Alienation, a recurring motif in the works of Murakami, is the central theme in this novel set in metropolitan Tokyo over the course of one night. Main characters include Mari, a 19-year-old studen...
Ryunosuke Akutagawa is regarded as the "Father of the Japanese short story", and is noted for his superb style and finely detailed stories that explore the darker side of human nature.
This fasci...
Previous books such as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Norwegian Wood have established Murakami as a true original, a fearless writer possessed of a wildly uninhibited imagination and a legion of fi...
The aricle deals with English women’s contribution to the building of the British Empire. Starting from two main figures of feminine Anglo-Indian fiction, Flora Annie Steel and Maud Diver, I will t...
This is Kawabata's last novel-and it is one of his finest works, a masterpiece of complexity and nuance rivaling Snow Country, Thousand Cranes, and The Sound of the Mountain, the novels that made h...
"A poetic meditation on the themes of sexuality and death." - Financial Times
"Revealing an astonishing honesty of vision." - Saturday Review
"One of the finest works of Kawabata's late career." - ...
Mekentosj BV has announced Papers 1.9, the Apple design award-winning application that helps scientists on the Mac manage their personal library of scientific articles. The free update brings over ...
This beautiful novel by one of Japan's most important writers is also one of the most strangely terrifying and memorable books you'll ever read. The Woman in the Dunes is the story of an amateur en...
Time magazine named it the best fiction novel of 2005 and included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.
The novel describes the childhood of a Kathy H., a youn...
The Remains of The Day is one of the most highly-regarded post-war British novels. It won the Booker Prize in 1989 for Best Fiction, and was later adapted into an Academy-Award nominated film, star...
Life and Times of Michael K won the Booker Prize in 1983.
In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him...
Allegorical novel by Salman Rushdie, published in 1981. It is a historical chronicle of modern India centering on the inextricably linked fates of two children born within the first hour of indepen...
The book won the Booker Prize in 2000 and the Hammett Prize in 2001.
Time Magazine named it the best fiction novel of 2000 and included it in its list of the 100 greatest English-language novels s...
In this searing novel first published in 1978, two young hoods, Harry and Tyrone, and a girlfriend fantasize about scoring a pound of heroin and getting rich. But their heroin habit gets the better...
A classic of modern literature for over 35 years, Naked Lunch is the unnerving tale of a narcotics addict's monumental descent into hell, as he travels from New York to Tangiers, and then into the ...