A bitterly jealous brother, a samurai who makes the ultimate sacrifice, a cold-hearted husband, a monk who mistakes desire for piety, a fraudulent merchant who meets his match in a supernatural river otter — the motives underlying these...
Japan
- Author:Umezawa, Rui, Fujita, MikikoSummary:
- Author:Murakami, HarukiSummary:
- Author:Clavell, JamesSummary:
A bold English adventurer; an invincible Japanese warlord; a beautiful woman torn between two ways of life, two ways of love--all brought together in an extraordinary saga of a time and a place aflame with conflict, passion, ambition,...
- Author:Miyabe, MiyukiSummary:
Police investigating the murder of a middle-aged office worker discover e-mail correspondence on the victim's computer that indicates he had been a regular participant in an Internet chat room, as the "father" in a fantasy "family."...
- Author:Yamazaki, TomokoSummary:
This is a pioneering work on "karayuki-san," impoverished Japanese women sent abroad to work as prostitutes from the 1860s to the 1920s. The narrative follows the life of one such prostitute, Osaki, who is persuaded as a child of ten to...
- Author:Higashida, NaokiSummary:
Pour la première fois, un enfant atteint d’autisme sévère raconte sa vie intérieure. Âgé de 13 ans au moment de la publication de l’édition japonaise du livre, Naoki Higashida répond avec sensibilité, intelligence et honnêteté à une...
- Author:Hills, BenSummary:
Diana, Princess of Wales, had it easy compared to another lonely princess, Crown Princess Masako of Japan.
- Author:Mishima, YukioSummary:
"Was it death he was now waiting for? Or a wild ecstasy of the senses?" For the youngarmy officer of Yukio Mishima's seminal story, "Patriotism," death and ecstasy become intertwined. With his unique rigor and...
- Author:Soto, GarySummary:
Fourteen-year-old Mexican American Lincoln Mendoza spends a summer with a host family in Japan, encountering new experiences and making new friends.
- Author:Lee, Min JinSummary:
Pachinko follows one Korean family through the generations, beginning in early 1900s Korea with Sunja, the prized daughter of a poor yet proud family, whose unplanned pregnancy threatens to shame them all. Deserted by her lover, Sunja...
- Author:Murakami, HarukiSummary:
Toru Watanabe, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend years before...
- Author:GIBSON, WilliamSummary:
Case was burnt-out, useless, suicidal - his nervous system maimed by a wartime Russian mycotoxin. Then Case met a man who could cure him - in return Case was forced to do a job. Bonded to his artery walls were tiny sacs of mycotoxin,...
- Author:Hills, Doug, Rhodes, MichaelSummary:
Love Manga? The newest features of Manga Studio help you bring your ideas to life! The tools available in the latest version of this powerful program make it easy to turn your computer into your drawing board, and Manga Studio For...
- Author:Okabayashi, KensukeSummary:
If you love Manga, you’ll eat Manga For Dummies, right up. This step-by-step guide shows you how to create all of your favorite Manga characters from rough sketch through final full-color renderings. You’ll build your skills as you...
- Author:Ford, CattSummary:
Cuando su hermano la entrega sin su consentimiento para que forme parte del harén del general Hüi Wei a modo de tributo, la única duda de la princesa Lan’xiu es cuánto tardarán en descubrir su secreto. No se hace ilusiones. Cuando el...
- Author:Baugh, Laura VanArendonkSummary:
How does one find a shapeshifter who may not even exist?The onmyouji Tsurugu no Kiyomori, a practitioner of the mystic arts, has been engaged to protect the warlord's new bride from the fox spirit rumored to be near. Tsurugu and the...
- Author:Baugh, Laura VanArendonkSummary:
Sequel to the award-winning Kitsune-Tsuki Following the search for the shape-shifting kitsune, onmyouji Tsurugu no Kiyomori serves Naka no Yoritomo and his new wife Kaede, protecting their household from the supernatural and warning of...
- Author:Vollmann, William T.Summary:
Explores the enigma surrounding Noh theater and the traditions that have made it intrinsic to Japanese culture for centuries and extracts the secrets of staged femininity and the mystery of perceived and expressed beauty.
- Author:Murakami, HarukiSummary:
Follows the individual odysseys of fifteen-year-old Kafka Tamura after he runs away from his home and overbearing father, and Nakata, an elderly finder of lost cats fleeing a gruesome murder, as they both head to the randomly chosen...
- Author:Murakami, Ry*uSummary: