Nanao boards a bullet train with one simple task: grab a suitcase and get off at the next stop. When he realizes four other assassins are on board, he realizes their missions are not as unrelated as they first appear.
Japan
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Author:Isaka, KōtarōSummary: - Author:Shors, JohnSummary:
During World War II, the hospital ship Benevolence is providing relief to victims in the South Pacific when she is torpedoed and sunk. Among the survivors are a troubled nurse named Annie and the wounded Japanese soldier named Akira who...
- Author:Kawaguchi, ToshikazuSummary:
Down an alleyway in the heart of Tokyo, there is an underground café that's been serving carefully brewed coffee for over a hundred years. Legend says that this coffeeshop offers its customers the chance to travel back in time. The...
- Author:Muraoka, EriSummary:
The bestselling biography of renowned Japanese translator of Anne of Green Gables available in English for the first time The name Hanako Muraoka is revered in Japan. Her Japanese translation of L. M. Montgomery's beloved children...
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Author:Murakami, HarukiSummary:In 1995, the Japanese city of Kobe suffered a massive earthquake. Nearly 6,000 people died. after the quake was the imaginative response from Japan's leading novelist, Haruki Murakami: six stories, each dealing not directly with...
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Author:Murakami, HarukiSummary:A short, sleek novel of encounters set in Tokyo during the witching hours between midnight and dawn, and every bit as gripping as Haruki Murakami's masterworks The wind-up bird chronicle and Kafka on the shore. At its center are...
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Author:HEARN, LianSummary:The first book in the Otori trilogy is a tale of war, intrigue, love and betrayal set in an imaginary ancient Japanese society and tells the story of Takeo, a young man born to a spiritual people known as the Hidden. Unbeknown to him,...
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Author:Murakami, HarukiSummary:A Japanese yuppie plunges into chaos after he discovers a snapshot depicting a unique crossbreed of sheep.
- Author:Ozeki, RuthSummary:
In Tokyo, 16-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived...
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Author:Lee, Chang-raeSummary:Now in his seventies and retired, Doc Hata still resides in his large home of thirty years in Bedley Run, New York. A polite and unassuming man, he harbors secrets of his past as a medic in the Japanese Army during World War II.
- Author:Murakami, HarukiSummary:
Le passé - tel qu'il était peut-être - fait surgir sur lemiroir l'ombre d'un présent - différent de ce qu'il fut ? Un événement éditorial sans précédent Une oeuvre hypnotique et troublante Un roman d'aventures Une histoire d'...
- Author:Barrett, David DeanSummary:
On the seventy-fifth anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki comes this account of the war-room drama inside the cabinets of the United States and Japan that led to Armageddon on August 6, 1945.
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