Kimono

5 best books like Kimono (Liza Dalby): Palm-of-the-Hand Stories, A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power, Dogs and Demons: Tales From the Dark Side of Modern Japan, Peter Camenzind, Japanese From Zero! 2: Proven Methods to Learn Japanese for Students and Professionals with integrated Workbook

Palm-of-the-Hand Stories

Author	Yasunari Kawabata
ISBN	0374530491

Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, the novelist Yasunari Kawabata felt the essence of his art was to be found not in his longer works but in a series of short stories--which he called "Palm-of-the-Hand Stories"--written over the span of his career. In them we find loneliness, love, and...

A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power

Author	Paul Fischer
ISBN	1250054265

"The 1978 abductions of the South Korean actress Choi-Eun-hee and her ex-husband, the director Shin Sang-ok, in Hong Kong is the true crime at the center of Paul Fischer's gripping and surprisingly timely new book."
-The New York Times

Before becoming the world's most notorious dictator,...

Dogs and Demons: Tales From the Dark Side of Modern Japan

Author	Alex Kerr
ISBN	0809039435

A surprising assessment of the failures and successes of modern Japan.

In Dogs and Demons, Alex Kerr chronicles the many facets of Japan's recent, and chronic, crises -- from the failure of its banks and pension funds to the decline of its once magnificent modern cinema. He is the first to give...

Peter Camenzind

Author	Hermann Hesse
ISBN	0312422636

Peter Camenzind, a young man from a Swiss mountain village, leaves his home and eagerly takes to the road in search of new experience. Traveling through Italy and France, Camenzind is increasingly disillusioned by the suffering he discovers around him; after failed romances and a tragic friendship,...

Japanese From Zero! 2: Proven Methods to Learn Japanese for Students and Professionals with integrated Workbook

Author	George Trombley
ISBN	0976998114

Japanese From Zero! is an innovative and integrated approach to learning Japanese developed by professional Japanese interpreter George Trombley and co-writer Yukari Takenaka. The lessons and techniques used in this series have been taught successfully for over fifteen years in classrooms throughout...