Diary of a Mad Old Man
8 best books like Diary of a Mad Old Man (Jun'ichirō Tanizaki): Thousand Cranes, Snow Country, Kokoro, The Sound of the Mountain, The Lake, The Wild Geese, The Hunting Gun, Kappa
Thousand Cranes
| Author | Yasunari Kawabata |
| ISBN | 0679762655 |
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...
Snow Country
| Author | Yasunari Kawabata |
| ISBN | 0679761047 |
At an isolated mountain hot spring, with snow blanketing every surface, Shimamura, a wealthy dilettante...
Kokoro
| Author | Natsume Sōseki |
| ISBN | 0809260956 |
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 | Yasunari Kawabata |
| ISBN | 0679762647 |
Ogata Shingo is growing old, and his memory is failing him. At night he hears only the sound of death in the distant rumble from the mountain. The relationships which have previously defined his life - with his son, his wife, and his attractive...
The Lake
| Author | Yasunari Kawabata |
| ISBN | 4770030010 |
The Lake is the history of an obsession. It traces a man's sad pursuit of an unattainable perfection, a beauty out of reach, admired from a distance, unconsummated. Homeless, a fugitive from an ambiguous...
| Author | Ōgai Mori |
| ISBN | 0804810702 |
It was a nice, simple read. I wish the storyline had been developed a little bit more thoroughly and I didn’t like the ambiguity of the ending. Books like this always surprise me, how women can be used as pawns. In this case, a young girl has been chosen by a well-off Japanese man to be...
The Hunting Gun
| Author | Yasushi Inoue |
| ISBN | 0804802572 |
The Hunting Gun, set in the period immediately following WWII, follows the consequences of a tragic love affair among well-to-do people in an exclusive suburb of the great commercial cities of Osaka and Kobe. Told from the viewpoints of three different women,...
Kappa
| Author | Ryūnosuke Akutagawa |
What’s a Kappa? It’s a scaly,...