Otogizōshi: The Fairy Tale Book of Dazai Osamu
10 best books like Otogizōshi: The Fairy Tale Book of Dazai Osamu (Osamu Dazai): Thousand Cranes, Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination, Kokoro, The Three-Cornered World, Kamienie na szaniec, The Saint of Mt. Koya, Akademia Pana Kleksa, とつくにの少女 4 [Totsukuni no shōjo 4], Maintenant qu'il fait tout le temps nuit sur toi, Ricordi di un vicolo cieco
| Author | Yasunari Kawabata |
| ISBN | 0679762655 |
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Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata’s Thousand Cranes is a luminous story of desire, regret, and the almost sensual nostalgia that binds the living to the dead.
While attending a traditional tea ceremony in the aftermath of...
Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination
| Author | Edogawa Rampo |
| ISBN | 0804803196 |
Edogowa Rampo--just say his pen name quickly three times to discover how much he loved Edgar Allen Poe--is considered the first and foremost writer of Japanese mystery fiction. He is also much more.
His stories, structured as popular "entertainments," are designed to convey all the...
| Author | Natsume Sōseki |
| ISBN | 0809260956 |
A languid, melancholic dream of a novel which pierces the heart of the reader with its quiet intensity.
Cautious in its narrative tread on the ground of contentious issues, delicate in its broaching of subjects like the indignity of death, sin and redemption, existentialist ennui, self-recrimination...
| Author | Natsume Sōseki |
| ISBN | 0720611563 |
"An artist abandons city life to wander into the mountains to meditate, but when he decides to stay at a near-deserted inn he soon finds himself drawn to the daughter of the innkeeper. This strange and beautiful woman is rumoured to have abandoned her husband and fallen in love with a priest at a nearby...
| Author | Aleksander Kamiński |
| ISBN | 8310108893 |
Kamienie na szaniec – utwór-dokument (literatura faktu) autorstwa Aleksandra Kamińskiego szczegółowo relacjonujący przebieg oraz metody walki członków Małego Sabotażu i dywersji w pierwszych latach II wojny światowej[2]. Oparta jest na autentycznych wydarzeniach z okresu...
During a fine journey, the narrator happened to meet a priest, Shūchō. They started to talk and then decided to stay at an inn. Since the man had trouble dealing with the night and was never able to sleep until late, he asked the priest to tell him a story. And so he did. The story includes another journey...
Jest to pierwsza część baśniowej trylogii Jana Brzechwy, arcydzieło, do przeczytania którego nikogo nie trzeba zachęcać. Tytułową Akademię, położoną w ogromnym parku pełnym jarów i wąwozów, otacza wysoki mur, w którym jedna obok drugiej mieszczą się żelazne furtki,...
とつくにの少女 4 [Totsukuni no shōjo 4]
| Author | Nagabe |
| ISBN | 4800007208 |
Volume 4 of this fantasy/horror series, A Fate Worse than Death, featuring Shiva, Teacher, and Auntie and more backstory about the world and its history are revealed even as we move forward with the story in the present. Back and forth, back and forth. It’s as much a story of gradual uncovering as it...
Maintenant qu'il fait tout le temps nuit sur toi
| Author | Mathias Malzieu |
| ISBN | 2080688189 |
Mathias, un jeune homme d'une trentaine d'années, vient de perdre sa mère. Sur le parking de l'hôpital, il rencontre un géant qui l'aide à accepter de vivre malgré cette disparition et l'invite à un voyage fantastique dans le pays des morts. Cette évasion dans l'imaginaire lui permettra de...
Ricordi di un vicolo cieco
| Author | Banana Yoshimoto |
| ISBN | 8807701774 |
Cinque racconti per cinque personaggi che, in seguito a eventi improvvisi e dolorosi, si interrogano sul significato della propria vita e sulla possibilità di essere felici. Nel primo racconto, intitolato La casa degli spiriti, due compagni di università, Setsuko e Iwakura, sono legati da un...
