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“Author Hisashi Kashiwai is able to craft beautiful, heartfelt stories for his characters . . .”

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"A slender book, but one rich in experience, exactly like the tiny, crammed Morisaki bookshop itself."

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"a brilliantly poetic translation . . .  explored with biting humor and sharp wit."

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“Otowa has powerful tools to give the reader a rich vision of distinctive characters in a distinctive place.”

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“a disturbing and thoughtful novel, almost surreal at times. . . .

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Arguably the world’s first novel, The Tale of Genji was written by a Japanese noblewoman known as Murasaki Shikibu around the year 1,000 CE.

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Tomoyuki Hoshino, born 1965, is one of Japan’s more compelling younger writers, but he remains virtually unknown abroad.

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Originally published in 1966, with the first translation into English published in 1969, this latest edition of Silence has a foreword by Martin Scorsese who is soon to make “a major motio

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With Japanese ghosts and demons, author Sean Michael Wilson and illustrator Michiru Morikawa have created cultural Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark in comic form.

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Nobel Laureate Kenzaburo Oe brings the novelist career of his literary alter-ego, Kogito Choko, to a close with the publication of his new novel, the most recent in the series, Death by Water

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“Besides the deftly rendered plot to uncover a conspiracy—which may remind a few readers of another sexually adventurous girl who kicks over a hornet’s nest even if she lacks a dragon tatto