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10 best books like The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa (Yasunari Kawabata): Floating Clouds, Inside and Other Short Fiction: Japanese Women by Japanese Women, On Parole, Scandal, The Paper Door and Other Stories, Crackling Mountain and Other Stories, The Word Book, The Cape and Other Stories from the Japanese Ghetto, The Gourmet Club, The Life of an Amorous Woman and Other Writings

Floating Clouds
AuthorFumiko Hayashi
ISBN0231136285
In this groundbreaking novel, Fumiko Hayashi tells the powerful story of tormented love and one woman's struggle to navigate the cruel realities of postwar Japan. The novel's characters, particularly its resilient heroine Koda Yukiko, find themselves trapped in their own drifting, unable to break...
Inside and Other Short Fiction: Japanese Women by Japanese Women
AuthorCathy Layne
ISBN4770030061
Inside and other short fiction showcases the very best of recent writing by Japanese women writers today-including prize-winning novelists and authors never before published in English-as they explore the issue of female identity in a rapidly changing society.
AMY YAMADA ("Fiesta"), widely...
On Parole
AuthorAkira Yoshimura
ISBN0156011476
After spending sixteen years in prison for a crime of the heart, Shiro Kikutani is released into a world he no longer recognizes. He must readjust to the bright and vigorous stimulus of Tokyo while fending off his own dark memories. In a spare yet powerful style, Akira Yoshimura paints the psychology...
Scandal
AuthorShūsaku Endō
ISBN0396093205
Involves a famous Catholic writer whose comfortable life is shattered when a drunken woman crashes a reception in his honor, claiming that he frequents the red-light district of Tokyo and that his portrait is exhibited in a gallery there. The result: his reputation as a writer, his marriage, and his...
The Paper Door and Other Stories
AuthorNaoya Shiga
ISBN0231121571
No modern Japanese writer was more idolized than Shiga Naoya. "The Paper Door and Other Stories" showcases the concise, delicate art of this writer who is often called "the god of the Japanese short story." Doyen of Japanese letters Donald Keene ranks some of Shiga's stories "among the most brilliant...
Crackling Mountain and Other Stories
AuthorOsamu Dazai
ISBN0804833427
Features 11 outstanding works by Osamu Dazai, widely regarded as one of 20th century Japan's most gifted writers and a master teller of tales. Dazai experimented with a wide variety of short story styles and brought to each a sophisticated sense of humor, a broad empathy for the human condition, and...
The Word Book
AuthorMieko Kanai
ISBN1564785661
Like the surfaces of a jagged crystal, each story in this collection shows an entirely different facet when viewed from a different angle. Playing games with the basic units of both life and fiction—the solid certainties of the self, the world around us, and the words we use to describe these things...
The Cape and Other Stories from the Japanese Ghetto
AuthorKenji Nakagami
ISBN1880656396
The fiction of Kenji Nakagami has no peer in contemporary Japan. Born into the burakumin -- an outcast class shunned in feudal Japan and still suffering discrimination today -- Nakagami depicts the lives of his people in powerful, sensual prose and stark, sometimes horrifying detail. The Cape is his...
The Gourmet Club
AuthorJun'ichirō Tanizaki
ISBN4770029721
The decadent tales in this dazzling collection span forty-five years in the extraordinary career of Japan's master storyteller, Jun'ichiro Tanizaki (1886-1965).

Tanizaki's major novels-Naomi, The Makioka Sisters, A Cat, a Man, and Two Women, and The Key, for example-have already appeared...
The Life of an Amorous Woman and Other Writings
AuthorSaikaku Ihara
ISBN0811201872
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One of the great writers of Japan, Ihara Saikaku (1623-93) wrote of the lowest class in the Tokugawa world — the townsmen who were rising in wealth and power but not in official status. The title story in this collection of 12 works, told by an aging beauty whose highly erotic nature...
The Broken Commandment
AuthorTōson Shimazaki
ISBN0860081915
Espeluznante, a la par que bellísima, imagen de uno de los lados de la sociedad nipona que menos nos gusta considerar: su clasismo y su racismo, representado en esta ocasión en el trato que se da a los "etas", o miembros de castas inferiores.
Toson, en la estela de Zola, nos da una visión de Japón...
Acts of Worship: Seven Stories
AuthorYukio Mishima
ISBN4770028938
When Mishima committed ritual suicide in November 1970, he was only forty-five. He had written over thirty novels, eighteen plays, and twenty volumes of short stories. During his lifetime, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize three times and had seen almost all of his major novels appear in English....
Vita Sexualis
AuthorŌgai Mori
ISBN0804810486
Though banned three weeks after its publication in 1909, Vita Sexualis is far more than a prurient erotic novel. The narrator, a professor of philosophy, wrestles with issues of sexual desire, sex education, and the proper place of sensuality. He tells the story of his own journey into sexual awareness,...
Child of Fortune
AuthorYūko Tsushima
ISBN4770015240
By conventional Japanese standards, Koko Mizuno is an abysmal
failure as woman, wife, and mother--and she couldn't care less. She has succeeded in remaining true to herself in a stubborn struggle against powerful conformist pressures. Yet her resistance is largely passive.Self-absorbed,...
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan
AuthorLafcadio Hearn
ISBN1604247487
"Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan" is a compilation of 27 sketches on Japanese culture, of which 10 appeared initially in publications such as the Atlantic Monthly intended for the general American public. The pieces are tremendously charming and cover a wide range of topics including Shinto, Buddhism...
To the Spring Equinox and Beyond
AuthorNatsume Sōseki
ISBN0804833281
Keitaro, giovane laureato, vive in una pensione. Trascorre le giornate portando lettere di presentazione per trovare lavoro e ascoltando le storie che gli racconta un altro ospite della pensione.
Sogna una vita di avventure e ascoltare quelle degli altri lo fa sentire più vicino al sogno.
L’ascolto...
Hiroshima Notes
AuthorKenzaburō Ōe
ISBN0802134645
Hiroshima Notes is a powerful statement on the Hiroshima bombing and its terrible legacy by the 1994 Nobel laureate for literature. Oe’s account of the lives of the many victims of Hiroshima and the valiant efforts of those who cared for them, both immediately after the atomic blast and in the years...
The Counterfeiter and Other Stories
AuthorYasushi Inoue
ISBN0804832528
3.5 stars. This little book of short stories is elegant and sweet. The stories aren't very captivating in themselves, but they way they are written is what keeps you captivated. The focus is introspective, mostly on thoughts, feelings, symbols, and themes. The beauty of the writing is shown in the intelligent...
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