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The Box Man
A Novel
Written by Kobo Abe
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 10, 2001
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72651-4 (0-375-72651-9)
Kobo Abe, the internationally acclaimed author of Woman in the Dunes, combines wildly imaginative fantasies and naturalistic prose to create narratives reminiscent of the work of Kafka and Beckett.
In this eerie and evocative masterpiece, the nameless protagonist gives up his identity and the trappings of a normal life to live in... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Kobo Abe
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 10, 2001
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72651-4 (0-375-72651-9)
Kobo Abe, the internationally acclaimed author of Woman in the Dunes, combines wildly imaginative fantasies and naturalistic prose to create narratives reminiscent of the work of Kafka and Beckett.
In this eerie and evocative masterpiece, the nameless protagonist gives up his identity and the trappings of a normal life to live in... Read more >
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The Face of Another
Written by Kobo Abe
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 4, 2003
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-72653-8 (0-375-72653-5)
Like an elegantly chilling postscript to The Metamorphosis, this classic of postwar Japanese literature describes a bizarre physical transformation that exposes the duplicities of an entire world. The narrator is a scientist hideously deformed in a laboratory accident—a man who has lost his face and, with it, his connection to other... Read more >
Written by Kobo Abe
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 4, 2003
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-72653-8 (0-375-72653-5)
Like an elegantly chilling postscript to The Metamorphosis, this classic of postwar Japanese literature describes a bizarre physical transformation that exposes the duplicities of an entire world. The narrator is a scientist hideously deformed in a laboratory accident—a man who has lost his face and, with it, his connection to other... Read more >
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Kangaroo Notebook
A Novel
Written by Kobo Abe
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 29, 1997
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-74663-8 (0-679-74663-3)
In the last novel written before his death in 1993, one of Japan's most distinguished novelists proffered a surreal vision of Japanese society that manages to be simultaneously fearful and jarringly funny. The narrator of Kangaroo Notebook wakes on morning to discover that his legs are growing radish sprouts, an ailment... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Kobo Abe
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 29, 1997
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-74663-8 (0-679-74663-3)
In the last novel written before his death in 1993, one of Japan's most distinguished novelists proffered a surreal vision of Japanese society that manages to be simultaneously fearful and jarringly funny. The narrator of Kangaroo Notebook wakes on morning to discover that his legs are growing radish sprouts, an ailment... Read more >
The Ruined Map
A Novel
Written by Kobo Abe
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 4, 2001
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-72652-1 (0-375-72652-7)
Of all the great Japanese novelists, Kobe Abe was indubitably the most versatile. With The Ruined Map, he crafted a mesmerizing literary crime novel that combines the narrative suspense of Chandler with the psychological depth of Dostoevsky.
Mr. Nemuro, a respected salesman, disappeared over half a year ago, but only now does... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Kobo Abe
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 4, 2001
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-72652-1 (0-375-72652-7)
Of all the great Japanese novelists, Kobe Abe was indubitably the most versatile. With The Ruined Map, he crafted a mesmerizing literary crime novel that combines the narrative suspense of Chandler with the psychological depth of Dostoevsky.
Mr. Nemuro, a respected salesman, disappeared over half a year ago, but only now does... Read more >
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Secret Rendezvous
Written by Kobo Abe
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 9, 2002
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-72654-5 (0-375-72654-3)
From the acclaimed author of Woman in the Dunes comes Secret Rendezvous, the bizarrely erotic and comic adventures of a man searching for his missing wife in a mysteriously vast underground hospital.
From the moment that an ambulance appears in the middle of the night to take his wife, who protests that... Read more >
Written by Kobo Abe
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 9, 2002
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-72654-5 (0-375-72654-3)
From the acclaimed author of Woman in the Dunes comes Secret Rendezvous, the bizarrely erotic and comic adventures of a man searching for his missing wife in a mysteriously vast underground hospital.
From the moment that an ambulance appears in the middle of the night to take his wife, who protests that... Read more >
Woman in the Dunes
Written by Kobo Abe
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 16, 1991
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73378-2 (0-679-73378-7)
One of the premier Japanese novels of the 20th century, The Woman in the Dunes combines the essence of myth, suspense, and the existential novel. In a remote seaside village, Niki Jumpei, a teacher and amateur entomologist, is held captive with a young woman at the bottom of a vast sand... Read more >
Written by Kobo Abe
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 16, 1991
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73378-2 (0-679-73378-7)
One of the premier Japanese novels of the 20th century, The Woman in the Dunes combines the essence of myth, suspense, and the existential novel. In a remote seaside village, Niki Jumpei, a teacher and amateur entomologist, is held captive with a young woman at the bottom of a vast sand... Read more >
A Caring Man
Written by Akira Arai
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Vertical
On Sale: July 5, 2011
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-935654-17-9 (1-935654-17-9)
Tokyo, 2011. An unknown terrorist group has destroyed an iconic landmark in the Japanese capital, signaling the start of a series of attacks that the group’s enigmatic leader promises will culminate in a “Final Event” -- a massacre of unprecedented proportions. With no leads to work with aside from the ingeniously... Read more >
Written by Akira Arai
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Vertical
On Sale: July 5, 2011
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-935654-17-9 (1-935654-17-9)
Tokyo, 2011. An unknown terrorist group has destroyed an iconic landmark in the Japanese capital, signaling the start of a series of attacks that the group’s enigmatic leader promises will culminate in a “Final Event” -- a massacre of unprecedented proportions. With no leads to work with aside from the ingeniously... Read more >
Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times
Selected Haiku of Basho
Written by Matsuo Basho
Translated by David Young
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-96200-3 (0-307-96200-8)
Vivid new translations of Basho's popular haiku, in a selected format ideal for newcomers as well as fans long familiar with the Japanese master.
Basho, the famously bohemian traveler through seventeenth-century Japan, is a poet attuned to the natural world as well as humble human doings; "Piles of quilts/ snow on distant... Read more >
Selected Haiku of Basho
Written by Matsuo Basho
Translated by David Young
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-96200-3 (0-307-96200-8)
Vivid new translations of Basho's popular haiku, in a selected format ideal for newcomers as well as fans long familiar with the Japanese master.
Basho, the famously bohemian traveler through seventeenth-century Japan, is a poet attuned to the natural world as well as humble human doings; "Piles of quilts/ snow on distant... Read more >
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The Secrets of Mariko
A Year in the Life of a Japanese Woman and Her Family
Written by Elisabeth Bumiller
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 29, 1996
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-77262-0 (0-679-77262-6)
Following a housewife named Mariko through the course of a year, this remarkable and revealing book offers an intimate look at the emotional, spiritual, and social lives of Japanese women and men. Elisabeth Bumiller, a reporter for The Washington Post, somehow managed to break through Mariko's instinctive reserve and, in observing her... Read more >
A Year in the Life of a Japanese Woman and Her Family
Written by Elisabeth Bumiller
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 29, 1996
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-77262-0 (0-679-77262-6)
Following a housewife named Mariko through the course of a year, this remarkable and revealing book offers an intimate look at the emotional, spiritual, and social lives of Japanese women and men. Elisabeth Bumiller, a reporter for The Washington Post, somehow managed to break through Mariko's instinctive reserve and, in observing her... Read more >
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The Tale of Murasaki
A Novel
Written by Liza Dalby
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 21, 2001
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-49795-4 (0-385-49795-4)
The sensitive and modest daughter of a mid-ranking court poet, Murasaki Shikibu staves off loneliness with her active imagination, telling stories about the dashing Prince Genji to her close friends. At first, they are their private entertainment, but soon Genji's amorous adventures are leaked to the public and Murasaki is thrust... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Liza Dalby
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 21, 2001
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-49795-4 (0-385-49795-4)
The sensitive and modest daughter of a mid-ranking court poet, Murasaki Shikibu staves off loneliness with her active imagination, telling stories about the dashing Prince Genji to her close friends. At first, they are their private entertainment, but soon Genji's amorous adventures are leaked to the public and Murasaki is thrust... Read more >
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Haiku Mind
108 Poems to Cultivate Awareness and Open Your Heart
Written by Patricia Donegan
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: October 12, 2010
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-59030-758-8 (1-59030-758-5)
Haiku, the Japanese form of poetry written in just three lines, can be miraculous in its power to articulate the profundity of the simplest moment–and for that reason haiku can be a useful tool for bringing us to a heightened awareness of our lives. Here, the poet Patricia Donegan shares her... Read more >
108 Poems to Cultivate Awareness and Open Your Heart
Written by Patricia Donegan
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: October 12, 2010
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-59030-758-8 (1-59030-758-5)
Haiku, the Japanese form of poetry written in just three lines, can be miraculous in its power to articulate the profundity of the simplest moment–and for that reason haiku can be a useful tool for bringing us to a heightened awareness of our lives. Here, the poet Patricia Donegan shares her... Read more >
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No Longer Human, part 1
Written by Osamu Dazai
Adapted by Usamaru Furuya
Format: Trade Paperback, 194 pages
Publisher: Vertical
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $10.95
ISBN: 978-1-935654-19-3 (1-935654-19-5)
In honor of the 100th birthday of Osamu Dazai, Usamaru Furuya retells Dazai’s most important work No Longer Human in modern day Tokyo where modern vices can bring ruin to the self-loathing.
Furuya’s adaptation of No Longer Human takes place nearly seventy years after Dazai’s original. Set in modern day Tokyo, Dazai’s... Read more >
Written by Osamu Dazai
Adapted by Usamaru Furuya
Format: Trade Paperback, 194 pages
Publisher: Vertical
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $10.95
ISBN: 978-1-935654-19-3 (1-935654-19-5)
In honor of the 100th birthday of Osamu Dazai, Usamaru Furuya retells Dazai’s most important work No Longer Human in modern day Tokyo where modern vices can bring ruin to the self-loathing.
Furuya’s adaptation of No Longer Human takes place nearly seventy years after Dazai’s original. Set in modern day Tokyo, Dazai’s... Read more >
No Longer Human, part 2
Written by Osamu Dazai
Adapted by Usamaru Furuya
Format: Trade Paperback, 194 pages
Publisher: Vertical
On Sale: December 6, 2011
Price: $10.95
ISBN: 978-1-935654-22-3 (1-935654-22-5)
In honor of the 100th birthday of Osamu Dazai, Usamaru Furuya retells Dazai’s most important work No Longer Human in modern day Tokyo where modern vices can bring ruin to the self-loathing.
Furuya’s adaptation of No Longer Human takes place nearly seventy years after Dazai’s original. Set in modern day Tokyo, Dazai’s... Read more >
Written by Osamu Dazai
Adapted by Usamaru Furuya
Format: Trade Paperback, 194 pages
Publisher: Vertical
On Sale: December 6, 2011
Price: $10.95
ISBN: 978-1-935654-22-3 (1-935654-22-5)
In honor of the 100th birthday of Osamu Dazai, Usamaru Furuya retells Dazai’s most important work No Longer Human in modern day Tokyo where modern vices can bring ruin to the self-loathing.
Furuya’s adaptation of No Longer Human takes place nearly seventy years after Dazai’s original. Set in modern day Tokyo, Dazai’s... Read more >
Memoirs of a Geisha
A Novel
Written by Arthur Golden
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 10, 1999
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-78158-5 (0-679-78158-7)
A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant debut novel tells with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha.
Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Arthur Golden
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 10, 1999
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-78158-5 (0-679-78158-7)
A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant debut novel tells with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha.
Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her... Read more >
Color of the Sea
Written by John Hamamura
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: November 6, 2007
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-38607-6 (0-307-38607-4)
Raised in Japan and Hawaii, Sam Hamada has been trained in the ways of the samurai. After graduation Sam strikes out for California and falls in love for the first time, with a beautiful young woman named Keiko. But then the Japanese attack Peal Harbor, igniting the war and making Sam... Read more >
Written by John Hamamura
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: November 6, 2007
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-38607-6 (0-307-38607-4)
Raised in Japan and Hawaii, Sam Hamada has been trained in the ways of the samurai. After graduation Sam strikes out for California and falls in love for the first time, with a beautiful young woman named Keiko. But then the Japanese attack Peal Harbor, igniting the war and making Sam... Read more >
The Poetry of Zen
Translated by Sam Hamill and J.P. Seaton
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-59030-425-9 (1-59030-425-X)
A Zen poem is nothing other than an expression of the enlightened mind, a handful of simple words that disappear beneath the moment of insight to which it bears witness. Poetry has been an essential aid to Zen Buddhist practice from the dawn of Zen—and Zen has also had a profound... Read more >
Translated by Sam Hamill and J.P. Seaton
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-59030-425-9 (1-59030-425-X)
A Zen poem is nothing other than an expression of the enlightened mind, a handful of simple words that disappear beneath the moment of insight to which it bears witness. Poetry has been an essential aid to Zen Buddhist practice from the dawn of Zen—and Zen has also had a profound... Read more >
Zen Poems
Edited by Peter Harris
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: March 23, 1999
Price: $13.50
ISBN: 978-0-375-40552-5 (0-375-40552-6)
The appreciation of Zen philosophy and art has become universal, and Zen poetry, with its simple expression of direct, intuitive insight and sudden enlightenment, appeals to lovers of poetry, spirituality, and beauty everywhere. This collection of translations of the classical Zen poets of China, Japan, and Korea includes the work of... Read more >
Edited by Peter Harris
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: March 23, 1999
Price: $13.50
ISBN: 978-0-375-40552-5 (0-375-40552-6)
The appreciation of Zen philosophy and art has become universal, and Zen poetry, with its simple expression of direct, intuitive insight and sudden enlightenment, appeals to lovers of poetry, spirituality, and beauty everywhere. This collection of translations of the classical Zen poets of China, Japan, and Korea includes the work of... Read more >
The Ink Dark Moon
Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Ja pan
Translated by Jane Hirshfield
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 3, 1990
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-72958-7 (0-679-72958-5)
One thousand years ago the Heian court of Imperial Japan was one of the most sophisticated cultures on earth. The literature of that classical age is the only one in which the predominant geniuses were women; among the foremost were the two translated in this volume. Ranging from the deeply erotic... Read more >
Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Ja pan
Translated by Jane Hirshfield
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 3, 1990
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-72958-7 (0-679-72958-5)
One thousand years ago the Heian court of Imperial Japan was one of the most sophisticated cultures on earth. The literature of that classical age is the only one in which the predominant geniuses were women; among the foremost were the two translated in this volume. Ranging from the deeply erotic... Read more >
An Artist of the Floating World
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 19, 1989
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-72266-3 (0-679-72266-1)
Ono, an artist who had put his work in the service of the imperialist movement that led Japan into World War II, struggles through the devastation of that war. His memories of his youth and of the "floating world"--the nocturnal realm of pleasure, entertainment, and drink--offer him both escape and redemption... Read more >
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 19, 1989
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-72266-3 (0-679-72266-1)
Ono, an artist who had put his work in the service of the imperialist movement that led Japan into World War II, struggles through the devastation of that war. His memories of his youth and of the "floating world"--the nocturnal realm of pleasure, entertainment, and drink--offer him both escape and redemption... Read more >
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Never Let Me Go
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 14, 2006
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7877-6 (1-4000-7877-6)
From the acclaimed author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, a moving new novel that subtly reimagines our world and time in a haunting story of friendship and love.
As a child, Kathy—now thirty-one years old—lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where... Read more >
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 14, 2006
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7877-6 (1-4000-7877-6)
From the acclaimed author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, a moving new novel that subtly reimagines our world and time in a haunting story of friendship and love.
As a child, Kathy—now thirty-one years old—lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where... Read more >
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Never Let Me Go
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: April 5, 2005
Price: $28.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4339-2 (1-4000-4339-5)
From the acclaimed author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, a moving new novel that subtly reimagines our world and time in a haunting story of friendship and love.
As a child, Kathy—now thirty-one years old—lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where... Read more >
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: April 5, 2005
Price: $28.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4339-2 (1-4000-4339-5)
From the acclaimed author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, a moving new novel that subtly reimagines our world and time in a haunting story of friendship and love.
As a child, Kathy—now thirty-one years old—lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where... Read more >
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unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
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trade paperback.
A Pale View of Hills
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 12, 1990
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-72267-0 (0-679-72267-X)
The highly acclaimed first novel by the author of The Remains of the Day and Artist of the Floating World, A Pale View of Hills is the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her eldest daughter. In a story where... Read more >
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 12, 1990
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-72267-0 (0-679-72267-X)
The highly acclaimed first novel by the author of The Remains of the Day and Artist of the Floating World, A Pale View of Hills is the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her eldest daughter. In a story where... Read more >
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The Remains of the Day
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 12, 1990
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73172-6 (0-679-73172-5)
Winner of the Booker Prize
The Remains of the Day is a profoundly compelling portrait of the perfect English butler and his fading, insular world in postwar England. At the end of his three decades of service at Darlington Hall, Stevens embarks on a country drive, during which he looks back over... Read more >
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 12, 1990
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73172-6 (0-679-73172-5)
Winner of the Booker Prize
The Remains of the Day is a profoundly compelling portrait of the perfect English butler and his fading, insular world in postwar England. At the end of his three decades of service at Darlington Hall, Stevens embarks on a country drive, during which he looks back over... Read more >
The Unconsoled
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 1, 1996
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-73587-8 (0-679-73587-9)
The Unconsoled is at once a gripping psychological mystery, a wicked satire of the cult of art, and a poignant character study of a man whose public life has accelerated beyond his control. The setting is a nameless Central European city where Ryder, a renowned pianist, has come to give the... Read more >
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 1, 1996
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-73587-8 (0-679-73587-9)
The Unconsoled is at once a gripping psychological mystery, a wicked satire of the cult of art, and a poignant character study of a man whose public life has accelerated beyond his control. The setting is a nameless Central European city where Ryder, a renowned pianist, has come to give the... Read more >
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When We Were Orphans
A Novel
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 30, 2001
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72440-4 (0-375-72440-0)
“When We Were Orphans will linger in the mind as an often fascinating, imaginative work of surpassing intelligence and taste.”—Joyce Carol Oates, Times Literary Supplement
From the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of Remains of the Day comes this stunning work of soaring imagination.
Renowned London dectective Christopher Banks was born in Shanghai... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 30, 2001
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72440-4 (0-375-72440-0)
“When We Were Orphans will linger in the mind as an often fascinating, imaginative work of surpassing intelligence and taste.”—Joyce Carol Oates, Times Literary Supplement
From the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of Remains of the Day comes this stunning work of soaring imagination.
Renowned London dectective Christopher Banks was born in Shanghai... Read more >
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