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Read this classic exploration of political violence, traditional samurai values and right wing nihilism. Isao is a young, engaging patriot, and a fanatical believer in the ancient samurai ethos. He turns terrorist, organising a violent plot against the new industrialists, who he believes are threatening the integrity…
A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call ’objectivity’. When the mother of one of them begins an affair with a ship’s officer, he and his friends idealise the man at first; but it…
’Life for sale. Use me as you wish. I am a twenty-seven-year-old male. Discretion guaranteed. Will cause no bother at all.’
When Hanio Yamada realises the future holds little of worth to him, he puts his life for sale in a Tokyo newspaper, thus unleashing a series of unimaginable exploits. A world of…
A haunting novella of fame and disillusionment by a Japanese literary iconAll eyes are upon Rikio. And he likes it, mostly. His fans cheer from a roped-off section, screaming and yelling to attract his attention.
They would kill for a moment alone with him. Finally the director sets up the shot, the camera begins to…
Noboru är ingen vanlig trettonåring. Inifrån en trång och mörk byrå observerar han med svartsjuk blick sammansmältningen av två kroppar. Det är hans vackra mor, änkan Fusako, och den tystlåtne och väderbitne sjömannen Ryuji som funnit kärleken hos varandra. Tillsammans med sina gängkompisar bestämmer sig Noboru för att…
The gripping story of an affair gone horribly wrong, from one of Japan’s greatest twentieth-century writers
Koji, a young student, has fallen hopelessly in love with the beautiful, enigmatic Yuko. But she is married to the literary critic and serial philanderer Ippei. Tormented by desire and anger, Koji is driven…
A beautiful hardback edition of a great Japanese classic, beautiful, lyrical and deeply ominous.
A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call ’objectivity’. When the mother of one of them…
’There is in this world a kind of desire like stinging pain’
A Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his male classmate. He imagines his body punctured with arrows, like the body of St Sebastian in the painting that obsesses him. Over and over again, each night in his private fantasies, the objects…
Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world’s greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith
Filled with rich description and luxurious beauty, these ten tales of loss and longing from one of Japan’s greatest writers…