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Yoshida Shuichi was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1968. He is the author of nine books and has won many Japanese literary awards, including the prestigious Osaragi Jiro Prize and the Mainichi Publishing Culture Award, both of which he received for Villain. Several of his short stories have been adapted for Japanese television. He lives in Tokyo.
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Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: March 14, 2000
Price: $14.00
In South of the Border, West of the Sun, the simple arc of a man's life--with its attendant rhythms of success and disappointment--becomes the exquisite literary terrain of Haruki Murakami's most haunting work.
Born in 1951 in an affluent Tokyo suburb, Hajime--beginning in Japanese--has arrived at middle age wanting for almost... Read more >
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Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: July 29, 2008
Price: $21.00
In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he’d completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, not to mention triathlons and a dozen critically acclaimed books, he reflects upon the... Read more >
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Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: July 15, 2008
Price: $23.95
A stunning new work of the feminist noir that Natsuo Kirino defined and made her own in her novels Out and Grotesque.
In a crowded residential suburb on the outskirts of Tokyo, four teenage girls indifferently wade their way through a hot, smoggy summer and endless “cram school” sessions meant to ensure... Read more >
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Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: July 13, 2010
Price: $25.95
The first novel to be translated into English from one of Japan’s rising literary stars; a tale of murder and desperation set in a desolate seaside town, in online chat rooms and love hotels—with a cast of characters all pushed to the razor’s edge.
January 6, 2002. The body of a... Read more >
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: July 13, 2010
Price: $25.95
The first novel to be translated into English from one of Japan’s rising literary stars; a tale of murder and desperation set in a desolate seaside town, in online chat rooms and love hotels—with a cast of characters all pushed to the razor’s edge.
January 6, 2002. The body of a... Read more >
