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Product Description: Natsume Soseki's only coming-of-age novel, Sanshiro depicts the eponymous twenty-three-year-old protagonist as he leaves the sleepy countryside to attend a university in the constantly moving "real world" of Tokyo. Baffled and excited by the traffic, the academics, and-most of all-the women, Sanshiro must find his way among the sophisticates that fill his new life...read more

A collection of stories inspired by the January 1995 Kobe earthquake and poison gas subway attacks two months later takes place between the two disasters and follows the experiences of people who found their resolutely normal lives undone by surreal events. 25,000 first printing.

Written by Ryunosuke Akutagawa - one of Japan's foremost stylists and a modernist master whose short stories are marked by imagery, cynicism, beauty, and wild humour. His other works include: 'Rashomon'; 'In a Bamboo Grove'; 'The Nose'; 'O-Gin'; 'Loyalty'; 'Death Register'; 'The Life of a Stupid Man'; and 'Spinning Gears'.

Product Description: Toru Okada's cat has disappeared and this has unsettled his wife, who is herself growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has started receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague, blameless life are turned inside out, and he embarks on a bizarre journey, guided (however obscurely) by a succession of characters, each with a tale to tell...read more

Product Description: The Miner is the most daringly experimental and least well known novel of the great Meiji novelist Natsume Soseki. An absurdist novel about the indeterminate nature of human personality, The Miner, written in 1908, was in many was a precursor to the now-infamous work of Joyce and Beckett...read more