Dust and Other Stories

T'Aejun Yi

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• Yi T'aejun was one of twentieth-century Korea's true masters of the short story--and a man who in 1946 stunned his contemporaries by moving to the Sov... Lees meer

Meeting with My Brother

Mun-yol Yi

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• Yi Mun-yol's Meeting with My Brother is narrated by a South Korean whose father abandoned his family and defected to the North during the Korean War. ... Lees meer

A Dictionary of Maqiao

Shaogong Han

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• One of the most-talked about works of fiction to emerge from China in recent years, this novel about an urban youth "displaced" to a small village in ... Lees meer

Fu Ping

Anyi Wang

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• Nainai has lived in Shanghai for many years, and the time has come to find a wife for her adopted grandson. But when the bride she has chosen arrives ... Lees meer

The Narrow Cage and Other Modern Fairy Tales

Vasily Eroshenko

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• Vasily Eroshenko was one of the most remarkable transnational literary figures of the early twentieth century: a blind multilingual Esperantist from U... Lees meer

Friend

Nam-nyong Paek

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• Paek Nam-nyong’s Friend is a tale of marital intrigue, abuse, and divorce in North Korea. This groundbreaking translation of one of North Korea’s most... Lees meer

In Black and White

Jun'ichir&#333. Tanizaki

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• Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's In Black and White is a literary murder mystery in which the lines between fiction and reality are blurred. The writer Mizuno ha... Lees meer

Light and Dark

Sōseki Natsume

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• Light and Dark , Natsume Soseki's longest novel and masterpiece, although unfinished, is a minutely observed study of haute-bourgeois manners on the e... Lees meer

Table for One

Ko-Eun Yun

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• An office worker who has no one to eat lunch with enrolls in a course that builds confidence about eating alone. A man with a pathological fear of bed... Lees meer

The Breaking Jewel

Makoto Oda

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• Set on an island in the South Pacific during the final days of World War II, when the tide has turned against Japan and the war has unmistakably becom... Lees meer

Light and Dark

Sōseki Natsume

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• Light and Dark , Natsume Soseki's longest novel and masterpiece, although unfinished, is a minutely observed study of haute-bourgeois manners on the e... Lees meer

Sacred Cesium Ground and Isa's Deluge

Yūsuke Kimura

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• In these two novellas, Kimura Yūsuke explores human and animal life in northern Japan after the natural and nuclear disasters of March 11, 2011. Kimur... Lees meer

The Handsome Monk and Other Stories

Tsering Dondrup

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• Tsering Döndrup is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed authors writing in Tibetan today. In a distinct voice rich in black humor and iron... Lees meer

Beasts Head for Home

Kōbō Abe

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• In the aftermath of World War II, Kuki Kyūzō, a Japanese youth raised in the puppet state of Manchuria, struggles to return home to Japan. What follow... Lees meer

In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun

Raichō Hiratsuka

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• "In the beginning, woman was truly the sun. An authentic person. Now she is the moon, a wan and sickly moon, dependent on another, reflecting another'... Lees meer

Who Ate Up All the Shinga?

Wan-Suh Park

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• Park Wan-suh is a best-selling and award-winning writer whose work has been widely translated and published throughout the world. Who Ate Up All the S... Lees meer

A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made on

Kai-Cheung Dung

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• Dung Kai-cheung's A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On is a playful and imaginative glimpse into the consumerist dreamscape of late-nineties ... Lees meer

Kiku's Prayer

Shūsaku Endō

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• Kiku's Prayer is told through the eyes of Kiku, a self-assured young woman from a rural Japanese village who falls in love with Seikichi, a devoted Ca... Lees meer

Patterns of the Heart and Other Stories

Myŏngik Ch'oe

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• Korean writer Ch'oe Myŏngik was a lifelong resident of Pyongyang, a city his short stories masterfully evoke in exquisite modernist prose. His career ... Lees meer

Fu Ping

Anyi Wang

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• Nainai has lived in Shanghai for many years, and the time has come to find a wife for her adopted grandson. But when the bride she has chosen arrives ... Lees meer

Theory of Literature and Other Critical Writings

Sōseki Natsume

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• Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) was the foremost Japanese novelist of the twentieth century, known for such highly acclaimed works as Kokoro , Sanshiro , a... Lees meer

Meeting with My Brother

Mun-Yol Yi

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• Yi Mun-yol's Meeting with My Brother is narrated by a middle-aged South Korean professor, also named Yi, whose father abandoned his family and defecte... Lees meer

The Reincarnated Giant

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• A new wave of Chinese science fiction is here. This golden age has not only resurrected the genre but also subverted its own conventions. Going beyond... Lees meer

Lonely Woman

Takako Takahashi

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• Replete with madwomen, murderers, musicians, and mystics, Lonely Woman dramatically interweaves the lives of five women. It remains Takako Takahashi's... Lees meer