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Confessions of a Mask
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The Woman in the Dunes
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The Tale of Genji
Written in the eleventh century, this exquisite portrait of courtly life in medieval Japan is widely celebrated as the world’s first novel. Genji, the Shining Prince, is the son of an emperor. He is a…
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All She Was Worth
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Asa: The Girl Who Turned into a Pair of Chopsticks
The startling first collection of dark, surreal, and unsettling stories from the international prize-winning author of The Woman in the Purple Skirt.
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The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
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In Osaka in the years immediately before World War II, four aristocratic women try to preserve a way of life that is vanishing. As told by Junichiro Tanizaki, the story of the Makioka sisters forms wh…
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Real World
A stunning new work of the feminist noir that Natsuo Kirino defined and made her own in her novels Out and Grotesque.
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