More than a thousand years ago, an extraordinary trove of early Buddhist sutras and other scriptures was secreted away in caves near the Silk Road city of Tun-huang. But who hid this magnificent treasure and why? In Tun-huang, the great modern Japanese novelist Yasushi Inoue tells the story of Chao Hsing-te, a young Chinese man whose accidental failure to take the all-important exam that will qualify him as a high government official leads to a chance encounter that draws him farther and farther into the wild and contested lands west of the Chinese Empire. Here he finds love, distinguishes himself in battle, and ultimately devotes himself to the strange task of depositing the scrolls in the caves where, many centuries later, they will be rediscovered. A book of magically vivid scenes, fierce passions, and astonishing adventures, Tun-huang is also a profound and stirring meditation on the mystery of history and the hidden presence of the past.

Product Description: Six stories in quest of the hidden treasures of Asia's past from Japanese historical fiction writer, Yasushi Inoue. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: A classic of Japanese literature, evoking the author's country childhood early in this century, set against the background of the beautiful Izu Peninsula. An accurate, beautiful translation."" - World Literature Today. ""Moy's warm translation makes it easy to understand why Shirobamba has remained popular in Japan since its initial publication in the early `60s...read more

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Letters written between two Japanese authors discuss their travels, experiences with sickness and death, memories of the past, and visions of the future

These three short stories, The Counterfeiter, Obasute, and The Full Moon, explore the roles of loneliness, compassion, beauty, and forgiveness in day-to-day life in Japan, all within the context of the Buddhist-influenced notion of inescapable predestination. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The Hunting Gun, set in the period immediately following WWII, follows the consequences of a tragic love affair among well-to-do people in an exclusive suburb of the great commercial cities of Osaka and Kobe. Told from the viewpoints of three different women, this is a story of the psychological impact of illicit love...read more