Books set in Japan (231)


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51.

El Templo del Alba by Yukio Mishima ES

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Asia / Japan flag Japan
Description:
Considerada como el testamento ideológico y literario de Yukio Mishima (1925-1970), «El mar de la fertilidad» es una tetralogía en la que el autor abarca a través de su inconfundible mundo narrativo la evolución del Japón desde comienzos del siglo xx hasta los años1970, expresando su rebeldía contra una sociedad que él consideraba sumida en la decadencia moral y espiritual. Obra transida de espiritualidad oriental a la vez que malévolo retrato del Japón posterior a la Segunda Guerra Mundial, EL TEMPLO DEL ALBA (1970) es una novela que, como las del resto de la serie, participa de un torrente d... continue

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ENCUENTROS SECRETOS by Kobo Abe ES

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Japan flag Japan
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Kobo Abe nos presenta una surrealista y psicodélica historia en esta obra. Una noche una ambulancia llega a la casa del protagonista de la novela y se lleva a su mujer sin que esta presente síntomas de estar enferma. El hombre va a buscarla y descubre un hospital que es tan grande como una ciudad, se pierde en sus pasillos y descubre extraños personajes y demenciales experimentos sexuales.

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Estupor y temblores by Amélie Nothomb ES

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Belgium flag Belgium
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Esta novela de inspiración autobiográfica, que ha obtenido un enorme éxito en Francia, cuenta la historia de una joven belga que empieza a trabajar en Tokio en una gran compañía japonesa. Pero en el Japón actual, fuertemente jerarquizado, la joven tiene e

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Fifty Words for Rain : A Novel by Asha Lemmie EN

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A Good Morning America Book Club Pick and New York Times Bestseller! From debut author Asha Lemmie, “a lovely, heartrending story about love and loss, prejudice and pain, and the sometimes dangerous, always durable ties that link a family together.” —Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Nightingale Kyoto, Japan, 1948. “Do not question. Do not fight. Do not resist.” Such is eight-year-old Noriko “Nori” Kamiza’s first lesson. She will not question why her mother abandoned her with only these final words. She will not fight her confinement to the attic of her grandparents’ ... continue


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Formosan Vampire : From the Chronicles of Seth Ardelean the Cro-magnon Vampire by Amadeus Rockefeller EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Japan flag Japan
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The Award Winning epic novel about the life of a 42,000 year old Cro-Magnon man who became a vampire king and ruled the most fearsome empire in history. In the shadowy depths of Taiwan's infamous Lyudao Island Prison, a figure shrouded in enigma and terror awaits his fate on death row. Known to a few as Seth, the formidable leader of the Dark Order, a clandestine legion of vampires, this entity's true identity remains a mystery. Why would a being of such power and darkness willingly surrender to mortal chains? It isn't until Eunice Wang, a tenacious young paralegal, steps into the cell of this... continue

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Fox Tales by Tomihiko Morimi EN

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Country: Asia / Japan flag Japan
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A collection of four spooky tales for the modern era, all tied to a certain Kyoto curio shop. A basket wriggles, a masked man lingers in the dark, and things are offered, lost, and forgotten. What mysteries lie hidden in the city's winding streets? Tomihiko Morimi offers a stylish glimpse into the beguiling and mysterious darkness of the old capital.

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Geisha : A Life by Mineko Iwasaki EN

Rating: 4.5 (3 votes)
Country: Asia / Japan flag Japan
Description:
A Kyoto geisha describes her initiation into an okiya at the age of four, the intricate training that made up most of her education, her successful career, and the traditions surrounding the geisha culture.

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Ghosts by Morio Kita EN

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Country: Asia / Japan flag Japan
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A pattern on a carpet; a red cocktail cherry; hide-and-seek in the dark; gravestones; a waterfall; a silver butterfly; a sister's death; a botched drawing; the sound of a flute.... Ghosts is a novel about the quest for a lost childhood, of which only fragments like these remain. Memory is focused like a magnifying glass on these clues to one man's past. Small, commonplace things are thus enhanced, and even simple events--relaxing in a bath, or flying a kite, or being unable to whistle--take on the same kind of aura that more dramatic ones have. In trying to remember, the narrator lea... continue

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Go For It, Nakamura!! by Syundei EN

Rating: 3 (2 votes)
Country: Asia / Japan flag Japan
Description:
Nakamura loves a boy in his class--now he just has to keep himself together! Nakamura is a shy boy who falls in love at first sight with another boy--his dreamy high school classmate Hirose. But there's a problem: they haven’t met yet. And Nakamura is a total klutz who might bungle things before they even begin! In this endearing Boy’s Love comedy about the trials of high school, follow Nakamura’s hilarious attempts to cling to happiness.