination , japan , literatura japonesa , meiji period , morality , school pupils , school teachers , translation , translation from japanese

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All Editions	Heredity Of Taste (Classics of Japanese Literature) Soseki Natsume (1 review ) Description Still timely after nearly half a century, The Heredity of Taste is Soseki Natsume’s only antiwar work. The heartbreaking story of love shattered by the realities of battle reveals Soseki’s attitude toward the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–5. With an introduction by Steven W. Kohl, University of Oregon.
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Summer Crossing: A Novel (Modern Library Paperbacks)

Truman Capote

(18 reviews )

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Thought to be lost for over 50 years, here is the first novel by one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Set in New York during the summer of 1945, this is the story of a young carefree socialite, Grady, who must make serious decisions about the romance she is dangerously pursuing and the effect it will have on everyone involved.F...more

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1600-present , 1900-1949 , 1900-1999 , 1940s , bildungsroman , class difference , debutantes , fiction themes , literary genres & types of novels , love stories , love, relationships & sex , posthumous , types of characters

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The Stranger

albert camus

(1452 reviews )

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Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers

Tom Wolfe

(7 reviews )

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"Radical Chic" is Tom Wolfe's hilarious dissection of the need among wealthy liberals in late '60s America to be seen to support the correct political causes - even if that meant giving champagne receptions for the feared Black Panther Party. "Mau-Mauing The Flak Catchers" takes a satirical look at how, during that period of cultural upheaval, mino...more

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1600-present , 1900-1999 , 1950-1999 , 1960s , 1970s , african-american studies , black panther party , ethnic studies , social science , sociology

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V. (Perennial Classics)

Thomas Pynchon

(59 reviews )

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The wild, macabre tale of the twentieth century and of two men--one looking for something he has lost, the other with nothing much to lose--and "V.," the unknown woman of the title.

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