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A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding
- Location(s): Nagasaki, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern looking back
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 Amaterasu Takahashi has spent her life grieving for her daughter Yuko and grandson Hideo, who were victims of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945. Now a widow living...
Art Therapy: Japan: 100 Designs Colouring in and Relaxation
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Miscellaneous
Rediscover your creativity and let your imagination and senses unwind with these 100 exquisitely drawn illustrations. The culture, art and natural beauty of Japan inspired the likes of Van Gogh and Monet to create some of their best pieces...
- Location(s): Ryukyuan Islands, Arizona
- Genre(s): Dystopian
- Era(s): Future - 2035
‘So, where is he then, your dad?’ The world may be on a precipice but Sol, fresh from Tucson-desert rehab, finally has an answer to the question that has dogged her since childhood. And not a moment too soon....
- Location(s): Hiroshima, Japan, Onomichi, Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Flo is sick of Tokyo. Suffering from a crisis in confidence, she is stuck in a rut, her translation work has dried up and she’s in a relationship that’s run its course. That’s until she stumbles upon a mysterious...
Geisha: The Secret History of a Vanishing World
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Modern looking back
Ever since Westerners arrived in Japan, they have been intrigued by Japanese womanhood and, above all, the geisha. This fascination has spawned a wealth of extraordinary fictional creations, from Puccini’s Madame Butterfly to Arthur Golden’s Memoirs of a Geisha....
If Cats Disappeared From The World
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Our narrator’s days are numbered. Estranged from his family, living alone with only his cat Cabbage for company, he was unprepared for the doctor’s diagnosis that he has only months to live. But before he can set about tackling...
RAINY DAY RAMEN and the COSMIC PACHINKO
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction, Magical Realism
- Era(s): 2010
A delightfully debauched, spiritual quest through a hallucinatory Japan of cursed gaijin houses, seedy hostess bars, a Beatles-themed McDonalds, mysterious internet cafe denizens, and one seriously pissed off cat. After three years in Japan, Fred Buchanan is broke, unemployed...
- Location(s): Hiroshima
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
1995, Japan struggles with a severe economic crisis. Fate brings a number of people together in Hiroshima in a confrontation with dramatic consequences. Xavier Douterloigne, the son of a Belgian diplomat, returns to the city, where he spent his...
- Location(s): Tokyo, London, South Africa
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Contemporary
Takeout Sushi is a collection of 17 illustrated short stories set mostly in contemporary Japan that explore feelings of belonging, displacement, and the strangeness of everyday human interaction. In an innovative, fast-paced company, a man’s job comes under threat...
- Location(s): Kyoto
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Fictional dangers become real to American translator, Ruth Bennett, in this high-octane multicultural thriller. Recently returned to her childhood home in Kyoto, after losing her job in the United States-and her marriage-Ruth was hoping her new job would offer...
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