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Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in the real world, so when she takes on a job in a convenience store while at university, they are delighted for her. For her part, in the convenience store she finds a predictable world mandated by the store manual, which dictates how the workers should act and what they should say, and she copies her coworkers' style of dress and speech...
2) Grotesque
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
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The murders of two prostitutes in Tokyo allow an intimate look at the lives of girls and women in Japan.
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2002, 1989.
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English
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After she leaves India to live with her cousins in England, eight-year-old Nona is overcome with homesickness until her great-aunt sends two Japanese dolls which need love and care. Includes construction plans for a Japanese dollhouse.
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Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Hoping to outpace her grief in the wake of her father's suicide, Marina has come to the small, rural Japanese town of Shika to teach English for a year. But in Japan, as she soon discovers, you can never really throw away your past...or anything else, for that matter.
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Series
Lan xiao shuo volume 276
Pub. Date
2018
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Nine interconnected stories about residents living on the northern island of Hokkaido.
This book takes the background of the snow-capped Northland. Where people's fate has been decided from birth to life with no methods of escape. Many people there were described as a disqualified person as they were eager to seek of other's body in seeking a piece of warmth for their souls.
《皇家賓館》直木賞作家櫻木紫乃 渾身解數出道之作...
6) Yi chang
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Series
Ri ben chang xiao xiao shuo volume 31
Pub. Date
2021.03.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
How much I long for this world, how much I hate this world! A beautiful requiem dedicated to modern women, a pungent novel that criticizes class society "Time" and "Daily Telegraph" praise the long-selling crime classics in Britain, France, Germany, and righteousness. Beyond the "Heisei 30 good book" "OUT" society, the most controversial masterpiece of the dark queen, Arai 1, 2, 3. Special Article Guide, although the work of Natsuo Tongye is very...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. His attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high school, where he becomes a "clown" to mask his alienation, and eventually lead to a failed suicide attempt as an adult. Without sentimentality, he records the casual...
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