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My Annihilation

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What transforms a person into a killer? Could it be something as small as a suggestion?Turn this page, and you may forfeit your entire life.With My Annihilation, Fuminori Nakamura, master of literary noir, has constructed a puzzle box of a narrative in the form of a confessional diary that implicates its reader in a heinous crime. Delving relentlessly into the darkestcorners of human consciousness ... Read more

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What transforms a person into a killer? Could it be something as small as a suggestion?Turn this page, and you may forfeit your entire life.With My Annihilation, Fuminori Nakamura, master of literary noir, has constructed a puzzle box of a narrative in the form of a confessional diary that implicates its reader in a heinous crime. Delving relentlessly into the darkestcorners of human consciousness
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From the bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs and international literary sensation Mieko Kawakami comes a sharp and illuminating novel about the impact of violence and the power of solidarity in our contemporary societies.Hailed as a bold foray into new literary territory, Kawakami’s novel is told in the voice of a fourteen-year-old student subjected to relentless torment for having a lazy eye. ... Read more

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From the bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs and international literary sensation Mieko Kawakami comes a sharp and illuminating novel about the impact of violence and the power of solidarity in our contemporary societies.Hailed as a bold foray into new literary territory, Kawakami’s novel is told in the voice of a fourteen-year-old student subjected to relentless torment for having a lazy eye.
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Breasts and Eggs

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The story of three women by a writer hailed by Haruki Murakami as Japan’s most important contemporary novelist.Challenging every preconception about storytelling and prose style, mixing wry humor and riveting emotional depth, Kawakami is today one of Japan’s most important and bestselling writers. She exploded onto the cultural scene first as a musician, then as a poet and popular blogger, and is ... Read more

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The story of three women by a writer hailed by Haruki Murakami as Japan’s most important contemporary novelist.Challenging every preconception about storytelling and prose style, mixing wry humor and riveting emotional depth, Kawakami is today one of Japan’s most important and bestselling writers. She exploded onto the cultural scene first as a musician, then as a poet and popular blogger, and is
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All the Lovers in the Night

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The bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs, Mieko Kawakami invites listeners back into her immediately recognizable fictional world with this new, extraordinary novel and demonstrates yet again why she is one of today’s most uncategorizable, insightful, and talented novelists.Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copyeditor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone in a city where it is not easy to form ... Read more

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The bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs, Mieko Kawakami invites listeners back into her immediately recognizable fictional world with this new, extraordinary novel and demonstrates yet again why she is one of today’s most uncategorizable, insightful, and talented novelists.Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copyeditor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone in a city where it is not easy to form
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Music Sets You Free

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A bestseller in Japan, a remarkable reflection on making art, living life, and accepting death, from the legendary Ryuichi Sakamoto, the world-renowned musical genius and godfather of electronic music.One of Japan's most influential artists and composers, Ryuichi Sakamoto was a man of multitudes. Perhaps best known as the Oscar-winning composer of Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor and a ... Read more

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A bestseller in Japan, a remarkable reflection on making art, living life, and accepting death, from the legendary Ryuichi Sakamoto, the world-renowned musical genius and godfather of electronic music.One of Japan's most influential artists and composers, Ryuichi Sakamoto was a man of multitudes. Perhaps best known as the Oscar-winning composer of Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor and a
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Music Sets You Free

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A bestseller in Japan, a remarkable reflection on making art, living life, and accepting death, from the legendary Ryuichi Sakamoto, the world-renowned musical genius and godfather of electronic music.One of Japan's most influential artists and composers, Ryuichi Sakamoto was a man of multitudes. Perhaps best known as the Oscar-winning composer of Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor and a ... Read more

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A bestseller in Japan, a remarkable reflection on making art, living life, and accepting death, from the legendary Ryuichi Sakamoto, the world-renowned musical genius and godfather of electronic music.One of Japan's most influential artists and composers, Ryuichi Sakamoto was a man of multitudes. Perhaps best known as the Oscar-winning composer of Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor and a
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The Woman, the Boy, and the Whale

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**THE MILLION-COPY JAPANESE BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE JAPAN BOOKSELLERS' AWARDMADE INTO AN AWARD-NOMINATED FILM"As heartbreaking as it is heart-filling, a stunning story about a universal truth: we all long to be heard. And if we’re lucky, we find a soulmate—sometimes in the place we least expect—who can truly hear us." —Heather Aimee O'Neill, author of Read with Jenna Book Club pick The Irish ... Read more

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**THE MILLION-COPY JAPANESE BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE JAPAN BOOKSELLERS' AWARDMADE INTO AN AWARD-NOMINATED FILM"As heartbreaking as it is heart-filling, a stunning story about a universal truth: we all long to be heard. And if we’re lucky, we find a soulmate—sometimes in the place we least expect—who can truly hear us." —Heather Aimee O'Neill, author of Read with Jenna Book Club pick The Irish
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Terminal Boredom

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by Izumi Suzuki ...

Translated by Polly Barton, Sam Bett, David Boyd, Daniel Joseph ...

**Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Thrillist, The Millions, Frieze, and Metropolis JapanThe first English language publication of the work of Izumi Suzuki, a legend of Japanese science fiction and a countercultural icon**At turns nonchalantly hip and charmingly deranged, Suzuki's singular slant on speculative fiction would be echoed in countless later works, from Margaret Atwood and Harumi ... Read more

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**Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Thrillist, The Millions, Frieze, and Metropolis JapanThe first English language publication of the work of Izumi Suzuki, a legend of Japanese science fiction and a countercultural icon**At turns nonchalantly hip and charmingly deranged, Suzuki's singular slant on speculative fiction would be echoed in countless later works, from Margaret Atwood and Harumi
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My Annihilation

by Fuminori Nakamura ...

Translated by Sam Bett ...

What transforms a person into a killer? Can it be something as small as a suggestion?Turn this page, and you may forfeit your entire life.With My Annihilation, Fuminori Nakamura, master of literary noir, has constructed a puzzle box of a narrative in the form of a confessional diary that implicates its reader in a heinous crime.Delving relentlessly into the darkest corners of human consciousness, ... Read more

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What transforms a person into a killer? Can it be something as small as a suggestion?Turn this page, and you may forfeit your entire life.With My Annihilation, Fuminori Nakamura, master of literary noir, has constructed a puzzle box of a narrative in the form of a confessional diary that implicates its reader in a heinous crime.Delving relentlessly into the darkest corners of human consciousness,
... Read more

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The Rope Artist

by Fuminori Nakamura ...

Translated by Sam Bett ...

The aftermath of the murder of a bondage teacher reveals the darkest corners of the human mind in this chilling new mystery from the master of Japanese literary noir.Two detectives. Two identical women. One dead body— then two, then three, then four. All knotted up in Japan’s underground BDSM scene and kinbaku, a form of rope bondage which bears a complex cultural history of spirituality, torture, ... Read more

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The aftermath of the murder of a bondage teacher reveals the darkest corners of the human mind in this chilling new mystery from the master of Japanese literary noir.Two detectives. Two identical women. One dead body— then two, then three, then four. All knotted up in Japan’s underground BDSM scene and kinbaku, a form of rope bondage which bears a complex cultural history of spirituality, torture,
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The Phoenix

by Osamu Dazai ...

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From the bestselling cult author, Osamu Dazai, a familiar theme with an unfamiliar twist: a lover’s suicide pact—but this time the woman livesSachiyo Takano, a charismatic young woman, travels from the countryside to a bustling prewar Tokyo, where she meets an irresistible stranger. They spend the night together, but things go sideways and never quite straighten out. Sachiyo wakes up in a hotel ... Read more

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From the bestselling cult author, Osamu Dazai, a familiar theme with an unfamiliar twist: a lover’s suicide pact—but this time the woman livesSachiyo Takano, a charismatic young woman, travels from the countryside to a bustling prewar Tokyo, where she meets an irresistible stranger. They spend the night together, but things go sideways and never quite straighten out. Sachiyo wakes up in a hotel
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Sun & Steel

by Yukio Mishima ...

Translated by Sam Bett ...

Mishima’s essential text on the aesthetics of the bodyIn this endlessly fascinating essay—part bildungsroman, part treatise—from one of Japanese’s most celebrated and controversial modern writers, we witness the transformation of Yukio Mishima from a bookish teenager who avoided fighting in WWII, to a bodybuilder, a warrior, and a writer soaring at the heights of fame in postwar Japan, who ... Read more

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Mishima’s essential text on the aesthetics of the bodyIn this endlessly fascinating essay—part bildungsroman, part treatise—from one of Japanese’s most celebrated and controversial modern writers, we witness the transformation of Yukio Mishima from a bookish teenager who avoided fighting in WWII, to a bodybuilder, a warrior, and a writer soaring at the heights of fame in postwar Japan, who
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