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The son of a poor rural priest becomes an acolyte at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion. Mizoguchi had built up an image of ideal beauty in his mind based on this Golden Pavilion; this ideal image causes him to feel disappointed in any supposed form of beauty, even the actual phy…
Redoubtable middle-aged Kazu falls hopelessly in love with Yuken Noguchi, idealist politician of the Radical Party. The problem is, Noguchi cannot see practical politics for what it is: a form of ideological prostitution. Kazu, who has come up in the world the hard way, bears no…
Story about two thirty-five year old women - one a housewife and mother, and the other an unmarried company president - and their unlikely friendship.
Story about two thirty-five year old women - one a housewife and mother, and the other an unmarried company president - and their unlikely friendship.
The classic samurai novel about the real exploits of the most famous swordsman.
The classic samurai novel about the real exploits of the most famous swordsman.
A boy called H: a childhood in wartime Japan
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This autobiographical novel follows the fortunes of a boy, and of a nation, from the fateful prewar 1930s to the early postwar period.
A boy called H: a childhood in wartime Japan
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Type: Book
"This fictionalized autobiography ... recreates the boyhood years of the eponymous H or Hajime Senoh. The Senohs, a Kobe family of modest means, were distinguised by their Christian faith and their extensive contact with foreigners ... Precocious, inquisitive, and irreverent, H …
This autobiographical novel follows the fortunes of a boy, and of a nation, from the fateful prewar 1930s to the early postwar period.